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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit”
Ancient Greek proverb?
Our Wonderful Green Future 