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The solution: A Roof + A Skill + A Market via The Bubian Vault website After two years of technical trials, a French builder, Thomas Granier, and a Burkinabé farmer, Séri Youlou, set up the Association la Voûte Nubienne (AVN) in the year 2000. AVN's mission...

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Tag(s) : #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Technic, #Pionier, #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Environment, #Civilization, #Community, #Share Economy, #Social Enterprise, #Urbanism, #History

via futurist blog In Brief Scientists have developed a sunlight-powered device that can extract water even from desert skies. The device is powered passively by sunlight and may provide an answer to the billions facing severe water shortages around the...

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Tag(s) : #Science, #Technic, #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Nature, #Environment, #Civilization, #Innovation, #Share Economy, #Ideas, #Health

The Boston Redevelopment Authority was infamous for bulldozing neighborhoods and displacing residents. Now, it’s using human-centered design thinking to shake that reputation. via FastCompany Newsletter By Eillie Anzilotti When Martin J. Walsh was sworn...

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Tag(s) : #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Sustainability, #LiveWork, #Science, #Paradigm Shift, #Consciousness, #Environment, #Community, #Share Economy, #Innovation

via NEXUSFEED Newsletter Picture pixabay CC0 In Brief The world's largest money management firm, BlackRock, is poised to conduct a complete overhaul of its current systems to focus on using algorithmic solution to improve its services. 13% of its portfolio...

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Source via We Dream Business Blog A. The main facts about the activities of the company. POCHECO is a French company that manufactures and distributes all types of ecological envelopes or, how they call them, ecovelops. Their main objective is to produce...

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Source website space 10 The Growroom in all its glory. Photo by Alona Vibe The design for The Growroom, an urban farm pavilion that looks into how cities can feed themselves through food producing architecture, is now open source and available for anyone...

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Tag(s) : #Technic, #Cultural Creatives, #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Environment, #Nature, #Innovation, #Share Economy, #Social Enterprise, #Urbanism, #Design

These wooden skyscraper designs are more sustainable, less expensive, and consume less fossil fuel to build and maintain.

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(Source: trueactivist.com; January 31, 2017;Grafic Credit: BMDesign Studios http://tinyurl.com/h7x8cvc) This intriguing concept collects rainwater and cools homes in desertic climates.Water scarcity is a conundrum that affects every continent. Approximately...

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(Source: collective-evolution.com; February 8, 2017; http://tinyurl.com/z7pgcy8) Every year, more and more people move out of the country and into cities, causing megacity air pollution to rapidly become hazardous to both the environment and public health....

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via website New Story Hub “The web of life is sacred, and we’re part of that web. Since the prevailing story says humans are separate from the rest of life, how can we (re)find ourselves in that web? ~ Political Science Professor Karen Litfin, author...

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Johanna Treblin copyright Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Photos by Maja Mueller + Hans-Peter Kraus) Summers on the eastern Indian coast are hot and dusty with temperatures often shooting up to 40 degrees Celsius. The red sand in this eastern part of the...

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Tag(s) : #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Consciousness, #Awarness, #Paradigm Shift, #Pionier, #Future, #Cultural Creatives, #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Nature, #Environment, #innermanagement, #Transformation

We had the opportunity to meet Trupti in Pududcherry and have her over some years ago in Germany and Switzerland. Basel USB, Freiburg office Architect Technau , Berlin SACB Berlin. It is a must for all who are interested in Smart Cities and their development....

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Tag(s) : #Consciousness, #Science, #Technic, #Paradigm Shift, #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Environment, #Spirituality, #Integral

Via treehuger by Kimberley Mok source inhabitat Picture Source Naturhuset The Arctic Circle has some of the harshest climate you can imagine: long, cold, dark winters and short summers. Yet this is the very place that the Hjertefølgers, a family of six,...

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via inhabitat source Arch Daily by Ana Lisa Brahma-Architects turned trash into treasure with their striking LAHO House. Located in a communal settlement in Israel called Hofit, the family home combines minimal lines with found materials. A colorful reclaimed...

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25 Years ..What Next? Two weeks ago, 300 people gathered in Totnes Civic Hall, Devon, UK, to celebrate 25 years of Schumacher College and consider 'What Next?' for this pioneering educational place, specialising in learning for a more sustainable, just...

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Tag(s) : #Education, #Ecology, #Environment, #Ethic, #Urbanism, #Integral, #Pionier, #Paradigm Shift, #Awarness, #Sustainability

via TreeHugger by Lloyd Alter What is a a Passive House? One critic of Passive House design called it “a single metric ego driven enterprise that satisfies the architect's need for checking boxes, and the energy nerd's obsession with BTUs.” But over at...

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From Thursday, October 6 at 2pm to 6pm on Sunday, October 9 Four days of workshops and conferences to foster positive dialogue and engaged discussion around urban mobility issues, including two free days for the general public. Renowned speakers from...

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Author: Matt Payton via Independent 'Supermarkets will be obliged to sign a donation deal with charities' Supermarkets in France have been banned from throwing away or spoiling unsold food by law. The stores are now required to donate unwanted food to...

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Tag(s) : #Economy, #Ethic, #Consciousness, #Awarness, #Environment, #Sustainability, #Share Economy

MapMakersWorld Author: Simon Poeschel At first please excuse the long break after my last blog. Amongst others I spent four weeks on my bike cycling through northern Italy. The matter of fact that you can find in almost every small village a small café,...

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Tag(s) : #Sustainability, #Ecology, #Simon, #Column, #Environment, #Technic, #Inspirational, #Nature

via inhabitat by Lidija Grozdani A single family house and two semi-detached houses in Berlin generate more energy than they consume - enough to power the car in the garage. Designed by German design studio GRAFT in collaboration with engineering firm...

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via websiteFUTURE MY LOVE Hans-Peters comment: If you a Futurist or interested in our Future The Venus Project you need to be aware of. The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order...

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Tag(s) : #Future, #Pionier, #Philosophie, #Economy, #Ecology, #Environment, #Architecture-Cityplaning, #Paradigm Shift, #Technic, #Science

via OUIshare Hans-Peters comment: 2012 started Ouishare in Paris. I personaly enjoy that a movement started in the french speaking world and is now an international leader in the collaborative economy field. A non-profit organization which has rapidly...

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via FastCompany Gwen Moran Here's what Harvard students learn about how to create an environment where innovation thrives. Jodi Goldstein knows a thing or two about innovation. With more than 20 years’ experience as a high-tech entrepreneur and investor...

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Tag(s) : #LeadershipCulture, #Cultural Creatives, #Entrepreneur, #Psychologie, #Science, #Environment, #Education

via vimeo Comment: Sometimes are things simple even if they are complex. See the 52 seconds clip. The Wombat is a short, irreverent take on the state of the world. The Wombat was created by the Foundation for Global Community, which was a an educational,...

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Tag(s) : #Nature, #Environment, #Consciousness, #Change, #Culture, #Community, #Awarness

By Derek Markham (@derekmarkham) via ANB Source Treehuger 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists, and geeks gathered at POC21 and spent five weeks developing 12 sustainable lifestyle technologies. When a group of talented and committed individuals...

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Tag(s) : #Ecology, #Environment, #Technic, #Sustainability, #Social Enterprise, #Awarness, #Change