Multi-Sectoral
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GLF Africa 2025: Innovate, Restore, Prosper
This event will be conducted in person in Nairobi, Kenya and it also provides for virtual participation for those who cannot be there.
From the website: "Africa’s landscapes are facing a triple crisis: land degradation, biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. Nature is declining, land is...
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Future building: towards a sustainable habitat
Covering a wide variety of socio-economic contexts, the stories range from the global south to the global north, from low-tech to high-tech, from small-scale construction rediscovering local materials to urban-scale approaches that promote inclusion, and more.
This will be a useful read for those...
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Natural Farming Through a Wide-Angle Lens: True Cost Accounting Study of Community Managed Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh, India
Excerpt: "Adopting APCNF led to greater crop diversity, similar or higher yields, higher incomes for farmers, lower input costs, improved local economies, improved social networks, improved health, and reduced health costs. Overall, APCNF gave highly positive returns on public investment, suggesting...
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RSD12 Systemic Design Association Conference: Entanglements of Interest
Excerpt: "RSD12: Entangled in Emergence will use four “entanglements of interest,” to group topics and submissions from multiple perspectives. These entanglements — natural, technological, political and foundational — situate systemic design and designers within the interconnected questions...
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Lisboa Regenerativa: Mapping the Ecosystem
Balancing the power of tech with conscious awareness, we are building a physical network of regenerative leaders and spaces across the city. We’re building partnerships with public, private, and third-sector institutions as well as environmental, ecological, social, and cultural thought leaders.
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Citizen Action: As Federal Climate-Fighting Tools Are Taken Away, Cities and States Step Up
Story details how state and local level actions involving citizen's initiatives and juries in different configurations are making headway in regional planning and initiatives for climate change and more.
"Across the country, local governments are accelerating their efforts to cut greenhouse gas...
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The DisCO Governance Model
DisCOs is a P2P/Commons, cooperative and Feminist Economic alternative to Decentralised Autonomous Organizations (or DAOs).
Distributed Cooperative Organization is a clunky name that, while accurate, fortunately reduces to “DisCO” which is a lot easier to remember. The DisCO (read all about it in...
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Main Street Journal
This newsletter, published every other Thursday, will expand the audience, reach, and power of the emerging local investment movement in the United States. We believe that shifting even a small fraction of the tens of trillions Americans have invested in Wall Street, to local businesses, projects...
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The Nature of Cities TNOC