I recently started blogging for Mother Earth News as part of my work with Ecocity Builders. Specifically, I’m trying to give their audience more insights into ecologically inspired urban design…
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Shareable just published my 2nd postcard from Medellin, Are We Better Off Being Better Off?, looking more deeply into the meaning of “development” and “progress,” including plenty of photos and…
Postcard from Medellín: A Big WUF for Urban Equity This is the first in a multi-part series about Medellín, the World Urban Forum 7, and the Ecocitizen World Map Project,…
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about our relationship with information technology for the Matador Network that I thought would be worth sharing here. I find that there…
If you care about the environment, it’s easy to get frustrated these days. No matter how hard you try to be part of the solution — from personal choices like…
From Urban Prototype to Heart of the City in 313 Days was just published on Shareable. Pulse of the City is an interactive public art installation that turns pedestrians’ heartbeats…
Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects — and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge brought them to the West. I recently…
After YES! Magazine published my article Chevron Pollutes, Here’s What the People Did Back last week about two actions this summer to bring attention to a multitude of the oil…
The host of this year’s Ecocity World Summit, Nantes has shown the way of using art to build a culture of resilience. My article Lessons for building an ecocity culture…
A new process called Data Jams is spreading through government because of their effectiveness in creating public benefit and business opportunities from open government data. I got to explore these…