This is the talk I gave to kickoff Shareable's SHARE San Francisco event last May. I share a few insights about the opportunity to create a more shareable San Francisco, but the ideas apply to other cities too.
I hadn't been excited to share it because as a speaker, I'm a work in progress. And I share a personal moment that I've never shared on video before. However, with the start of our Policies for a Shareable City series, it seems fitting to share now. The series got its start at SHARE San Francisco. And we're asking readers (that means you!) to share their visions of a shareable city in the form of policy proposals. I hope this inspires you to jump in because ultimately the places we live shape who we become, and in that way cities are deeply personal.
So, what's your vision of a shareable city?
Comments
Lukas Fischer wrote on 09.16.11, 11:41am:
Neal, very inspiring! The future is all about sharing!!
My vision: The future city puts openness, sharing, learning, social interaction, equality forward.
Kim Gyr wrote on 09.19.11, 8:16am:
My heart stopped for 10 minutes (!) as my forehead was being sutured under a general anesthetic following a car accident in Nairobi, Kenya in 1980, depriving me of the abilities to do everything that I had learned as an infant, how to walk, speak, remember, etc.! Over the next 20 months, I staggered, walked and jogged over 330 miles to regain those abilities, and also began to write & design images of how we might overcome the problems of the end of petroleum and of global climate change. If the components of our genes have always existed in different combinations and recombinations since life first began, they are eternal, and we must care for their existence in the Year 4000 and the Year 100000, in the form of our children's children's children's children's children, and the women who give us our children! Yet, those 2 groups are the 2 most abused on the planet!
Please see what my imagination produced as a vision for the world's first 100% sustainable global infrastructure in such difficult circumstances on my website at www.greenmillennium.eu
Thank you very much, Neil!
Kim Gyr
Director, Green Millennium
Lon Wong wrote on 09.20.11, 11:50am:
awesome Neal, you completely rock. Thanks for sharing a bit of your story and vision.
Lon
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Neal Gorenflo wrote on 09.20.11, 4:04pm:
Thanks for the props Lon, and for moving things forward in the sharing community.
I always wondered how you came to be such an awesome sharing pioneer :) This is...worth sharing!