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Postcard from Medellín: A Big WUF for Urban Equity
“Is this your first WUF?” is a question commonly asked at the World Urban Forum, a gathering for, by, and about city people that was first convened by UN Habitat in Nairobi in 2002 and descended on...
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Postcard from Medellin, Part 2: Are we better off being better off?
A Day in a Less Developed Life. Parque Biblioteca España, Medellín.The desire to create comfort and security for ourselves probably counts as one of the most rudimentary motivations in the human...
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The Urban Metabolism: Understanding Your City by Understanding its Flow
Note: Climate change is the overarching environmental issue of our time and I'm a huge proponent of urging national and world leaders to take action. However, I often wonder what it is they're going to...
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WARNING: Graphic Humor May Cause Severe Climate Change Awareness
So here I am, fresh off the proverbial boat to witness Week 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru, aka COP20, or the 20th session of the Conference of the...
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How Gondolas and Hip Hop Transformed the Most Dangerous City in the World
Medellín went from being ground zero of Colombia's drug war to UN poster child for urban equality—and the people made it happen, by designing the city they wanted.Note: This article appears in Cities...
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Ways in which your garden is like a city
An urban ecosystemIf you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the...
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Carsick Planet, Part 1: Why the world needs FEWER not better cars
“Carden of Eden” at Flora Grubb Gardens, San Francisco. All photos by Sven EberleinWith the upcoming 21st UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) this December promising to be a multi-lane highway towards a...
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Carsick Planet, Part 2: Reducing the fleet through personal, infrastructure &...
If indeed the continued proliferation of the personal automobile is not compatible with the future we want as I have suggested in Part 1 of this series, the question naturally becomes: How exactly are...
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Carsick Planet, Part 3: Get around. Not too fast. Mostly walk.
Getting around not too fast on the New York High Line.The previous segment of this series left off discussing how lifestyle choices, infrastructure, and a new economic thinking must work in tandem to...
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Postcard from Abu Dhabi: On the Road to Masdar City, a Desert Ecocity in the...
Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon city under construction.Last month saw the 11th edition of the International Ecocity Conference Series that was first held 25 years ago in Berkeley,...
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When they go neutering EPA with fossil fools, we go building clean and...
Okay, so I admit that the orange plunderer-in-thief’s nomination of science-denying, oil-soaked, climate change-causing polluter Scott Pruitt to head the EPA gave me a little extra acid reflux in...
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Sead microplanters - growing system using recycled plastic planters and chain link fence...
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