OurWonderfulGreenFuture
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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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Retro Suburbia: How to build Solar Punk Suburbs
If anyone is wondering, “How the hell do we convert our cities of consumerism, concrete and fossil fuels into solar punk communities?” then this book should be on your reading list. Its, almost 600, pages are divided into three main sections: the Built, the Biological and the Behavioural, along with an introductory section ‘Setting the…
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We can all plant trees, in 2024
When we hear of Tree Planting Projects on the news it’s mostly likely in relation to some massive project, somewhere far away. A “Great Green Wall,” a “Billion Tree Project,” “Reforest Scotland….” All big projects, with big goals and big financial inputs needed. But in truth anyone can instigate tree planting, it’s not just something…
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How 8,000 Food Forests Grew Africa’s Great Green Wall
WOW What an inspiring video! Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Senegal to see a forest garden movement which is contributing to Africa’s Great Green Wall. Andrew accompanies the organization Planet Wild to visit the excellent work of Trees for the Future. This remarkable project holds the promise of combating desertification, providing livelihoods, and nurturing…
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How to turn your Neighborhood into a Village
This same theme keeps coming up in my reading. The way we build our cities, to primarily benefit banks and developers, not people and communities, is failing us all. This video from Andrew Millison looks at the subject in more detail and offers an interesting approach to fixing the problem. “America has the fewest community…
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Biolinks
Biolinks is a wonderful initiative that we need to see replicated across the world. It’s a smart way to bring back nature by working directly with land owners and communities. Biolinks Alliance restores and reconnects large landscapes across public and private land in Central Victoria, Australia, by connecting landowners with environmental groups and networks. Instead…
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OWGF
You can find Our Wonderful Green Future (#OWGF) At: www.owgf.org On WordPress in the Fediverse as: @owgf.org@owgf.org On Mastodon as: https://mastodon.world/@OWGF/ On Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/users/OWGF On Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/owgf.bsky.social On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owgf
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Street Fight: Why We Should Fight the Good Fight for Happy, Healthy, and Beautiful Places
First off: cars are great. They give the population at large immense liberty to move around the country, the countryside, and the suburbs with comfort, ease, and relative safety. They empower and liberate their users. They can particularly help those with goods to deliver or physical challenges to overcome. Those who foolishly campaign for cycling…
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