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 [...]
The Story of Stuff, is Annie Leonard’s impassioned plea for people to understand that the Earth is a closed system. That the cycle of harvesting/pillaging natural resources; manufacuturing; distributing; using; trashing is an ignorant failure to understand the natural cycles of life on earth. That the trash is going nowhere, and it is time [...]
Integral health is emerging in Vancouver, BC in the Inspire Health Integrated Cancer Care clinic. Check it out at http://www.inspirehealth.ca/ . This service was started 11 years ago by Dr. Hal Gunn and co-founders. It has now served over 5000 patients directly and through the "prescriptions" by which every doctor in BC can refer their patients to Inspire [...]
Tom Brokaw's op ed on small town spending suggests that if the private sector organization GM is going to be reinvented , then what is sauce for the industrial goose is sauce for the government gander. He proposes that major savings can be achieved by reconfiguring and recombining multiple small town and county services. The interesting aspect of [...]
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.