November 2005

The commission entrusted with the job of ensuring Sweden’s oil independency by 2020, has its main functional guidelines drawn up and members appointed. The commission… Read More »Sweden’s oil commission “knows what needs to be done” to break dependency

This section is the transcript of my second visualised visit to an area about to embark on sustainable development. Click on the link to go… Read More »Return to PORENA and start-up meeting at town hall

In the context of carrying capacity or economics We get into this debate every time. A population of people can grow in any given geographical… Read More »Can we have SUSTAINABLE growth

This post follows up visualisation of a transformation process toward a sustainable community. Read the visualisation here or click on the link. LINK Sense of… Read More »VERIFICATIONS, Computer simulations as public participation tool

Transcript of taped Image Stream: back to the beginning.Streamed by Max Wahlter, transcribed 2005 11 17 This quest is to find out how the society… Read More »Back to the beginning. Transcript.

You probably remember our colleague Max Wahlter, who took part in our visualizing sessions earlier. Worried about losing his job, while his journal was downsizing… Read More »Return to PORENA. Max is back!

Suppose you could pull together a visualization session in your community: what could be done in our local area to become more sustainable? What possibilities… Read More »Advanced visualisation methods to promote sustainable change

The British Design Council’s RED team project, called Future Currents, has recently completed its work to identify ways to save energy in the home. Their… Read More »British Design Council Team launches home energy intensity reduction campaign

Although we can’t attend personally, we can still make a difference at the coming Climate Conference in Montreal Dec 1-3. IBM is hosting a massive… Read More »Join the Climate Change discussion

High oil prices, and the Prime Minister’s announced intention to break oil dependency make Sweden something of an interesting study in Post-Carbon transition. The Swedish… Read More »Swedish Tenant Owner Cooperative starts oil break with geothemal heating