Visionaries
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Editor's Note: This article is part of a regular section in Solutions in which the author is challenged to envision a future society in which all the right changes have been made.
"What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and...
Suppose we could move gloriously and quietly along in our own comfortable car compartment some 20 feet high between the trees, yet with no engine running, no fossil fuel use, no greenhouse gas emissions, and no need to watch the road (Figure 1). Or, we could zip along in channels dug just below ground level and topped with translucent covers. No unpredictable drivers to worry about or vehicles to crash into. No driver fatigue, indeed, no...
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In 2005 the United Nations released the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international synthesis by over 1,000 of the world’s leading scientists that analyzed the state of the Earth’s ecosystems and the services they supply to support humanity, along with scenarios and recommendations for the future. Six years later, Solutions checks on the effect of the report with biologist Walter Reid, who directed the assessment. Reid is currently the director of the Conservation and Science Program at...
In early 2011, Dow Chemical announced a $10 million, five-year partnership with The Nature Conservancy “to advance the incorporation of value of nature into business, and to take action to protect the earth’s natural systems and the services they provide people, for the benefit of business and society.” Solutions discusses this project with Dow Chemical’s sustainability director, Mark Weick, and The Nature Conservancy’s director of corporate practices, Michelle Lapinski.
How was the...
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The industrial revolution is dead! Burning fossils for fuel, stuffing our bodies with poisoned factory food and filling our homes with toxic possessions; pillaging and...
Co-Existence Model of Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Earth.
(updated draft of "'Evolving' the Ideal Earth Design: Ensuring Transparency".)
online http://www.modelearth...
The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively:
To Whom the Future of the Earth Might Concern.
(online www.ModelEarth.Org )
I propose that the differences that there exist...
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