Category: Envisioning the sustainable future
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The sustainable city of Porena: THE VIDEO
This is the video based on the novel “Inventing for the Sustainable Planet”
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Story from the future: City without cars
Summer, 2029: Taking a walk around the sustainable city of Porena is like taking a step back in time. Porena is the first city to go sustainable and car-less. Now most cities are walking cities, thanks to the peaking of oil production. As I walk around the city, it is hard to imagine how bold…
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Video envisioning: Units of Trust
Imagine it were possible to, instead of just consuming, invest your money in local sustainable enterprises. As long as your money is with these enterprises, they provide you with your daily needs at a lower cost. You would need to work less and less as time goes on, with more time over to do what…
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Going for a bigger blog
Regular readers may know that I have kept work on INVENTING separate from my consulting work with A Very Beautiful Place. Recently, realised that the two really do fit well together so I’m migrating my main blogging over to AVBP.net I came to the realisation that peace and sustainable development go hand in hand. And…
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Connecting peace and sustainable development
Sometimes I can’t get things out of my head. It felt like a long shot, but as I stepped onto the plane to Berlin to attend a Words of Peace conference with Prem Rawat, I couldn’t ignore my intuition telling me that peace and sustainable development were linked somehow and that maybe the journey and…
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The Sustainable City of Porena
The sustainable city of Porena is the result of about 15-20 Imagestreaming sessions . I had asked a simple question: “what would a sustainable society, with the knowledge we possess today, look like?”
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Today is the first day
This is the 0.05 version of the new AVBP website. We will be updating it as we go along over the next few day. Be sure to come back, It’s going to be Awesome!
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WHY DON’T THEY GET IT?
At the last meeting of our Oil Awareness group, one concern seemed to be shared by everyone present: ”why don’t they get it?”. What members are referring to is the feeling that colleagues, government, officers of authorities just don’t seem to ”get” the significance of1) the vast amounts of energy we are using to sustain…
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Sustainable development and volunteerism
It has been striking me more and more recently how the positive developments in sustainability are coming from a spirit of volunteering. ”Going along” is a central theme of my book, ”Inventing for the Sustainable Planet”. The book was imagestreamed and insights can take a long time to sink in. I see how I have…
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Phosphorous: the key to sustainable agriculture
Find more videos like this on TRANSITION UNITED STATES We present a second version of a film on sustainable agriculture. Just for you.