Last week I visited a friend of mine, Luke, who lives in a co-op in New Cross, South London. The Sanford Co-op has been around since the early 1970s and is known for its sustainable energy use and communal atmosphere.
Up until last week everyone has claimed a bike parking space next to a tree, […]
Filed under: city, gardens, future, caves, environmental planning on June 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
“When I had a car I was always tense. I’m much happier this way,” said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor.
Vauban, completed in 2006, is an example of a […]
Filed under: city, future, environmental planning on May 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
“The plight of the Maldives poses an eschatological question as much as an environmental one. When will the world end? How can we prepare for it? In that respect, we are all Maldivians.
The islanders just happen to be among the first groups to contemplate these questions seriously. But that’s not to say each and […]
Filed under: eco-tourism, future, environmental planning on May 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
It’s already well blogged, this vertical farming idea, and its currently the 8th most emailed article on the NYTimes.
Vertical farming is currently only conceptual and is the work of a Columbia professor, Dickson Despommier (of the apple trees) and his grad students. It begins with a skyscraper used to raise food such as fruit, vegetables, […]
Filed under: farm, city, future, environmental planning on July 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This “auto-sufficient amphibious” city will mostly likely end up being some kind of eco-resort for the rich long before it becomes a refuge for the displaced. But oh I wish I could live on it now.
Each city-pad can sustain 50,000 inhabitants and includes plans for self-sustainable resources, zero or no co2 emissions, and obviously the […]
Filed under: city, lilypad, future, environmental planning on July 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last Autumn I was wondering how or if my interest in anti-war protesting is related to my interest in why environmental activists become, well, active. Somewhere along this trail of inquiry I ran into the theory of Peace Parks.
Wikipedia states that peace parks create friendly borders between countries and encourage natural animal migration patterns, […]
Filed under: parks, eco-tourism, social justice, environmental planning on June 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A new Google Earth feature (download here) visually represents the rates of deforestation across the world.
Other new features of Google Earth Outreach include layers representing dams to endangered species to the South China Sea project. The Huffington Post asks what other layer could be next. I’m interested to see what global layers exist for public […]
Filed under: environmental planning on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Read this article from the us forest service on our future leisure environments.
photo credit: Svadilfari
This article predicts “the probabilities of future events associated with natural-resource management, wildland-recreation management, environmental pollution, population-workforce-leisure, and urban environments. Though some of the predictions projected to the year 2050 may sound fantastic now, the authors think that some of […]
Filed under: future, natural landscape, environmental planning on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
This play on words, Scales of Environmental Justice, as introduced to me by Cindi Katz, points to two ways we can think about and study environmental justice.
In GIS research (and others which emphasize horizontal geography) scale can refer to the scale of analysis used in a study and the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of populations […]
Filed under: natural landscape, social justice, environmental planning on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
Stewardship can be defined as an individual’s responsibility to exercise care over possessions entrusted to him or her. Environmental stewardship implies caring for, ensuring well-being, maintaining vigilance, accepting personal responsibility, and understanding the importance of environmental accountability (Beavis, 1994). It also implies responsible management of natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations […]
Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
