Sustainability

Three Days Of Solidarity, Creativity & Sustainability

May 23, 2014 AthensFest, www.festival4sce.org Create! Greece, Solidarity, Sustainability

The Alternative Festival of Cooperative & Solidarity Economy invites you to a three-day event on Solidarity, Creativity and Sustainability, held at the Self-managed Camping of Voula (Athens) from May 30 to June 1, 2014. We consider that the so-called “crisis”* is mainly a crisis of consciousness and we counterpropose another world that we can create right now; a world that fosters communication, exchange and transition practices for a society based on participation, self-management, solidarity and respect for nature and human beings; a world that is evolving constantly and dynamically towards a new system of values beyond the existing models of smug individualism, excessive consumerism and the sacrifice of everything on the altar of profit. We no longer accept this world and we create today the conditions for its transcendence. Our three-day event, during which we affirm through practical workshops that we can now work altogether to create the conditions of the “New” and overcome the “Old”, is harmonized with the context of this new global reasoning. Our choice of the Self-managed Camping of Voula as the hosting place of this event reflects our belief that the processes of management, decision-making, use and care of public spaces are purely political acts concerning the societies themselves and not some representatives who decide for citizens without citizens.

Solutions Movement Takes Root In Northern California

May 10, 2014 Michael Levitin, www.occupy.com Create! California, New Economy, Sustainability

There’s a new currency here called Bay Bucks that’s helping businesses trade in services and get off the dollar. There’s a new agriculture-tech startup called CropMobster helping redistribute excess produce and cut down on food waste. And a new electricity provider, Sonoma Clean Power, just flipped on the switch May 1 to supply tens of thousands of Sonoma County residents and businesses with renewable energy. Call it the Solutions Movement. Something is stirring in northern California and it feels a lot like the future – not the Android kind, and definitely not the Wall Street kind, but a more abundant, collective form of wealth that's being generated in a community whose new energy, food and economic systems seem to be falling in sync. The takeaway from last week's Sustainable Enterprise Conference, held in Rohnert Park an hour north of San Francisco, is that the future here looks sustainable because people believe it can and must be so. As Gil Friend, chief sustainability officer for the City of Palo Alto – which delivers carbon-neutral electricity to all of its commercial and residential customers at a cheaper rate than the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric – put it: "What we’re here to do is to transform the economy of the planet – and to do it in one generation. Cities have an enormous opportunity to drive this change [through] the policies and initiatives we enact."

28 College Teams to Compete in Sustainable Design Challenge

April 25, 2014 Brandon Baker, www.ecowatch.com Create! Sustainability

It’s time for college students in the U.S. and Canada to show their sustainable homebuilding skills. Twenty-eight teams are embarking on Golden, CO this weekend to take part in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Challenge Home Student Design Competition. Before a panel of industry experts gathered at the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the teams will present zero-energy ready home designs for the chance to win an award and recognition around North America. The idea is for the DOE and NREL to help breed architects and engineers that focus on sustainability. Teams will be judged on design and construction packages, project plans and energy-saving strategies, according to an NREL statement. “The competition will provide the next generation of architects, engineers, construction managers and entrepreneurs with skills and experience that can support careers in the expanding field of energy efficiency and renewable energy,” the statement reads.

Grow Heathrow Combines Resistance And Creation

January 26, 2014 Staff, www.theoccupiedtimes.org Create! Permaculture, Sustainability

In the three and a half years we’ve lived on this site whole areas of life opened up to me which I just didn’t even begin to factor in. The largest factor has been our Wellbeing Group. We knew we were going to be into using non-fossil fuels and DIY, skill sharing, building and growing food and so on. These ideas were all present at the start of the project. But the idea of having to learn how to cope with living in a collective where one person’s emotional trauma from their childhood starts fucking up your life and everyone else’s interactions on a daily level… how do you begin to deal with that? You have to learn a whole load of stuff, around psychology, psychotherapy, group dynamics, stuff that none of us who started the project had a clue about. Stuff that we’ve had to learn in order to survive. So that all becomes part of what it means to be resilient, how do you do that as a collective?

Growing Movement Puts Sustainability, Community In Forefront

January 25, 2014 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Create! Food and Agriculture, Sustainability

Reporting by Agence France-Presse puts a spotlight on this global movement—the Slow City movement, or "Cittaslow"—which hopes to provide an "antidote against negative globalization." "Cittaslow is about appreciating what we are and what we have, without being self-destructive and depleting values, money and resources," Pier Giorgio Oliveti, director of Cittaslow, told AFP. Cittaslow, headquartered in Orvieto, Italy, got its start 15 years ago in a small Tuscan town "to enlarge the philosophy of Slow Food to local communities," and now boasts roughly 160 towns spanning 28 countries. Cittaslow's website explains that Slow Cities "are strong communities that have made the choice to improve the quality of life for their inhabitants."

Cities Are Addressing Sustainable Development

January 15, 2014 Mauro Small, www.triplepundit.com Create! Energy, Food and Agriculture, Housing, Sustainability

Planning for smart municipal growth is crucial for achieving long term sustainability. Affordable, energy efficient housing, and green spaces are components of sustainable cities in the future. In Paris, this vision is already taking shape at Parc Clichy-Batignolles, a 133-acre development in the 17th arrondissement. The city has reclaimed land formerly used as railroad freight yards to build a sustainable community. The central park features low maintenance plants, wind turbines, solar collectors and a rainwater harvesting system. Building sustainability into a city’s infrastructure creates long-term livability, jobs and increases the quality of life. Planning for a low carbon future, while preserving resources such as water and green space, is critical in terms of meeting the challenges of climate change and population growth.

Video: Can This Current Way of Life Continue?

September 22, 2013 Incubate Pictures, www.incubatepictures.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Sustainability, Video

Combining graphs and other visual examples in animation, this short film goes through the issues surrounding the collapse of industrial civilisation–by collating the interconnectedness of energy depletion, carrying capacity, population growth, peak natural resource extraction, and other issues with the problems of exponential economic growth on a finite planet. Can this current way of life continue? The film takes us through these problems and also examines some of the many flaws inherent in some proposed solutions, such as ‘change-by-personal-consumer-choice’, or the vague belief in technology as the deus ex machina to save the day.

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