Mayor Gavin Newsom, “Cities and Time”
April 9th, 02009 by Stewart Brand
Sustainable cities
Mayor Newsom began with how moved he was by hosting the UN’s World Environment Day in San Francisco in 2005. For that event, which was called “Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!”, he invited 120 mayors from around the world. Days of intense discussion led to the publication of 21 policy principles for building permanently sustainable cities, in the areas of energy, waste, design, nature, transportation, health, and water. Cities, Newsom said, consume 75% of natural resources and are responsible for 75% of pollution.
He became determined to help make San Francisco the Greenest city in the world….
Read the rest of Stewart Brand’s Summary
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Posted on April 9th, 2009 at 11:29 am
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Posted on April 11th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place ( http://www.betterplace.com ) would make an excellent Long Now guest.
Posted on April 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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Posted on April 15th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Tweeted (with difficulty) at http://twitter.com/deEscalate — you really need to include podcast subscription links and direct links to the audio in posts like these.
Posted on April 15th, 2009 at 6:54 am
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Posted on April 15th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I agree with De-escalate. It doesn’t make much sense to blog the seminars without linking to the mp3 files ….
Posted on April 28th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
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