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 is to act in advisory capacity to assist the Prime Minister’s office in identifying and prioritizing measures to reach the 2020 goal. Says the commission’s General Secretary, Stefan Edman: ”the Read more about 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 to the start. Streamed by Max Wahlter transcribed 2005 – 11-23 START TRANSCRIPTPREAMBLEThe last visit was to a place starting to go through the PORENA process to become more sustainable. Read more about 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 area as long as the carrying capacity of that area (eg food producing) is not damaged. It is sustainable if this growth does not endanger carrying capacity for future generations. Read more about 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 urgency. No problem there, the Swedish Prime Minister announced Sweden will be oil independent by 2020. An American group, “Set America Free” is already calling for a new Manhattan project Read more about 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 now living sustainably in PORENA ever managed to develop from a technology – industrial growth community to where I found them on my last visits. Where did they start? (If Read more about 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 Max had tried to find a new source of income, sustainable inventions. He had come across the technique of Image Streaming, invented by Dr. Win Wenger. With Image Streaming you Read more about 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 do we have for re-localisation of food and manufacturing. Well, it might be more possible than many think. Apart from a lot of data being available on the local geographic Read more about 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 Future Currents website asks for feedback from Brits and gives both practical and policy suggestions. Energy use in the home in Britain is up by a staggering 70 percent just Read more about 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 on-line collaboration event bringing together hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. They’re calling it HABITAT JAM. Just sign up on the JAM homepage. Or watch the Read more about 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 Daily, DN, today reports on a tenant owner cooperative which is starting its break with oil by transferring to a renewable energy source of heat – from the ground underneath Read more about Swedish Tenant Owner Cooperative starts oil break with geothemal heating[…]