“I don’t want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers that has forgotten its own past. I want to belong to a generation that has decided forcefully to defend its democracy.” — Emmanuel Macron, President of France it’s now commonplace to observe that the city is the…
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Historian Bob Johnson’s Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture examines the start of the fossil-fuel revolution in the US in the 1800s and shows how it created more than a new energy economy. A new American culture came into being. “We became a people of…
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April 4, 2018 | Adaptive Futures, Climate Adaptation, Modern City Model, Urban Climate Innovation, Urban Transformation
“Rethinking Cities in Arid Environments”–the latest in Arup’s “Cities Alive” series–offers fascinating insights into the urban climate adaptation challenge that gets little attention (so far) compared to sea level rise. cloudbursts, and river flooding. Arid environments–zones with scarce fresh water and precipitation–will become more challenging for…
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Hurray! Our book about building social-impact networks is still selling nicely after 42 months on Our Best Seller List! “Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing Networks for Social Impact” is on its way to 5,000 sales. To our surprise, nearly a quarter of the sales are…
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It will take decades–the rest of the 21st century at least–to decarbonize the world economy and strengthen the climate resilience of communities. So we will need innovation and change to be sustained across multiple generations. March for Our Lives, whatever its immediate political impact, is a…
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