New urbanism serves as a great model for building neighborhoods, communities and towns that embody diversity, walkability, complexity, and diversity. When done right, as Andres Duany reminds us, they are calibrated to their place, which is often missing in many cookie-cutter new urbanism communities. While prescriptive, they allow for flexibility and a way to opt…
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(To be a Rhizome guest blogger, contact anelson@biohabitats.com) The value of the Colorado River is mounting as its reserves diminish. An increasing number of people are beginning to depend on it for their water supply, yet the river is not being replenished at a rate that makes this population growth sustainable. For this reason, many…
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"E. O. Wilson wants to know why you’re not protesting in the streets" (Grist) So why aren’t we protesting in the streets…and the forests, rivers, wetlands, and prairies?…
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California plans up to $17 billion in flood protection improvements throughout the state's floodprone Central Valley, according to Civil Engineering (March, 2012). The Central Valley is supposed to flood. The problem is that billions of dollars have been invested in agricultural production on the floodplain, so it needs to be protected…or does…
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by Keith Bowers Ok, let's put aside political differences and human rights issues (we will surely return to these) and focus on the landscape of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). During the Korean War, much of the northern peninsula of Korea was ravaged, including its forest and watersheds. Since the 1950s, a…
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Envision a coral reef.What do you see? A dazzling, vivid, underwater rainforest teeming with aquatic life? If so, it's not surprising. Coral reefs are, after all, among the most complex ecosystems on the planet, and home to more than 4,000 species of fish, 700 species of coral, and thousands of other plants and animals. Known…
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DPKR official presenting during the seminar.Imagine an entire country of 24 million people undergoing massive deforestation, land degradation and food shortages, leading to ecosystem collapse. Now imagine that country’s people having virtually no contact with the outside world and being ruled by a hard-line communist regime. What do you do? How can you help? You…
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Dr. Peter May, BiohabitatsI'm at the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER) conference closing and the beginning of our Society business meeting. A report from the "Prosporous Way Down" (PWD) committee I joined this week outlines our next steps toward advancing the concepts, ideas and theories of steps toward global de-growth as…
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By Keith Bowers, President, BiohabitatsThere is a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream." The show, in which five teams of architects have been rethinking housing in American cities and suburbs in light of the foreclosure crisis, has been getting a great deal of press recently, including the…
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"Protect biodiversity at all costs." For many of us involved in conservation planning and ecological restoration, this has been our mantra. But with climate change and human population influencing nature in ways we may never fully understand, and at astounding speeds, new ecosystems never before seen are on the rise.These new, or 'novel' ecosystems include…
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