Vehicles are moving far beyond driving….
One story stuck in my mind when I read ReThinkX’s predictions of the future. It was about how the people who made and operated horse drawn carriages in the…
How Canada led the way in private refugee sponsorship
The United States has just launched a private sponsorship program that will enable Americans to sponsor refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Program, directly supporting their resettlement in…
Stories from the ‘Kitchen Front’
There is a powerful moment near the end of Marilyn Waring’s wonderful TED talk in which she eviscerates the GDP as the only way to measure our economy. People…
Solar farms on landfills and the ocean….
Solar panels and farms are branching out in unexpected ways, and in the process, helping solve one of the earlier criticisms of solar farms – they take up land…
The green infrastructure of sponge cities ….
It used to be that cemented channels and underground piping in cities controlled storm flows so water would run off quickly….but now such ‘gray’ infrastructure is being replaced by the green infrastructure of ‘sponge cities’,…
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The vaccine that is saving millions of women
When I worked on community mobilization in a USAID-funded project in western Serbia two decades ago, developing ‘community social service projects’ was a challenge because of the perceptual divide between villagers and the experts in…
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This London street is a power station
The ‘two loops model” helps me understand how things are changing around us. It shows how the dominant system developed and then starts running down; and as that happens, alternatives start to develop. It is…
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When the ‘engine’ analogy sputters
I was listening to a Foreign Policy discussion this morning about the future of war when the difference between ‘machines’ and ‘ecosystems’ popped into my mind as I heard the commentators talking about Russia’s invasion…
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Hopebuilding 