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Zadruga Urbana (Urban Cooperative in English) embodies the idea of an urban-agrarian platform that aims to connect collectives and individuals in order to improve self-sufficiency through direct action: https://en.squat.net/tag/community-garden/ #Garden #Regenerative
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This is how Copenhagen plans to go carbon-neutral by 2025: https://medium.com/everything-thats-next/this-is-how-copenhagen-plans-to-go-carbon-neutral-by-2025-70849d2d67dc #ClimateChange #Regenerative
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Berlin opens Europe's largest urban aquaponics farm: http://www.ecf-farm.de/
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"Here are 10 ways AI could help fight climate change": https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613838/ai-climate-change-machine-learning/
This article says "could" a whooping 13x. While speculative futures can be fun, this is mostly feel-good techno-fetishism and eco-modernism. There is no techno-quick-fix & low/no-tech is often better.
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"How Baltimore is saving urban forests – and its city": https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2019/0610/How-Baltimore-is-saving-urban-forests-and-its-city #Urban #Garden #Regenerative
"The words “city” and “forest” don’t usually go together. But urban forests can bring striking benefits, from lower crime rates to higher home values."
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The 3rd international PLATE conference (Product Lifetimes and the Environment) addresses product lifetimes in the context of sustainability (Berlin, Germany - 18-20 September 2019): https://www.plateconference.org/plate-2019-conference/about/ #Regenerative
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Singapore’s Sky Farms Are Transforming The Agriculture Sector:
https://en.businesstimes.cn/articles/113327/20190606/singapore-s-sky-farms-are-transforming-the-agriculture-sector.htmSingapore's cost-efficient sky farms are changing the way people in the city-state view farming and agriculture as a whole. Lab-grown and in-building products are being promoted to help achieve the ultimate goal of producing 30 percent of Singapore's total food by 2030.
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All decked out: Russia’s shipbuilding major unveils its plans for Arctic cruise liners: https://www.rt.com/business/461982-russia-arctic-liners-tourism/ #ClimateChange
"Valued at up to $300 million each, such liners could potentially be equipped with a helipad or its own on-board casino".
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"Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work": https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-negative-interest-rates-work/ Post by the IMF on the implications of "E-money" (e.g. incoming Facebook, Google, Amazon crypto-dollar replacing traditional USD). #Economics #Politics
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"Economy of Permanence - A quest for a social order based on non-violence" - J. C. Kumarappa (with a foreword by M. K. Gandhi):
https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/economy-of-permanence.pdf
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Beyond human-centred design, to? - by @CassieRobinson: https://medium.com/@cassierobinson/beyond-human-centred-design-to-501a994f3123
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First round of 15 winners of Reinventing Cities competition announced: https://www.climate-kic.org/news/15-winners-of-reinventing-cities-announced/ #Regenerative #Urban #Garden
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"Living Melbourne: A look under the canopy of the Metropolitan Urban Forest Strategy": http://www.100resilientcities.org/living-melbourne-look-canopy-metropolitan-urban-forest-strategy/ Melbourne has a "Chief Resilience Officer". Report: "Living Melbourne: our metropolitan urban forest": https://resilientmelbourne.com.au/living-melbourne/ #Regenerative #Urban #Garden #Politics
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Farm Container Resources:
- Food Server: https://forum.openag.media.mit.edu/t/food-server-documentation-shipping-container-farms/930
- Farm in a Box: http://seedstock.com/2016/05/01/off-grid-farming-kits-deliver-2-acre-farms-in-shipping-containers/
- Farm from a box: https://www.farmfromabox.com/approach
- Making your Own Urban Farm out of Shipping Container:
- http://www.homegrown.org/profiles/blogs/making-your-own-urban-farm-out-of-shipping-container
- PodPonics: https://cityfarmer.info/podponics-uses-shipping-containers-to-grow-food-downtown/
- Agricool: https://agricool.co http://www.climatechange.ie/startup-to-grow-fresh-super-local-food-out-of-recycled-shipping-containers-in-paris/
- Squarerootsgrow: https://squarerootsgrow.com/
- Cubescircle: https://www.cubescircle.de/de/home/
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Urban farming plants seed of sustainability - The benefits of healthier produce and the social and economic impact are such that more people should embrace the practice:
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3014678/urban-farming-plants-seed-sustainability #Garden #Regenerative -
A Water-Stressed World Turns to Desalination: https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/06/desalination-plants-water-supply-drought-technology/592330/
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People fish for crayfish next to solar panels at a fishery-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station, in Yangzhou, China (VCG)
