Want to build a better future for your city and your fellow citizens? Start by considering these eight sets of questions to ask yourself about your city. Once you can answer them, you will have a better understanding of your impact, which you can then improve. If we apply ourselves to changing our cities and the way in which we live in... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
How wasteful are you? How much stuff do people in your city consume? How many of the items that they buy are disposable? How easy is it to join a library, rent a... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
From where does your heat come? What are the temperature ranges where you live, and how are those expected to change? How much of the heating and cooling in your... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
From where does your electricity come? What portion of it was generated using fossil fuels? What are the best sources of clean energy where you live? How do you... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
How well do you eat? Is fresh and local food readily available, and where is food grown in your area? Are people there more overweight than average, and are they... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
Where do you live? How is your city laid out, and how is it growing (or shrinking)? How many people live in neighborhoods where a main street of shops is within a... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
Where does your water come from? How much of it fell from the skies as rain and snow, and how much of it came from aquifers? How fast are those aquifers being... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
Who lives in your city? How many people? How many children? Is the population growing or shrinking, and how fast? How does the birth rate compare to other cities?... Read & Discuss 
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a look at an overview of all eight.
How much greenery surrounds you? Are street trees, parks, and gardens common in your community? How about natural drainage systems and green roofs? What sort of... Read & Discuss 
This is the second part of a series about the ways we can redesign our cities to solve the climate crisis. Read the previous entry, "Building a Better Future: A Crash Course on Climate Change."
How to Make Your City Better
Here's the rub: those cities (read the previous entry), by and large, don't exist yet, except in... Read & Discuss 
We asked Alex Steffen of WorldChanging to imagine what victory in fight against climate change might look like. While there are global doubts about whatever the outcome of the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen will be—especially because the countries involved have already committed to not making any binding agreements until later in... Read & Discuss 
That which is unsustainable cannot go on. Unsustainable things that are propped up too long snap and collapse suddenly. Our way of life is unsustainable. The sooner we transform our economy into one that can generate sustainable prosperity, the better off we’ll be, and with every passing day, the risks of catastrophe grow... Read & Discuss 
Alex Steffen says solving our current planetary crisis could lead to an unimaginably good future. Here’s how we get there.
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We are at a moment unique in human history, when we are using the planet’s bio-capacity so quickly that we risk a catastrophic collision with... Read & Discuss 
