Environmentalist On A Mission

What if money was no object?

2013-04-30T08:23:00.003+02:00

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

2013-03-14T17:25:00.001+01:00

Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change

2013-03-10T17:19:00.001+01:00

Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture

2013-03-10T15:36:00.000+01:00

Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit

2012-12-30T15:51:00.001+01:00

What if money didn't matter?

2012-11-18T10:37:00.002+01:00

Gone in 60 secs

2012-10-30T19:18:00.002+01:00

Gone in 60 secs Parts 1 & 2 (LETS FIGHT BIKE CRIME) on Pinkbike

Earth Days (2009)

2012-10-30T18:31:00.001+01:00

"No external force is imposing these environmental problems on us. They have arisen because every morning 6 billion people get up and have breakfast, and go to work, and do their thing, and come home at night... Environmental problems emerge out of daily life and the solutions for the environmental problems are also rooted in daily life." Dennis Meadows, "Earth Days" (PBS 2009)

Aftermath: World Without Oil

2012-09-02T11:06:00.000+02:00

Dr. Bernie Krause: The Great Animal Orchestra

2012-08-24T18:28:00.003+02:00

Dr. Bernie Krause: The Great Animal Orchestra from California Academy of Sciences and California Academy of Sciences on FORA.tv "Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that every living organism produces sound. This presentation focuses on the symbiotic ways in which the sounds of one organism affect and interrelate with other organisms, local and regional, within a

Trees Communicate With One Another, Connected by Fungi (Video)

2012-08-18T14:15:00.003+02:00

'singapore: biophilic city'

2012-06-10T20:02:00.001+02:00

Hazel Borys: Confessions of a Former Sprawl Addict

2012-06-10T15:03:00.002+02:00

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

2012-06-01T12:11:00.000+02:00

"Willie Smits works at the complicated intersection of humankind, the animal world and our green planet. In his early work as a forester in Indonesia, he came to a deep understanding of that triple relationship, as he watched the growing population of Sulawesi move into (or burn for fuel) forests that are home to the orangutan. [..] "Smits believes that to rebuild orangutan

The Big Green Idea project

2012-05-26T13:51:00.002+02:00

Transition 2.0

2012-05-22T08:46:00.001+02:00

In Transition 2.0 is the new film from Transition Network, capturing inspiring stories of Transition initiatives around the world, responding to uncertain times with creativity, solutions and 'engaged optimism' - http://www.intransitionmovie.com/

Paul Gilding: The Earth is full

2012-05-17T09:03:00.001+02:00

"It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.” (Paul Gilding)

Permaculture - A Quiet Revolution

2012-05-15T21:26:00.000+02:00

Planning an ecocity

2012-05-09T12:36:00.000+02:00

Pic. 1. The compact living is the key to explain the ecocity. No energy- efficiency program is that efficient. Pic. 2. The ecocity concept should integrate the old in the new to get a feeling of settlement. Personal integration is needed for the human mind and orientation. Pic. 3. Eco means householding and also relations. In the ecocity, many relations is necessity. Bigger trees and

Trail run camp Fuerteventura

2012-05-04T12:01:00.000+02:00

Fuerteventura. A moon-like canarian island. The only green spot were the golf course close to the hotel and apartment resort. We took the flight six hours from home, just to run here for a week. Breakfast buffet and dinner buffet, pure sun, Olympia pool and sports events everyday. We rest and we use our bodies, and we eat good. Expect the flight (witch is bad enough), we now transport

Bike lines Göteborg

2012-04-06T11:18:00.004+02:00

Was cycling one sunny autumn day through this place, when realizing what was going on around me I braked and forgot the shoes stuck into the pedals. But it was worth a small fall, look at this! Its roads for bikes! No cars allowed here! Signs only for bikes and pedestrians. Bike have to rest some at the grass while owner take pictures at this very special junction of only bike lines! Bikes,

Architecture 101:7

2012-04-05T21:33:00.011+02:00

- From 101things i learned in architectural school, Matthew Frederick

Plantagon

2012-03-23T10:48:00.000+01:00

see more at Plantagon's homepage

Complexity of ideas

2012-03-21T13:58:00.001+01:00

picture from here What if technology could be used to build artificial city environments. What if people had insight in processes in forehand, and in the same time could influence with ideas. What if the users would be the ideas man in a platform like a community sort of like facebook with users able to discuss future plans. What if this platform had some elements ready and others able to

Recycling for dummies part 2

2012-03-09T11:47:00.005+01:00

Apparently our tenants learned how to throw food in the paper bag and garbage in the other container (and not food with packaging on anymore, see last post). But that other container is all full just from one household now, since me and my mother separate everything, which just leaves traces in the "normal garbage container" so it ain't our trash in the other bin.. Well done tenants, but what