I originally posted this article on World Landscape Architecture and was seeking to cover a range of topics including Climate Adaptation, Local solutions at grand scale, Alternative Transport Modes, Rural and Remedies, and more. The first part of the article is here but you can read the full article on WLA. We are now in […]
Setting Goals and Plans not Resolutions for 2017
It is the last day of 2016 in Melbourne, Australia and it is a time when we read top 10 lists on 2016 and start looking to the future and making resolutions. However, in the past I find resolutions to be fleeting and I usually forget about  them by week 2 or 3 of the new […]
Book Review | The Social Organism by Oliver Luckett & Micheal J. Casey
I picked up The Social Organism after watching Oliver Luckett on Gary Vaynerchuk’s #askgaryvee vlog and was interested in the concept of social (media) as seen from the lens of an organism. The book gives background of the Social Organism and how the seven rules of life (biology) can be applied to social media. Luckett explores social […]
Dreaming – Compendium and Elon Musk
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 […]