No cause is an island
As we wring our hands at inaction on a national food security strategy, climate change or biodiversity protection, it’s easy to focus on the timidity of key decision makers in business and government.
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Living and Breathing in a ‘Black Swan’ World
Resilience…is the capacity to make ongoing adjustments to changing political, economic, and ecological conditions.
Can Walkable Urbanism Boost the Economy?
Has the United States finally reached peak sprawl?
Zero Vision: A plan to make our roads safe
Campaigns to reduce pedestrian, bicyclist and motorist deaths to zero are now taking shape around the country from Philadelphia to Chicago to Oregon.
The End of Sustainability
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine — and ultimately move past — the concept of sustainability.
Global justice, sustainability and the sharing economy
With public interest in the sharing economy on the rise, a polarisation of views on its potential benefits and drawbacks is fast becoming apparent.
Engaging Diverse Communities in Climate Action: Lessons from Chicago
What does climate change mean to people in the U.S. in the context of their daily lives? What does “climate action” look like in the context of particular places and cultures?
Systems Thinking and the Future of Cities
The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in folklore, religious scriptures, and common sense.
Building a movement for happiness
Jefferson and other American revolutionary leaders including Washington, Adams and Franklin all believed that the main purpose of government was increasing the happiness of its citizens.
Putting the ‘sharing’ back in to the sharing economy
In recent years, a new kind of economy based on the age-old practice of sharing is flourishing across North America and Europe, and is now rapidly spreading in popularity throughout the Middle East and other world regions.
Resilience, impact, and learning
Resilience is about the capacity of a system to be able to respond to change.
The Heart of Urban Resilience is Trust, Not Technology
It is no wonder that there was a new energy in the debate concerning the question of resilience, and how to ensure that if — and when — such disasters arrive again, we are more prepared.