Entries tagged with: Sustainability

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How Many Earths?

It's a standard trope in environmental commentary: we would need more than one Earth to support the planet's population, especially if everyone lived like Americans. The number of Earths needed can vary greatly, depending upon who's doing the counting. 1.2?...

Posted on May 16, 2008 4:52 PM

The Suburban Question

How do you green the suburbs? The bright green mantra, when it comes to the built environment, is that cities rule, suburbs drool. Cities are more (energy) sustainable, resilient, cultural, diverse, better for your waistline, surprise you with presents on...

Posted on May 9, 2008 3:39 PM

Feedback, Tipping Points, and Hard Choices

I have one thing to say: depopulation is not a global warming strategy. Here's what leads me to that (seemingly obvious, but apparently not) observation. We know these to be true: Feedback effects ranging from methane released from melting permafrost...

Posted on April 28, 2008 6:52 PM

Tuesday Topsight, April 15, 2008

Because I'm in meetings all week... • Going Around in Circles: What's the secret to improving fuel efficiency, cutting emissions, and saving gas money? Don't turn left. At least, that's how the UPS routing software does it. No, really: Time...

Posted on April 15, 2008 11:29 AM

Green Tomorrows: the Web Seminar

On December 20th, I'll be conducting something of an experiment. In coordination with Natural Logic, I'll be leading an hour-long "webinar"* on four different scenarios of how we may respond to global warming, and build a sustainable future. Here's the...

Posted on December 7, 2007 11:04 AM

Opportunity Green

On Saturday, November 17, I'll be speaking in Los Angeles at the first annual Opportunity Green conference, looking at the future of "sustainable business." Opportunity Green is being produced in cooperation with UCLA's Sustainable Resource Center. I'm the least business-focused...

Posted on September 6, 2007 2:36 PM

The Resilient World

Environmental architect William McDonough is said to have asked, "If a person described her relationship with her spouse as merely 'sustainable' wouldn’t you feel sorry for both of them?" The word "sustainability" has come to dominate environmental discourse, employed to...

Posted on February 23, 2007 11:45 PM

Hawaii 2050

It's the classic dilemma of both foresight and environmental consulting: how do you get the people with the power to act to pay attention? Political leaders rarely pay sufficient attention to issues of systemic sustainability and planning for long-term processes,...

Posted on August 29, 2006 5:16 PM

Future of the Future

The next five days will see a potentially interesting -- at least to me -- intersection of a variety of important dynamics I've been following closely. • Global guerillas, or the reaction to them. What should be an hour wait...

Posted on August 22, 2006 11:16 PM

Nature as an Information Economy

A Friday afternoon thought experiment. The natural world was once thought of solely as a provider of resources for production. Wood, oil, water and other raw materials held value inasmuch as they were part of the industrial production cycle. This...

Posted on July 28, 2006 5:58 PM

Sustainable Cities

Sustainlane's Warren Karlenzig is now blogging for the organization, and the opening of his site coincides with the release of Sustainlane's 2006 US Cities Ranking. The top cities include Portland (#1, up from #2 last year), San Francisco (#2, down...

Posted on June 1, 2006 3:25 PM

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