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Design for Social Sustainability – a Framework for Creating Thriving Communities
Our starting point is that although there is widespread understanding of the physical and environmental challenges involved in creating new settlements, there is still much to be learnt about what makes some communities succeed and others fail. In this paper … Continue reading
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Agrihoods: Emerging Self-Sustainable Communities
Something I have always dreamed about has become a reality. It is called an agrihood, a residential neighborhood with a farm at the center—not a golf course, club house or pool, but something really sensible: fresh, organic food! My dream … Continue reading
Bioconstruir para una Comunidad Saludable y Sustentable
Construir una vivienda saludable, sustentable, eficiente y sostenible a partir de materiales naturales y autóctonos que se ensamblan de maner artesanal sin necesidad de maquinaria pesada, energéticamente eficiente y respetuosa con el medio ambiente ya no es un imposible. La … Continue reading
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Lessons of design learned from nature
Michael Pawlyn is a British architect with an affinity for the natural world. So he is passionate about biomimicry—a discipline that looks at nature’s best ideas to inspire solutions to human problems. The Eden Project in Cornwall (pictured bottom), where … Continue reading
Global Village Construction Set
Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set – a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build … Continue reading
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Podemos vivir sin capitalismo
Parte 2 – Parte 3 – Parte 4 – Parte 5 – Parte 6
Posted in Cooperatives, Eco-community, Local, Local finance, Local food, Planning, Sustainable
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El Manzano en transicion hacia un futuro sustentable
Ecoescuela El Manzano, centro de una comunidad de aprendizaje en Chile, ha sido aceptado por Territorio Chile como un proyecto de desarrollo comunitario de punta, con completo apoyo para desarrollar nuestra visión de Universidad Viva, granja demostrativa y comunidad. Ahora … Continue reading
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¿Cómo crear grandes lugares?
Leer Hace algunas semanas atrás revisábamos las necesidades que tiene un determinado sector de la ciudad para convertirse en un gran lugar, me preguntaba concretamente ¿Qué hace de un barrio un gran lugar? A partir de esto PPS plantea “El … Continue reading
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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Tulou Chinese Architecture
Read I had never seen anything quite like them, so I queried him further about how they were made and used. He replied, “The foundation was built with rocks, 2 feet high all around. The juice of glutinous rice and … Continue reading
Local Future
Read Local Future helps communities develop compassionate, resilient, sustainable, local systems to provide food, energy, transportation, jobs and essential services. Local Future Network members develop these systems by helping their communities to transition from dependent units of a global economy; … Continue reading
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