Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly
Neil Postman, Technopoly (1992): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly
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
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
Berlin opens Europe's largest urban aquaponics farm: http://www.ecf-farm.de/
"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.
"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."
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
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.htm
Singapore'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.
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".
"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
"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
Beyond human-centred design, to? - by @CassieRobinson: https://medium.com/@cassierobinson/beyond-human-centred-design-to-501a994f3123
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
"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
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/
Nature surveillance post-capitalism (source)
People fish for crayfish next to solar panels at a fishery-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station, in Yangzhou, China (VCG)