What does building capacity for regenerative communities mean to me? This is my perspective in brief. Regenerative systems development focuses not solely on reducing resource extraction and its impact (on Earth and each other), but -above all- on (re)connecting and…
Why so much is going wrong at the same time Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis? By Thomas Homer-Dixon. Published in Vox, Oct 18, 2023 Is the world facing a “polycrisis”? Is there even…
In this blog post, I’d like to highlight the All We Can Save project, an initiative who’s mission is “to nurture the leaderful climate community we need for a life-giving future”. Offerings:
In this post, I briefly explore the concept, principles, and practices of holistic urban productivity or regenerative sustainability as an emerging theory in Sustainable Community Development (SCD) and I introduce a conceptual framework for regenerative urban sustainability. The full paper…
Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments, 5th edition Mark Roseland, Margaret Stout, and Maria Spiliotopoulou ISBN: 9780865719743 The book is now available to order as paperback and ebook. See photos from the book launch here and a one-minute…
By Cole Thompson, April 6, 2023. Reposted from The Steady State Herald. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is attracting great attention as working AI systems become accessible to the public. The AI claim is that it can digest the mass of…
New research article I co-authored, just published online by Elsevier’s Sustainable Cities and Society. Vigier, M., Ouellet-Plamondon, C. M., Spiliotopoulou, M., Moore, J., & Rees, W. E. (2023). To what extent is sustainability addressed at urban scale and how aligned…
