Caption: "Sadly, the only proven way to achieve global GHG reductions so far has been economic recession." Comment: Fortunately, shifting to 100% renewables would catalyze the global transition to durable prosperity and community well-being in a way that would eliminate GHG production AND grow the economy <<continued>>. (See also: strategic sustainability, natural capitalism, its four strategies, and RMI's Reinventing Fire [energy] Program.)
Quick access to key sustainability resources from an emerging whole systems and critical-path perspective: pioneers, leaders, powerful ideas, path-breaking initiatives, beyond best practices, important events. Comment. Search. Go to the Sust-Clips Index of categories. See also: the State of Sustainability (SOS)TM Journal for commentary.
June 30, 2013 at 12:15PM 
Citymart.com is the result of a journey that started in 2003 as an initiative to promote cities as real-life laboratories for services in cities. In 2008, Living Labs Global was
May 18, 2013 at 07:54PM The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a vision of hope and a call to action.
April 29, 2013 at 06:46PM 
The Skoll Global Threats Fund’s mission is to confront global threats imperiling humanity by seeking solutions, strengthening alliances, and spurring actions needed to safeguard the future. Read their interpretation of global threats and solutions.March 31, 2013 at 09:36PM Join ex Planning Technology Division President and Professor Jennifer Evans-Cowley @EvansCowley) (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration, Professor of City and Regional Planning, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University) in a new on-line course--TechniCity (click the link, review the class, register)--on smart cities and associated technology to be held in May. Learn not only about smart cities, but about on-line communication and teching technology itself as you particiapte in the on-line class.
Here is a recent e-mail reminder about the course:
March 20, 2013 at 08:54PM Passive House California held their symposium today with policy-makers, industry leaders, architects, and builders to begin charting a course to net zero energy building performance. It focused on large-scale commercial, institutional and educational projects and how cities and regions can implement Net Zero strategies and discuss what the impediments (and incentives) are for doing so now.
January 1, 2013 at 05:43PM Good news from Germany: A ‘global transformation of values has already begun’. It’s proving tough to leverage changing attitudes into sustainable behaviour — but a transition to a more sustainable society ‘would be welcomed by a significant part of world society’.
December 22, 2012 at 04:16PM Welcome to Synergetics on the Web. This is one of several websites focusing in some way on an invented language, originally designed by R. Buckminster Fuller (b. July 12, 1895, d. July 1, 1983) to communicate his "explorations in the geometry of thinking" (the subtitle of the work).
December 11, 2012 at 08:08PM BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES 2013 BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE CYCLE > AND EXPANDED AWARD OPPORTUNITIES > FOR DESIGN CHALLENGE TO SOLVE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS.
December 3, 2012 at 06:59PM AmericaSpeaks designs and facilitates large-scale town meetings on public policy issues that replicate the creative dialogue of old-school, small town meetings. Take their tour of their 21st Century Town Meeting.
Ken Snyder, at PlaceMatters.org, has been designing powerful public planning processes for the past 15 years, including the innovative and powerful visualization and scenario modeling software, CommunityViz. His past tools work is summarized in this paper, Tools for Community Design and Decision Making.
November 29, 2012 at 10:14PM The first free online planning course, TechniCity, will be offered (May 2013) as part of The Ohio State University’s new Coursera offerings. Coursera offers a platform to teach thousands of students across the globe. The course explores how the increasing availability of networks, sensors and mobile technologies allows for new approaches to address the challenges that our cities face. It will cover how cities are changing, how technology is used to engage with the public to support decision-making, tools for analyzing the city, the infrastructure that makes the real time city possible, and how creativity can spawn technological innovation. (Read more at Planetizen.)
November 29, 2012 at 08:42PM A 5-week course in Norway in spring 2013. A service of the Millennium Institute, dedicated to systems dynamic modeling.
November 28, 2012 at 08:45PM Story from the Biomimicry Institute and about their new certification program.
Marie Zanowick had waited 25 years for biomimicry. From an early age, she knew she would dedicate her life to caring for the planet. She studied biology, public health, and civil engineering, and joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. While fulfilled by her work, the slow pace of change within public service proved frustrating. In 2008 Marie
November 27, 2012 at 07:39PM Alex Steffen, former Seattleite and recent Berkeley transplant and author of Worldchanging has a new book out called Carbon Zero (December 2012).
October 31, 2012 at 06:11PM The book--The Climate Solutions Consensus: What We Know and What To Do About It--presents the consensus of the more than 1,300 scientists, educators, students, environmentalists, policymakers, business leaders and other citizens who attended NCSE's 8th National Conference on Climate Change: Science and Solutions in January 2008.
October 29, 2012 at 07:37PM In landfilling only 4% of it's solid waste stream, Sweden is a leader in the waste-to-energy approach. It is a key component of its environmental policy.
Approximately 50% is recycled and 46% is used in a waste to energy system that reduces GHGs, emits only incidental quantities of toxic material, saves the burning of oil for the equivalent of 680,000 cars per year.
October 21, 2012 at 11:56AM Regarding a recent discussion with a colleague on the topic of indicators in general and sustainability indicators in particular, the key take-away ideas for me are as follows:
1. The value of info is in the difference it makes to decision making and accomplishments. If it does not change a decision that produces higher value than otherwise, the info is worthless, actually negative because it costs money.
2. Key tripping point is the conceptual foundation
August 5, 2012 at 05:05PM See this reading list to acquire a good sense of what a serious approach to sustainability means, and possibly a little good reading too.
The list is from The Natural Edge Project in Australia (see the TNEP post below) for the stated purpose of "Enabling Rapid Sustainability Curricula Reform in the Tertiary Sector." Many of the publications are available for free on line, and some are even used as course texts in courses at the London School of Economics and elsewhere). (For a copy of the list from TNEP, go here, then to main menu tab "Downloads and Resources," then choose the 3rd dropdown item "University Reading List.")
