12th Hour For Arcology
Experiments in arcology are being conducted around the world, such as the low-carbon city being built on Dongtan, an island off Shanghai. Arcology not only disrupts the American Dream of life in suburbia, it replaces it with a new form of city design, a "biomorphic" city designed as a living entity based upon molecular structure.
Waste is Not a Dirty Word!
If Gaia is a single integrated organism, then mankind's pillage of the oilfields has been part of a natural process. We're scared and shamed by environmental degradation, but we're also amassing energy for future inheritors in a way that we ourselves can't envision.
Eco-Community Design: A Proposal
A robust ecovillage design could be successfully marketed purely on an economic basis, as a solid investment opportunity now and even more so every year further down the road of oil depletion.
What Now, America?
Is the Wall Street economic meltdown gearing us up for a food crisis? Or, will we find our way to a better world with values and nutrients as our arsenal?
The Gort Cloud: An Interdependent Community of Green Businesses and Their Customers
The Gort Cloud
is the
invisible network that connects thousands of environmentally aware people. In
building their companies and developing their products, the Gort Cloud has
played a role – even if they don't know what it is yet.
The Shape of the Universe
If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a
leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette
against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a
clue to a cosmic riddle or two.
Melchizedek: Ecological War
The concept of tsedeq (world in balance) brings powers to the ecological struggle which are only unleashed by religious belief. In doing this we are entitled to the name of Melchizedek, the title of the old Canaanite priest-king, the royal warrior who defends sacred ecology and resists the forces of capital.
WORLDSHIFT!
Our unsustainable world will change for it must change—but will it change in time?Â
The Psychology of Ecology
To date, the green movement has focused on the external world of objects and resources. But what about the internal landscape of consumption – the subtleties of our state of mind as we attempt to change our patterns?
Rethinking GDP/GNP…
The very way that we measure our progress is flawed. It's time to measure global economic activity in a way that reflects our impact on the well-being of people and ecosystems.