You all know about the horrendous fires in Northern California. I think the arguments for ecocity fire safety solutions are water tight, so I’ll share an opinion piece that I...
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The Full Broad Sun of Day – avoiding or addressing sea rise issues for the San Francisco Bay Area
In 2009 what could have been a threshold-crossing competition into a far healthier future took place on the future of San Francisco Bay Area. As far as I’m concerned the...
Global Cooling by 2050
Definitely possible if highly improbable. But what would it take? The scientists are not thinking like that because they watch trends and know people are hardly likely to do what...
When Autonomous Cars Take Flight – Beware of dumb artificial intelligence
“‘I love the idea of being able to go into my back yard and hop into my flying car,’ said Brad Templeton, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has served as a consultant on Google’s...
Galápagos Inspirations
What’s there to love in a place you’ve never been before? Shangri-la doesn’t exist at all, but flying home from Kathmandu, that ever reborn medieval city nestled there under the...
Ecocities + Evolution = Best of Emergence
I’d given a talk to 25 of Rosalia’s friends at the homey big house that serves as headquarters for her FIDAL Foundation. They promote better education for young people there in...
Trump Victory and Ecocities
Why not a title like “Trump Victory and the Implications for Ecocities?” Because this man is a loose cannon barreling about the deck in stormy times and predictions can easily be...
Horizontal City + Vertical City = 3-D City
I have to credit two people for transforming cities around the world, starting in the US, into horizontal, that is, flat cities. I’ll show you a picture of both of them. Their...
Driverless cars? Bad idea. How about driverless cities?
Something big is coming up and something important might be neglected and set us way, way back. It is Earth Day 2020, and maybe we will not take advantage of a powerful...
Peace through Ecocities
Several of us, after a day of planning for the 11th International Ecocity Conference coming up in Abu Dhabi, headed out to dinner to eat, converse, think about the day and just...