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California’s Population Problem?
Is reducing the population really the solution to solving the California's multiple crises? Patrick Lydon takes a look.[read more]
The Price of Sustainable Cities
Valid criticism for the four leading posts would have to include a level of redundancy. In fact, the more redundant the reader found them, the better. Such fundamental arguments, from my experience, seem to be discussed casually, if at all when sustainable planning is ever the agenda. Efficiency is demonised as an industrial tool for...[read more]
Efficiency is Truly Virtuous: Planning Prosperity
Unlike natural ecosystems, the constructed human ecosystem is one with the ability of proactive planning. This, one of my favourite remarks, should be a defining, almost virtuous, quality of our species, instilled in each of us from a young age: whereas the natural world is a brutal place that persists only through cut-throat genetic...[read more]
Putting a Price on Nature
One of the reasons that sustainability measures can be so easily sidelined in our efforts of prioritization is that value of the contributions of natural systems or the liabilities of their predicted absence never factor into the bottom lines of our society. In a culture of buying and selling products, natural capital rarely makes it to...[read more]
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”