On Urban Spaces:
Community Trees Project: www.communitytrees.org
The Billboard Liberation Front: www.billboardliberation.com
Project for Public Spaces: www.pps.org
NYC Garden Activists: www.treebranch.com/savegardens
Land Reclamation: counterproductiveindustries.com
The God Bless Graffiti Coalition, Inc. www.counterproductiveindustries.com/gbgc
Street Artists Forum: ekosystem.org
Social and Public Arts Resource Center: www.sparcmurals.org
University of the Streets Cafe: www.univcafe.org
"green roofs keep on growing"
- a fresh squeeze
"How to Make PaperCrete"
Eco-City Builders
Center for Sustainable Living:
www.centerforsustainableliving.org
The City Repair Project: www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/about
On Upcycling, Zero Waste and a Toxic-Free World:
Wastebusters: www.wastebusters.net.nz
GAIA (Global Alliance for Incineration Alternatives): www.no-burn.org
Greenpeace India: www.greenpeaceindia.org
Taiwan Watch: www.taiwanwatch.org.tw
Basel Action Network: www.ban.org
Toxic Links: www.toxiclinks.org
Zero Waste Kovalam: www.zerowastekovalam.org
Thanal, Kerala: www.thanal.org
Equitable Tourism: www.equitabletourism.org
CHINTAN: www.chintan-india.org
Computer Take Back: www.computertakeback.com
Zero Waste Tamil Nadu: www.sipcotcuddalore.com
Zero Waste Korea: www.wastezl.or.kr
Mother Earth Foundation: www.motherearth.ph
Green Crusaders: www.greencrusaders.com
"plastic bags are killing us"
- USA
"beautiful or safe?: toxic personal
care products" - a fresh squeeze
"the
slow poisoning of india" (film) - India
"polymers
are forever" - Orion magazine
"the truth about bio-plastic"
- a fresh squeeze
The Story of Stuff: www.storyofstuff.com
Zero Waste for Zero Warming: www.zerowarming.org
Recycle Bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFAJv6a2YA
The Humanure Handbook: weblife.org/humanure/default.html
Eco-Friendly Green Wedding:
http://www.mahajanam.org/mpeg.mpg
On Car-Free Transportation and Bicycle/Pedestrian Power:
Car Busters: www.carbusters.ecn.cz
Citystreets: www.citystreets.org
Critical Mass Hub: criticalmasshub.com
Car Free Cities guide: www.carfree.com
Transportation Alternatives: www.transalt.org
Bicycle Civil Liberties Union: www.bclu.org
Italian Car Free Advocates: digilander.iol.it/partizan
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium: www.lesscars.org
Spanish Language: www.laneta.apc.org/bicitekas
Body Cartography: www.bodycartography.org
National Center for Bicycling and Walking: www.bikewalk.org
New Mobility: http://newmobility.org
Walkable Communities, Inc.: www.walkable.org
Common Circle Expeditions: www.commoncircle.com
Pedal Power Produce: http://culturechange.org/pedalpowerproduce.html
Shake Your Peace: http://shakeyourpeace.com/
Pleasant Revolution: http://www.pleasantrevolution.net/
"a sustainable community
that's worth smiling about"- Australia
"clean
cars only go part way" - Orion magazine
"we don't smell the air"
- Down to Earth magazine
On Community Media and Expressions
Raw Vision – Outsider Art: www.rawvision.com
IndyMedia: http://www.indymedia.org/
Adbusters: www.adbusters.org
Action Coalition for Media Education: http://www.acmecoalition.org/
Media Awareness Network: www.media-awareness.ca/eng/
Cascadia Media – Guerilla Video Primer: http://www.cascadiamedia.org/galleries/gvp.html
Community Radio Network: http://www.communityradionetwork.org
Video Activist Network: http://www.videoactivism.org/
Bread and Puppet: http://www.gpdesigns.com/puppets/
International Theatre of the Oppressed: http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?useFlash=1
Les Grandes Personnes:www.lesgrandespersonnes.com
Dancers Without Borders: www.cultural-links.org/dwob.html
Street Level Youth Media: www.streetlevel.iit.edu
Image Magica: www.imagemagica.org.br
Social and Public Arts Resource Center: www.sparcmurals.org
Rupayan Sansthan: www.archive-india.org/rupayan_profile.html
The Beehive Collective: www.beehivecollective.org
Craft Revival: www.craftrevival.org
Jatyavarchi
Ovi (Maharashtrian women's folk song)
World Comics:
http://www.worldcomics.fi/home_about.shtml
AREA Chicago: http://www.areachicago.org
On City Farming (or "Political Horticulture"):
The Peoples' Grocery: http://peoplesgrocery.org/main.html
Gobar Times: http://www.gobartimes.org/gt20040315/gt_covfeature.htm
Family Farm Defenders: http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org
Container Gardens: http://www.arts4all.com/elca/cover.html
Food Not Lawns: www.foodnotlawns.com
Large-Scale On-site Community Farming:
http://www.wintergreenfarm.com/
Food and Society Conference 2008: http://www.foodandsociety2008.org/
On Water, Rainwater Harvesting:
Waterlution: www.waterlution.org
Water Conserve: www.waterconserve.info
Rainwater Harvesting: www.rainwaterharvesting.org
