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 [...]
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 [...]
This article illustrates the twelve intelligences identified in Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive (Hamilton, 2008) through the work of architect Teddy Cruz. The author discusses Cruz’s socially responsible architectural practice in terms of each intelligence and demonstrates how he transcends and includes traditional, modern and post modern mindsets into an integral evolutionary paradigm.