Hilary O’Shaughnessy on the Playable City
For us a Playable City is specifically a human-led response to challenges for cities that are using technology in a way that connects people to each other.
Rob Hopkins
The World is Hot, on Fire, and Flooding. Climate Change is Here.
These are striking examples of climate change playing out in its deadliest forms, and they’re making the term “natural disaster” an outdated concept.
Free Public Transport and the Right to the City
The benefits of free public transport (FPT) are much more holistic than the atomized, privatized means of transportation that dominates the contemporary streets, and can contribute to the creation of democratic and ecological cities…
Accidentally-Released Documents Show Interior Agency Prioritized Industry Over Public Lands
Documents released by the Department of the Interior — and then retracted a day later — reveal that agency officials dismissed evidence that public lands provide numerous benefits in favor of prioritizing fossil fuel interests, along with ranching and logging.
Grow Your Own Curry at Horton Community Farm
Horton Community Farm is an oasis of green tucked within a side-road off one of bustling Bradford’s busy roads. After a breathless, up-hill walk, entering the green land calms the heart and opens the senses.
First Nations Take on Canadian Government to Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline
Saturday’s rally was only the latest manifestation of the indigenous-led resistance to the Trans Mountain project, which has grown in size and boldness this year.
How the Ultra-Rich Can Help Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis
Municipalities should move quickly to enact high-end real estate transfer taxes, requirements for the disclosure of beneficial ownership, and regulations aimed at the disruptive impact absentee owner-investors are having on our cities.
Meet the Young Refugee behind Zero Hour’s Climate Platform
Majuto is the main author of the Zero Hour platform, the core set of the marchers’ demands. Hundreds of people — many of them young — braved the weather to attend the national march, while others gathered for sister marches all around the country. These Gen-Zers want action on climate change, and they want it now.
Money Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Buy Happiness: Producers, Consumers, and the Consumptive Mindset
Copiously, ludicrously, we deface our lands, displace our brother hawks and sister mice, and destroy our links to the ecological communities that fabric our very being. Life is consumption, and, I suppose, consumption is life. But we have strayed so far from whence we came.
Now More than Ever, Scientists Need to Communicate Better. Here’s How.
In today’s world of nonstop information, the risk of research remaining obscure is greater than ever. One of the ironies of the computer era is that each innovation for better communication has simply led to more buzz and more difficulty being heard.
Positive, Negative and Neutral Design
To me the most successful approach lies in using the most weakly positive approaches to enhancing plant growth to maximise the effectiveness of limited resources, then applying negative design to shape the vegetation across the landscape.
Peak Oil Review 23 July 2018
The $3 drop in US oil prices last Monday was a signal that the forces moving the oil market are changing. Last year, the main forces pushing the oil markets higher were the agreement by OPEC and its partners to lower production and the growth of global demand.
