Author Archives: Aleksandar Janicijevic

David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon

The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland. The naturalist was chosen to represent the world’s people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris […]

Posted by on December 3, 2018

Financing Civic Futures – Building Civic Capital

On the occasion of the inaugural Future Cities Summit, we are sharing this provocation. At the Summit we have heard multifaceted perspectives on the great transition that our cities are facing, from addressing the challenges of the future of work, inequality, planning, affordability, climate change, resilience and next generation governance to name but a few. […]

Posted by on November 30, 2018

25 Great Ideas of New Urbanism

This might not be directly related to Resilience 2 to 1, but material explored here is very valuable source of new ideas. [A.J.] The 25 ideas explored here highlight the ongoing impact of New Urbanism on communities and the built environment. Not all of these ideas were invented by new urbanists, but new urbanists have […]

Posted by on November 10, 2018

Huge responsibility for the world

Saw this just now. Seems Canada has a huge responsibility for the world’s remaining biocapacity. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals Five countries hold 70% of world’s last wildernesses, map … www.theguardian.com A Xikrin woman walks back to her village from the Cateté River in Brazil. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/Getty Images Just five countries hold 70% of the world’s remaining untouched […]

Posted by on October 31, 2018

Don’t despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is – Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian

Best optimistic article after IPCC Report! Don’t despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian Link to the whole article After the panicky IPCC report on climate change, it’s easy for pessimism to set in – but that would be conceding defeat. The future hasn’t already been […]

Posted by on October 31, 2018

The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future

The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future Boyd, David R. [ https://ecwpress.com/products/optimistic-environmentalist ] A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a […]

Posted by on October 30, 2018

Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

New assessment from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. This US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration – A Research Agenda (2018) Spread the word

Posted by on October 29, 2018

Photos – DEEP RESILIENCE: 23, 24 and 25 October 2018 – Day 1

This very successful presentation was finished yesterday. All the photos from this event are posted here and can be used for free, with just one condition, let everybody know where they were taken! Spread the word

Posted by on October 26, 2018

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