A group of activists in the German capital are pushing an ambitious plan to eliminate private vehicles in the city center, an area twice as big as Manhattan. By Patrick Maynard, Yes, December 16, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2021/12/16/car-free-city-berlin The European Union’s largest economy has a long history with das auto, for better and worse. Many foreign tourists […]
For the 1st Time, Architecture’s Most Prestigious Prize is Awarded to 2 Women
Yvonne Farrell: ” . . . how we imagine ourselves optimistically with all the potential that architecture inherently has — to make new worlds and to make new futures.” By Neda Ullaby, NPR News, March 3, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811030441/in-a-first-architectures-most-prestigious-prize-is-awarded-to-two-women In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture […]
Children and Technology and Developing Eco-Villages
When I grew up I was outdoors a lot of the time. In the YouTube below, children explain their use of technology, and in the post below that, a start-up in the Netherlands is developing a vision of community living in sync with nature. . . Nature Valley Ad Shows Children and Their Relationship with […]
Update on the City of Light ~ Sedona
October 19, 2019 To the Golden Age of Gaia Lightworker Community ~ My name is Dr. Rick Cohen and I work closely with Genii Townsend helping to anchor in The City of Light Sedona. We’ve known about the exact City property location for a few years now, and have been able to go there frequently […]
The Cities of Light – Part 2/2
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The Cities of Light are a vast and fantastic subject; therefore my articles are only a bare bones introduction. I highly recommend listening to Linda Dillon’s complete series on SoundCloud. (1) This is how the Cities of Light journey commenced for Linda: At around the mid 1990’s, Linda began hearing […]
The Cities of Light – Part 1/2
Introduction I was a small child when I saw my first City of Light. It was the first City of Light thousands of children see: “The Emerald City” in Victor Fleming’s 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion longingly gaze across a poppy field at a sparkling green […]