Clearly, more effective products and techniques exist out there, but they are sometimes difficult to find. Who has the time to track it all down? Reactual is an organization of specialists and enthusiasts who are devoted to researching the most effective ways of producing the necessities of life. Their METAEFFICIENT guide aims to bring that Read more about Making it easy to buy extremely efficient products[…]
Ekotopia is a centre for sustainability situated just outside Aneby, 3,5 hours drive south of Stockholm. Designed originally as a place where sustainability principles were both practically demonstrated and developed, it is now developing into a conference centre and regional support centre. It offers top of the range lecture facilities with overnight accommodation, small meeting Read more about Ekotopia Centre for Sustainability[…]
Tapescript: Please note: these exercises are done by people sometimes with expertise in the subject matter and sometimes without. The aim is stimulate your own thoughts and innovative powers and to get you involved in sustainability. We take no responsibility for the feasibility any of these ideas unless we have entered extensive verification and testing. Read more about How to connect money and environment[…]
Got a lot of feedback on removing roads from urban areas. You might want to take a look at TODs (Transportation Oriented Design) and PODs (Pedestrian Oriented Design) community development. One use of P.O.D The book Pedestrian Pocket Book is a good start to this concept. It is fairly similar to ideas of Radiality. It Read more about More on walking everywhere[…]
I’ve been pondering about this a lot lately because I started riding the bus to work. However, the nearest bus stops are a 25 minute walk from my house. Especially in the early mornings and late evenings when there are very few cars on the road, the miles of pavement certainly seem to be a Read more about Comments from Edward on Walking everywhere[…]
Got into discussion with several people about cities. I was saying according to my calculations (I freely admit I’m no expert) that you could build cities to house one million people in such a way that you need no roads, that population density is less than that of the London suburb Ealing, and that all Read more about Back to Radiality[…]
Listen to Tom Peters. He is urging every one to Re-Imagine. In times like these when uncertainty rises and (my words) the challenge of sustainability creeps ever higher up the priority list you need to respond appropriately. Not doing many small changes to many small things. Not any more. Re-imagine your company: the way you Read more about Follow Tom Peters: Re – Imagine.[…]
These e-briefings are for people who are interested in a simple run-down on sustainability. We cover a wide area from how serious it is, to what it means to organizations though to ways of handling the challenges. We are going to give it to you straight as we see it, and try and point you Read more about E-briefing # 2 What does sustainability mean to business?[…]
Porena follow up notes: Connection to Maslow and the Five Stresses Regular readers will remember that in the Sustainable Society of PORENA, a lot of work was done to understand what they called the five stresses. These were in the areas of 1) Nutrition 2) Shelter, including clothing 3) Mechanical stress, including safety aspects 4) Read more about Maslow’s hierarchy revisited[…]
New IFTSP training now available Until now, the techniques of Inventing for the Sustainable Planet have been used by only a few. We decided to create a course around the techniques. The first pilot, held at United Spaces Offices in Stockholm, proved very successful. With the space of two hours we had got everyone Image Read more about Learn the techniques[…]