And Now for Something Completely Different
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NASA visualizes the 22,000 tons of life-giving dust that flows between Africa and South America, revealing how interconnected the world is.
Chasing Ice captures the largest glacier calving ever filmed.
Humanity is now using nature’s services 52 percent faster than what Earth can renew, according to the Global Footprint Network’s 2012 data.
Governance in the good society is grounded in integrated and evidence-based decision-making based on the science and research circulating widely in society. This carbon map is an example of such evidence, as over 95% of the world's scientists now concur that we are indeed changing the climate as a result of human impacts. We need to think carefully about our own perceptions of what our governments say they are doing on our behalf and what decisions are actually being made. Governments are only as accountable as we make them.
I write a lot about the need for reconciliation in my work, of the three imperatives, between the built and the non-built environment, and with other species. But I have never thought about the dynamics of the relationship between light and dark, how good lighting also needs darkness. This video shows how light is a default solution for improving the quality of our built environment. Three elements are essential--focal glow, ambient luminescence and play of brilliants.
This is what the future is, it is young people like this who give me such hope. This is one of the most innovative projects I have discovered on TedTalks. It is a real application of reconciliation, integration and connectivity.
Besides the urban gardening and urban farming movements, there are some wonderful artistic creations being developed, using existing walls of buildings. It is about design with nature, rather than over nature. Others refer to biomimcry. For me, these living walls bring beauty back into out lives, a manufactured nature in some ways (Newman and Dale, forthcoming), but more importantly, they call to our tactile senses, and that, I believe, is critical to the implementation of sustainable development.
This video is a wonderful discussion of planetary boundaries, 9 key biospheric system limits and how to achieve sustainable development in our lifetimes.
Imagine it, you walk into the grocery store go into the produce section and then you pick your veggies right from the plant. This idea may not be very far away. I stumbled upon a new grocery store concept called Agropolis: it combines hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic farming to grow vegetables without soil in an urban environment.
Harvest Produce at the Grocery Store