Metaefficient: www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/rain-water-harvesting/
Dry Toilets: www.drytoilet.org
Water Use It Wisely: www.wateruseitwisely.com/toolsLinks/
Center for Science and Environment: www.cseindia.org
Aquaduct: Mobile Filtration Unit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-mvfjyiao
Dr. Leo Rebello's Ten Commandments to Save Water
On Solar Energy and Healthy Cooking:
The Health Awareness Center (Mumbai) www.internetindia.com/health/thac/
Bryant Terry and Eat Grub: www.bryant-terry.com
www.solarschools.com
www.solarcooking.org
www.sunoven.com
www.solarbakeovens.com
www.solarcookers.co.za/
www.cc.jyu.fi/~hvirtane/cooker/
www.backwoodshome.com/articles/radabaugh30.html
www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/accessone/sunstar.htm
solarcooking.org/recipes/
frugalliving.about.com/od/solarcooking/
Healing the Planet with a Veg Diet
On Bio-Diesel and Alternative Car Energy:
www.makebiodiesel.com
www.cu-biodiesel.org
www.dieselveg.com
www.vegoilmotoring.com
www.greaseworks.org
www.biodiesel.org
www.voiceyourself.com
On Climate Change Initiatives:
Carbon Calculators - by the EPA; by Consumer Consequences; by Conservation International
Designing
Energy Descent Pathways
10 Things You Can Do
10 Reasons to Plant Trees
What Can We Do?
Indian Youth Climate Network
www.earthday.net
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org
www.climateprotect.org
www.liveearth.org
www.wecansolveit.org
www.americanforest.org
www.environmentaldefence.org
www.idealbite.org
www.afreshsqueeze,com
www.stepitup.org
www.climatecrisis.net
www.activitytv.com
Global Warming Presentation - Jagdish Shukhla
Other Experiences and Ideas in Learning Cities:
“Cities there must be in man’s civilization,
just as in higher organisms there must be organized centers of life, such as the brain,
heart or stomach. These never overwhelm the living wholeness of the body; on the contrary,
by a perfect federation of their functions, they maintain its richness. But a tumor round
which the blood is congested is the enemy of the whole body, which it feeds upon as it
swells. Our modern cities, in the same way,
feed upon the whole social organism that runs through the villages; they continually drain
away the life stuff of the community, and slough off a huge amount of dead matter, while
assuming a lurid counterfeit of prosperity.”
- Rabindranath Tagore, "City and
Village", 1924 |
City-Related Readings to Explore
Bookchin, Murray. From Urbanization to Cities: Towards a New Politics of
Citizenship. London: Cassell, 1992.
– “Can we give the city a new meaning, a new politics, a new sense of direction
— as well as provide new ideals of citizenship, many of which were in fact once
attained in varying degrees in previous times?”
Girardet, Herbert. Creating Sustainable Cities. Devon, UK: Green Books
and Schumacher Society, 1999. – “Can cities transform themselves into
self-regulating, sustainable systems – not only in their internal functioning, but
also in their relationship to the outside world?”
Low, Nicholas, et al, eds. Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the
Global Economy after the Rio Declaration. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
– “Not only has a globalised corporate sector pitted cities (as well as
nation-states) against one another in a nexus of market relations, but the entire global
system of corporate relations, of which city administrations are increasingly part, is
responsible for the health or sickness of the whole planetary environment.”
Mumford, Lewis. The Culture of Cities. New York: HBJ, 1938. –
“Today we begin to see that the improvement of cities is no matter of small one-sided
reforms: the task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization. We must alter the parasitic and predatory modes of
life that now play so large a part, and we must create region by region, continent by
continent, an effective symbiosis, or cooperative living together.”
Register, Richard and Brady Peeks, eds. Village Wisdom: Future Cities.
Oakland, USA: Ecocity Builders, 1996. – “Will these pages and words
change your life? Will they make many more of us believe we can change the way we build
and live? Will they give us new ways to stop the destruction of the natural world and get
on with building a truly creative, compassionate civilization right at the time its life
support systems are beginning to crumble in our hands?”
Schumacher, E.F. "No Future of
Megapolis" in This I Believe. Devon, UK: Green Books, 1997.
Short, John. The Human City: Cities As If People Matter. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1989. – “My aim is to find ways of enabling people to make
their own liveable cities and truly human places.”
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