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Design for Multi-Species Cities
Background reading for a workshop: "Design an urban ecology tool, equipment, place, or experience, that will enhance the interdependence of all life in practical ways".
Designing for Life in Practice: 80 Case Study Collections
Creating a new world among the ruins of the old: Here are 80+ collections of stories about people designing for life in practice
Social Food Green Paper
Agriculture and food are not just about production and consumption - they are about relationships, too
Food Systems and Design
new ways to think about food and food systems - how to be, as well as what to do, in a food context
Wild Learning: 96 Ecological Learning Resources
We allowed the metabolic interaction between man and the earth to wither - but these educators are working on a cure.
The True And Hidden Costs Of Stuff
Do you simply love iPhones, wind turbines, cloud computing, and electric cars? Good, because the following may be of interest:
How To Curate A Social Harvest Festival
A big part of social innovation involves connecting people with each other in ways that are inclusive, uncomplicated, inexpensive, and joyful.
Design Grammars for Health and Care
Health and wellbeing are properties of social-ecological systems - so how you design in those?
Relocalising? 100 Locally Needed Skills
From fish smokers to button makers - there's so much to do.
The Five Skills Of A Resilience Impresario
How to develop a shared vision among multiple stakeholders - and the other capabilities we need.
Eight Commons Design Principles
Rules that would prevent us from over-harvesting the Commons.
12 Principles Guiding An Holistic, True Cost, Economy
When and how to choose between ownership, stewardship, and partnership.
20 Elements Of Green Infrastructure
What is a 'living system'? Here are 20 elements of a green infrastructure.
28 Ways In Which Food Systems Are a Design Opportunity
127 calories of energy are used to grow a lettuce for each calory we eat. One bottle of ketchup entails 52 transport and process stages. Does that sound sensible?
The Ethics Of Innovation In 25 Common Sense Commandments
"We will deliver value to people — not deliver people to systems" - and 17 other easily followed rules
Ten Power Laws Of Innovation
"Don't think 'new product' - think social and ecological value". Plus nine other rules.