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How Green Is Your City?
Our local communities provide us with some of our most important needs: access to basic materials like food and water; essential services like public safety, transportation infrastructure, and education for our children; and, not least, the social and cultural contexts through which we make sense of the world. We organize in communities to provide for the common good — especially in the face of problems larger than what one person or one family can face.
The complex and interconnected challenges of the 21st century were largely created by what we humans have accomplished by working together for economic and technological progress. We'll need to work together to solve these challenges, and build resilient communities will thrive in this new world of economic, energy and environmental uncertainty.
Long before going green was chic, Majora Carter recognised an urgent need in communities that were hard-pressed to find even a park. Carter talked to NBCs Anne Thompson about her ongoing efforts to bring environmental justice to inner cities.
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David Orr was in the UK recently, and the two of us were part of a panel at an event organised by the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. After the event, we retired to the bar … >>
[Excerpt] When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of Burlington, Vermont, in 1998, "we'd landed in what we thought was our dream … >>
Energy Scarcity and the Path to Energy, Economic, and Environmental Recovery Post Carbon's proposal for the Obama Administration's response to economic, environmental, and energy challenges. … >>
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, … >>
Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg addresses the question of whether any combination of known energy sources can successfully supply society’s energy needs at least up to the year 2100.
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what is pci?Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. The Institute has gathered 28 of the world's leading experts on a wide range of interdependent social and scientific issues.
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