Fast and Vigil for Courage in Copenhagen: December 7 to 18 2009 Factsheet: Copenhagen, Canada and the Climate Crisis Why Are The Climate Talks In Copenhagen So Important? These talks are meant to produce a treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the first international agreement to fight global warming, which expires in 2012. Not every [...]
Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network (of www.iisd.ca) has just reported this oped on the use of GRI reporting from the mining industry. However it would seem likely the lessons could apply to any sector. I wonder how it opens up the natural evolution from the triple bottom line to the quadruple (integral) bottom line?? ===== Mehrdad [...]
Globe Award 2010 – Leading Sustainability Awards Sustainable cities can be nominated for international award STOCKHOLM, NOVEMBER 23, 2009: Globe Awards will be presented for the fourth consecutive time at the annual gala at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm April 29th, 2010. The applications will be viewed in four categories: research, innovation, city and reporting. The [...]
You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring Wed, 2009-06-03 17:55 — Healing or Stealing? The Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009
Look at the stats at the world clock here http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
In thinking about cities as meshworks with fractal capacities -- or fractals with meshwork qualities it's amazing to see the new 3D Mandelbulb images that hint for me of the archtecture of the human hive. Check it out here http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders
From the Eco-Cities Emerging Newsletter November 14, 2009: Greetings, Welcome to the mid November 2009 edition of Ecocities Emerging, an initiative of Ecocity Builders and the International Ecocity Conference Series. I'd like to share something inspiring that just happened. I had dinner with a man who saved the world! No exaggeration. Proves it can be [...]
New Standard Addresses Social Justice, Urban Agriculture and Community Scale Impacts Download the challenge 2.0: www.ilbi.org (International Living Building Institute) Story: http://www.cityfarmer.info/?p=2643(Phoenix, AZ) Nov. 10, 2009 The newest iteration of the Living Building Challenge was released today at Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference. The International Living Building Institute (ILBI), in conjunction [...]
This is just in from State of World Forum Leaders on Brazilian commitment to gold standard of climate change: BRAZIL AS CLIMATE LEADER – DO THE MATH As the world prepares for Copenhagen, there is a vacuum in climate leadership, which Brazil has just filled. The combination of its commitment to reduce Amazonian deforestation by [...]
I feel like I am standing in the centre of an Integral City Square with a Fountain of Integral Insights spraying life-giving rainbows that can refresh a mayor's way of thinking in these hot fires of summer. Not surprisingly, this fountain I see, has four quadrants -- all issuing flows of emerging wisdom that seem to be tapping a deep [...]