Our Wondeful Green Future
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GIMBYism – Greenery In My Back Yard (please)
The future of humanity depends on us working WITH the Environment and embracing it. Not constantly trying to fight it, dominate it, or, as we do in most of our cities, completely obliterate it. GIMBYism is a movement that promotes the idea of MORE GREENERY in our cities, not less. Many of us watch in…
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Ministry of Imagination Manifesto released as the world goes to the polls.
Post via: www.robhopkins.net [Download The Manifesto here]. This year, 49% of the world goes to the polls in 64 countries. As Time magazine puts it, “2024 is not just AN election year. It’s perhaps THE election year”. The outcomes of these elections will hugely shape the world and our future, most importantly of all is…
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Odonata Foundation
Odonata is an Australian Environmental Organisation that is saving endangered animals and regenerating landscapes, while increasing profitability for landholders. Since its inception, Odonata has protected over 49,000ha of habitat, engaged with 7 First Nations groups, worked with hundreds of businesses, farms, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. It manages programs for multiple threatened species and has been…
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Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment
The author, Grant Ennis, covers a lot of important ground in this book. Most of it is dedicated to showing the reader exactly how we have got into multiple crises and why it feels like we can’t get out of any of them. Much of this can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher and her…
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Grace Petrie – Fixer Upper
I wanted to write a longer post about this song as I felt sharing it on https://mastodon.world/@OWGF and saying “this is great,” didn’t really capture how much I love it and why. Fixer Upper by Grace Petrie is to me the ultimate #SolarPunk anthem and the anthem for this blog too. https://genius.com/Grace-petrie-fixer-upper-lyrics At its heart…
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Every Day…
I spotted this poster on a recent City Beautiful video on Nebula, and decided to google it. Turns out there is a whole website you can buy posters from. https://www.everydayisyourchance.com
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Vulture Capitalism
To create a Wonderful Green Future, first it helps to understand how we got into multiple crises and what it will take to dig us out of them. This book by Grace Blakeley does just that. It’s easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an…
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Participatory Urbanism (Holborn, London)
There’s a lot to like about this Holborn Liveable Neighbourhood web site, when it comes to Participatory Urbanism. If you are a Council and want to get public support, manage feedback, canvas residents for ideas, and keep people informed, this service from Commonplace is a great option. Firstly I do like the excellent overview, of…
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THE GREENLINE PROJECT – Melbourne, Australia
Our Wonderful Green Future involves us retrofitting our current cities of concrete & cars with new, vibrant, green and livable spaces. This will require a mix of small, local, initiatives, along with grand plans and big projects like the THE GREENLINE. The Greenline Project aims to reposition Melbourne’s Yarra River (Birrarung) as the focal point…
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First Nations and Renewable Energy Projects
Delivering better outcomes for Indigenous people and developing clean energy, in tandem, seems like the way to go for me. Of course far better “ownership” arrangements are needed and much more power and decision making needs to be devolved to those who live on the land, but this absolutely is a step in the right…
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The World’s First Forest City
Here’s an interesting project, imagining a Forest City of the future in Gabon, Central Africa, a country rich for its forests, rivers and biodiversity. Like all developing countries, their challenge is to decide whether they want to follow the principles of industrial cities or they want invent an ecological model that attracts talented people and…
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Pictures of the future 2045: Journey into the world of tomorrow.
I highly recommend you don’t just look at these amazing images and you visit the website too. (Armed with your translator. It’s in German) This project is so much more than a bunch of really nice renders of a potential Wonderful Green Future, it’s a toolkit for those looking to create Utopias. Utopias make change…
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