Category: Envisioning the sustainable future
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Newsletter from the future: Region achieves local economy
Could we rapidly transition from a global to a local economy? This article explores how it could happen. Click here to read. The idea is for businesses to offer investment instruments as well as products. For a deeper discussion see the white paper.
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Sustainable, intentional communities: open world villages
The vision is simple: if everyone lived in intentional, sustainable communities – villages, city/town blocks – then the whole world would be sustainable. Supporting that vision is the Open World Villages networking site, newly launched by the Open World Foundation. Based on the powerful NING platform, the site is bringing together experts in their field…
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Is corporatocracy the way you really want to go?
What is the best way to organise society? That question has been around since we started to be able to talk. In my world I like to add “what is the best way to organise society so it develops resilience and sustainability”. I have pointed to writers like Aldous Huxley who, in his book “Brave…
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Presentation of Transition as Cooking by Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins' Transition Cookbook View another webinar from Stephen Hinton
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Second Life Island Perfect Paradise celebrates three years anniversary
Perfect Paradise (PP) is virtual community in Second life (SL) focussed on learning about community and sustainability. I joined early on. My aim was to learn about community to be able to transfer the knowledge to my real-life (RL) community, now called Änggärdet. Below is an account, written for the Island Newsletter, of why I…
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Japan may bring us all down
In shock I watched videos of the tsunami devastating towns along the coast of Japan. And incredulously I watched the explosion at the nuclear power plant. What are the chances of a nuclear melt-down in at least one of the five plants along the coast each with several reactors at it? And, as this is…
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White paper shows how market forces can tackle carbon dioxide and phosphorus challenges
This updated White Paper How Flexible Emissions Fees Can Drive Transition to Fossil-free and Sustainable Living explains why we need to discourage supply chains from emitting waste into the natural environment. It also explains that what we call waste could be a resource in another supply chain if the economic context were to encourage recycling.…
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Moving to your eco-village is like coming home?
Reading a recent post on Rob Hopkin’s blog-Transition Culture – I was struck by how readers commented on the feeling – and importance of – finding your home. One person had heard stories of the Isle of Skye in Scotland from his mother but never visited. When he went there with her he had that…
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What I do
This blog presents my work envisioning sustainable living arrangements for cities and rural areas. I also work with alternative financing strategies that support sustainable development. As we are reaching the end of the industrial age, I believe we need a positive vision of the future without abundant fossil fuel.