The Sustainable City of Porena

The sustainable city of Porena is the result of about 15-20 Imagestreaming sessions . I had asked a simple question: “what would a sustainable society, with the knowledge we possess today, look like?”

Here are the characteristics:

  1. Food grows everywhere, free to take.
  2. Transport is arranged to be as effective as possible, using a technique called Radiality.
  3. An outer canal provides slow, heavy transport.
  4. Rain supplies drinking water.
  5. Work is all voluntary.
  6. Money is rendered unnecessary.

The Sustainable City


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  1. […] Looking at the diagram, the longer business as usual is left to continue, the less profitable current investments will become. This is because we must expect either a rapid rise in fuel prices or a radical investment in renewables and nature-does-the-work solutions by competitors. Read my ideas on this in another STORY FROM THE FUTURE, this time on truly low-energy cities. […]

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