Design is essential for a sustainable world; here we can showcase the best and discuss the ways forward to inspire others to join in to create the world we need. We're creating the visual language of sustainability by collecting and highlighting the best,

In our peak oil, post-Katrina world, how do America's largest cities stack up in terms of sustainability? Which cities are more self-reliant and better prepared for our uncertain future? Which cities are operating business-as-usual? How Green is Your City?

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Complete with sample meeting agendas and hundreds of remarkable testimonials, the Collaborative Land Use Planning guidebook by Karl Kehde is the result of twelve years of hands-on learning and teaching in 48 land developments in as many different communiti

Climate change is not going away, itÕs getting out of hand. With luck it can still be reversed but not with the kind of thinking that causes broad problems then offers narrow solutions. Humanity need not remain endangered by its habits. The reality gap bet

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... city which population has grown from 6,000 people to two and a half million ... none in the world enabled more than 50,000 poor families to build their own homes

The Great Turning traces the roots of Empire to ancient times and charts the long evolution of its favored instruments of control, from monarchies and bureaucracies to the multinational institutions of the global economy. Korten also tells the parallel sto

All living beings, by their very existence as living beings, have inherent needs for healthy growth and development, and the more successful we are in helping each being meet it's needs, the more successful we will be as individuals, as a species, as a pla

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