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Welcome to Gas City
What is Gas City, you ask? It is Gas Town, but torn apart and rewritten from the ground up as an SDK for building your own dark factories…
Welcome to Gas City
What is Gas City, you ask? It is Gas Town, but torn apart and rewritten from the ground up as an SDK for building your own dark factories…
Wildland: Why, What and How?
We are excited to present the paper outlining the project’s high-level rationale, as well as some nuts and bolts of this initiative.
Urban problems: nature-based solutions and a Green New Deal everywhere
Nature-based Solutions with localised Green New Deals could save our settlements, and provide a just transition to a low-carbon society
Gas Town: from Clown Show to v1.0
TL;DR: Gas Town and Beads have both released version 1.0.0 today. Enjoy!
Gas-Lit
If it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that’s because there isn’t one.
Circular economy in demolition: Repurposing waste to fuel new builds
Evelyn Long discusses the importance of the UK’s circular economy in demolition and how it should not only be maintained, but pushed further
Flânerie without Politics: The Middle-Class Fetishization of the City
The middle-class spectacle of urban decay.
Social Influence and Action — Jen Christiansen
I’m wary of climate solutions that are hyper focused on the action of individuals as opposed to systems and corporations. Do you experience carbon footprint guilt every time you board a plane to visit family too? Well, that whole schema was a product of the PR firm Ogilvy & Mather for British Petroleum. It was an effort to shift focus away from oil companies and onto individual responsibility to lower greenhouse gas emissions. For more, read “The carbon footprint sham” by Mark Kaufman for Mashable in 2021, and “Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook” by Rebecca Solnit for The Guardian.
In Defense of Inefficiency
Home - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Our mission is to envision a just and regenerative economy; apply the concepts locally; then share the results for broad replication. Programs Library Lectures & Publications The Decentralism File Community Land Trust Local Currencies Reinventing The Commons All Programs eNewsletters All News “Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in … Continued
Change Agent
The journey of a thousand miles begins…with having some idea of where you ought to go.
