Can We Negotiate a Better Suburbia?

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In the fall of 1999, I attended a conference for environmental justice advocates in Boston. The keynote speaker was a middle-aged African American woman whose job was to organize communities around better access to health care. Read more »

The Unconsumption Un-manifesto

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Dumps, landfills, even oceans--sites the world over are covered in the collective detritus of our go-go consumer culture. Yesterday's hottest gadgets and plastic trinkets litter the planet. Read more »

Celebrating Earth Day in Tough Times

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Earth Day has always been my favorite holiday as a parent. I am known for my Scrooge-like tendencies in regards to the big Hallmark-card occasions, and only attempt to quell that predisposition for the sake of my children. Read more »

Aquaponic Transformation

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John Williams calls himself an aquarium fanatic. “I have six tanks right now - a 125 gallon, a 55 gallon, a 30, a 16, a 29…. The 125 gallon is ridiculously huge, especially because it’s all glass,” Williams says. Read more »

Towards a Resilience Pattern Language

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Chris Byrne, a participant at D4R last Saturday, has catalyzed D4R's first informal workgroup to discover a resilience pattern language. Read more »

A Very Short Primer on Resilience

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As Design 4 Resilience approaches, the D4R team is boning up on resilience thinking. And sharing what we're learning on Shareable's D4R channel, Twitter's #D4R hashtag, and the D4R tag on Delicious. Read more »

Design 4 Resilience

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UPDATE: Design 4 Resilience was held in April of 2010. You can read the event notes here.
Shareable is cohosting D4R because a resilient society is one that's democratic and that shares. Read more »

Could Port-au-Prince be Rebuilt from Itself?

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Independence Recycling of Florida has made a fascinating proposal to recycle the debris of Port-au-Prince

The capital city of Port Au Prince looked like it was hit by a giant wrecking ball. Whatever has been left standing by the 7. Read more »

Manhattan Foodprint

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"What would it take to grow all the food needed for all Manhattanites – on Manhattan Island?" This video drives home the ecological impact of our current food production and consumption patterns – but then goes beyond that, to p. Read more »

The Open Source Urban Farm

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Refarm the City is a new wiki and a blog that seeks to provide open software and hardware for urban farmers. Read more »
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