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When it comes to the post disaster space, a major ‘lesson’ from the 1980s and 1990s U.S. military humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations is that effectiveness (protecting lives and property, reducing future risks, efficient resource use) requires coordination across organizations and coordination across phases. By ‘phases’, these can be summarized as the Three Rs: Relief: Life saving […]

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Food waste is a serious challenge. Often said, there is more than enough food to feed humanity enough calories if we didn’t waste so much food. In the developing world, that food is mainly wasted before it gets near the consumer. In the developed world, that waste occurs mainly close to or by the consumer. […]

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One of the nation’s most important (and sadly too little discussed) intercollegiate competitions is about to open in Washington, DC: the biennial Solar Decathlon.  For two weeks, 19 university teams from around the globe will compete across ten categories (thus, “decathlon”) that show the house works (can they get household chores and tasks done, like […]

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This guest post from CitiSven (A World of Words) discusses the work being done to develop an international standard for EcoCities. Some of you may be familiar with my diaries about ecocities. From Venice and Istanbul to West Oakland, I’ve written about urban areas within an ecocity context, and I’m about to launch another series […]

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