Category: Envisioning the sustainable future

In this edition, we meet a design for a community center that cleans water, creates carbon minus soil improvement, recycles nutrients, grows food, captures solar energy…. and you shower and go to the loo! A MUST READ for all sustainability fanatics! Click on the picture or here to read it!.

As populations grow, and less and less oil is being found, the fossil fuel-dependent global supply chains and the banking system that supports them are becoming less functional. Relocalizing production and sales of daily needs reduces fuel dependence, waste, and increases local employment and community resilience. However, today’s financial system is more geared to large…

Finally I understand what I need to do to help sustainable development. It’s is all about the stories we tell ourselves. We need to find, envision, invent our future and it starts inside us. What do we WANT, what IS our humanity, who we are…? We start by envisioning our ideal future, and we do…

Water and Food are Human Rights that nearly 900 million of our fellow human beings are not receiving. The Award for the Humanitarian Water and Food project that shows effectiveness, innovativeness and potential will be presented in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2009. If you know of any project that may qualify for the prize, please…

My last trip to England showed a country being hit by the effects of the peak of oil production. My visit over New Year shows a country nose-diving into a new kind of recession: one that has no end. Some examples: UK’s refinancing timebomb Sunday Times 4 Jan 2008 – Some £50 billion in loans…

You may know that I am engaged in the Water and Food situation in the world. Everyone should go to bed well fed, and at this time the number starving is just under 90 million or 13% of the world’s population. The idea of water and food for all, put forward by yours truly inspired…

I’m worried. I have just been to a presentation of world population trends by the eminently informative Swedish Professor Hans Rosling from Karolinska Institute. It seem that world population is expected to continue to expand. The good news is that the number of children per woman is reducing in developing countries and stable in developed…

As I blogged earlier, I believe SECOND LIFE (Secondlife.com) offers possibilities to model ideas of sustainability, both as 3D worlds showing sustainable technology, like the Island of Etopia, and to try out the social side of sustainable living in communities, like the Island of Perfect Paradise.Second life maybe a good platform to spread ideas about…