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Kigali’s Bold Move: Phasing Out Petrol-Powered Motorcycles
This is another great story from Africa. Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, has announced a plan to phase out petrol-powered motorcycle taxis, starting January 2025. Petrol-powered motorbike taxis account for about 20% of all trips in Rwanda’s capital and significantly contribute to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Electrifying motorcycle taxis offer many benefits. Zero…
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Shouldn’t every School have Safe Streets?
Why doesn’t every city in the world put children first and create Safe Schools Streets?
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Net Zero Cities
Highlighting some of the positive transformations that can happen in our cities as we move towards Net Zero.
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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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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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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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Inclusive Transportation
A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities In OWGF we face a monumental task of righting the wrongs of our predecessors. Especially in car centric countries like USA. This task will require empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to…
Our Wonderful Green Future 