GreenCities
Developing Greener and More Sustainable Urban Areas
Green Cities dedicated to connecting engineers, advocates, designers, architectects, policymakers, city planners, public officials, working in the field of sustainable energy generation, land use, water management, and environmental stewardship.
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Created: May 18, 2008
Updated: Nov 16, 2009
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Greening our Cities with no Capital
"Greetings friends:So we have fallen on tough times indeed! Especially the state of California. I am interested to hear from all of you what kind of organic activities you are involved in that could h" ...more
Mimosa commented 6 months ago
Organic garden at the White House, Washingt: convert to waste = food by addin...
"Michelle Obama is planting an organic
vegetable garden at the White House. Urban agriculture is certainly
part of a sustainable future: no transport, good food.
For me it's
particularly inter" ...more
mregelsbe... commented 8 months ago
Using urine as fertiliser in town
"At Sirius EcoVillage in Massachusetts, there are composting toilets with separate urinals that divert to 55-gallon plastic barrels. These are periodically emptied onto large amounts of sawdust from t" ...more
yodelheck commented 10 months ago
BBC World News video "Waste not Waste"
"Dear all,
BBC World News is repeating the Zer0-M
video by
Joshka Wessels and TVE, Waste not Waste. Below are the broadcasting times.
You find the complete treatment of the film on the webpage
of T" ...more
mregelsbe... commented 10 months ago
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World Wide Water Commons
Earth the water planet - water being common to everything
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Urban Ecology
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Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
The long-awaited sequel to An Inconvenient Truth comes out Tuesday. If you want a preview, Gore and the book are featured in an excellent Newsweek cover story, The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man. ...more
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Home 2009 Project film
HOME is a spectacular film by Yann Arthus Bertrand that came about with the support and commitment of an amazing international and diverse team and of a large corporate group.
The free access movie in ...more
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home
Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth.
It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threate ...more
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Video from KQED Quest - State of Thirst: California'...
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/state-of-thirst-californias-water-future
State of Thirst: California's Water Future
Check out this great video produced by KQED. Recycled water is offered as a ...more
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Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Check out the local premiere of this film at the CounterCorp Film Festival in SF on May 30. Go to the website and learn more about the film and how you can buy the DVD ($25). If you're strapped for ...more
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Greening Detroit
I have been working on building a coalition of individuals to green Detroit city. Taking the 20,000+ abandoned downtown lots and turning them in to urban agroforestry would revitalize the city and sh ...more
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A project that I'm trying to spark in Seattle:
