This week has been an interesting week. I just finished reading Compendium for the Civic Economy – which shows what 25 ideas and communities can do to transform their local economies and I also watched a couple of videos from D11 conference including the one with Elon Musk. The Compendium show cases projects solving problems within […]
Children in an Urban World
Unicef recently published THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012 – Children in an Urban World on scribd in digital format. The report gives us some background on the urban environment and the ever increasing number of children living in urban slums around the world. Usually when we think of poor children without access to water or […]
the world also needs more doers
Yesterday, I wrote ‘the world needs more thinkers’Â today I though it would also look at actually doing something after the thinking. Â There is a need for more thinkers to attack the world’s problems but there is also the need for people to put things in motion by actually doing something. Doing is underestimated and often […]
the world needs more thinkers
The world needs more thinkers to help with the current global crisis but also to help with the small and big problems (environmental, social, economic, etc) that hinder developed and developing nations. Ideas and then following up with action is the greatest thing that thinkers to do. We need less people with intelligence talking about […]
Looking forward to 2012
I am looking forward to 2012 and the coming year. I am not making any resolutions as they are often forgotten by Chinese New Year. This year is about connecting with more people, moving my website World Landscape Architecture and magazine WLA forward, and travelling to learn and for recreation. After returning from Australia for […]