Paul Hawken on Earth New Operating System
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
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Check out the Poodwaddle Clocks
Look at the stats at the world clock here http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
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11, 2009
Amazing 3D Mandelbulb Images
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
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Ecocities Emerging
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 [...]
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11, 2009
Green Building Standard in Cascadia
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 [...]
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Jim Garrison and Emilia Queiroga Announce Brazil Climate Change Commitments
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 [...]
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08, 2009
A Fountain of Evolutionary Insights for Mayors and Public Officials
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 [...]
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A Convergence of Capabilities
As we travel our journeys of purpose, on purpose, with purpose, it is so comforting to know that others are doing the same. It releases the burden (and hubris) of thinking that you have to do it all. Today I am thinking of four events going on in the world simultaneously in four different cities and three different [...]
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07, 2009
The Change the World Needs Now!!
I just returned from two weeks in Europe, designing the Renaissance2 Great Shift Conference in Perpignan France for October 22-26; and workshopping Integral City in the Netherlands with Centre for Human Emergence NL, EnlightenNext NL, The Hub, the Integral Institute for Sustainability and Danslab. Europe is in a much more positive frame of mind than [...]
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05, 2009
Are Forbes 10 Best Places the Most Eco-Sustainable?
Forbes has just published an interesting list of the 10 Best Places to Live. Below is how they describe their criteria and selection process. It is interesting to contemplate whether "Best Places" can measure up to "most sustainable places". It strikes me that these are beautiful and inspiring places, and I wonder if they are economically [...]