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We are honored to co-host this international amputee football match in London today.
This is part of a broader program to develop and build adaptive sports facilities for communities in conflict.
Rebuilding after disaster.
Turkish: arkitera.com/haber/meslegimi…
English: dezeen.com/2023/02/08/turkey…
Worldchanging Institute retweeted
Earthquakes don't kill people, bad buildings do: How architects can respond to the tragedy in Turkey and Northern Syria.
dezeen.com/2023/02/08/turkey…
Worldchanging 2.0 is greatly updated; foreword by Van Jones, intro by Bill McKibben http://amzn.to/ek3jHo now available to pre-order
The new Worldchanging book http://amzn.to/ek3jHo will be available in UK bookstores March 1st, same as US.
RT @AlexSteffen Are we seeing a "Berlin Wall" moment with democracy in the Middle East?
"...and to glimpse a vision of what a bright green future might look like." -Bill McKibben, from the intro
"To read Worldchanging is to understand the range of solutions from which we can draw to build a workable future..."
New sections on everything from passive houses to post-ownership, greening megacities to remaking the ruins of the unsustainable.
Worldchanging 2.0 is greatly updated, partly a new edition, in some ways a whole new book. http://amzn.to/ek3jHo
RT @AlexSteffen Cities safer for kids than suburbs; esp for mid class families. Suburbs=more car crashes, murders. http://natpo.st/enLRkh
Reminded: tweets here stopping at the end of the month. Follow @AlexSteffen for more worldchanging thinking. Thanks!
Worldchanging Institute retweeted
As one small data point: world in 2050 expected to have 700-1000 cities with populations larger than 1 million: Europe today has 35 or so.
Worldchanging Institute retweeted
Those of us who live in already urbanized, demographically-stable countries have a really hard time grasping what's going on in the world...
Worldchanging Institute retweeted
I've used images of Shanghai 1990/2010) in talks http://j.mp/fy5vIw - illustrates reality of 200,000+ new urbanites/day...
FInally, for today, Worldchanging's new book is still coming out in March despite Worldchanging itself shutting down: http://bit.ly/bLsH50
Worldchanging Institute retweeted
Puts sensible observers in difficult spot: ignore facts of scope, scale+ speed, or say things that brand you an unreliable Beltway outsider.