- List of initiatives in GROUPS
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CONCEPT:
Allotment (gardening):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29
Common land:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_land
Commons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
http://liminalzones.kein.org/node/28
Community gardening:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_gardening
Faisal Devji, 'Welcome to Dubai, the society that capitalism built" (Financial Times, 2007):
http://potrc.org/b/nw/welcome-to-dubai-society-that.html
Instructions for urban agriculture, Caracas, 2003 (originally from Cuba)
http://potrc.org/b/urbanagriculture/instructions/
Mike Davis, 'Dubai: Sinister Paradise':
http://motherjones.com/environment/2005/07/dubai-sinister-paradise
Patrick Geddes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Geddes
Post-Oil Cities:
http://www.postoilcities.org/
RUAF Foundation (Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security):
http://www.ruaf.org/
Women Feeding Cities:
http://www.database.ruaf.org/gender/index.htm
Serge Latouche: 'Declaration of Degrowth'
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Serge Latouche, Why less should be so much more; Degrowth economics
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Serge Latouche, How do we learn to want less? The globe downshifted
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Serge Latouche, On Ecological Utopias
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Serge Latouche, Sustainable Development as Paradox
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Slow Food Movement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_food
The International Development Research Centre:
Food and Agriculture:
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-23584-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Victory garden:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
Watercone:
http://www.watercone.com/product.html
Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Molly Nesbit talk to Yona Friedman:
'Everyone's an Architect'
The Future Predictions:
http://potrc.org/b/future_predictions/
Constant:
New Babylon:
http://www.notbored.org/new-babylon.html
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SUSTAINABILITY:
Volume #18 - After Zero:
http://volumeproject.org/blog/2009/02/18/online-special-the-complex-history-of-sustainability/
The Complex History of Sustainability:
http://archis.org/history-of-sustainability/
The Complex History of Sustainability is a timeline of trends, authors, projects and fiction made by Amir Djalali, with Piet Vollaard.
Stealth, Architecture Venice Biennial:
http://www.facultiesforarchitecture.org/program.php
Listen to discussions and download the Books.
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ARTISTS:
Agnes Denes, USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Denes
Photos of her work are on the web.
Amy Franchesini:
'Victory Gardens 2007+'
Exyzt, France:
http://www.exyzt.org/?page_id=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNuid1_QI1s
Everything But a Slice of Bread, the Netherlands:
http://www.everythingbutasliceofbread.nl/
Fernando Schiavano, Italy:
http://visiteadomicilio.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-casa-di-med.html
Fritz Haeg, USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haeg
Edible estates:
http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/edibleestates/main.html
Jeanne van Heeswijk, The Netherlands:
http://www.jeanneworks.net/
Joseph Beuys, Germany:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys
Social Sculpture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sculpture
Lucy and Horge Orta:
http://www.studio-orta.com/
Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Land
http://www.thelandfoundation.org/?About_the_land
Yona Friedman, "Urban Agriculture" (Pro Domo, published by Actar):
http://potrc.org/b/nw/yona/index.html
Wapke Feenstra, The Netherlands:
http://www.wapke.nl/
www.myvillages.org
Lucia Babina:
www.luciababina.net
'Singingchairs', the NAi event when 60 residents of Rotterdam talked
http://www.luciababina.net/projects.html#info7
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AUSTRIA:
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra:
http://www.gemueseorchester.org
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BRAZIL:
Birdwatchers (film by Marco Bechis):
http://www.birdwatchersfilm.com/
Is Curitiba Brazil a Green City?
http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-curitiba-brazil-green-city.html
Pee in the Shower (For the Environment):
http://www.sustainlane.com/reviews/brazil-pee-in-the-shower-for-the-environment/LTQLXMNINVF23RUSH2K2HZO9R98X
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CANADA:
City Farmer News:
http://www.cityfarmer.info/
international links
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INDIA:
Babudom goes green:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ahmedabad/Babudom-goes-green-for-Rs-5-crore/articleshow/4641859.cms
Bangalores green warriors:
http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/15235811/Bangalore8217s-green-warrio.html
Barefoot College:
http://www.barefootcollege.org/
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ITALY:
ASC, Agenzia Sociale per la Casa:
http://agenziasocialeperlacasa.blogspot.com
Crepeurbane:
http://crepeurbane.noblogs.org/
Francesco Giavazzi:
Le quattro questioni vitali per Venezia, Corriere della sera, Jan.19, 2010 (attachment)
Giorgio Bombieri and Emanuel Lancerini, "Territori Lenti", Venice, 2008:
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Re-biennale:
http://www.rebiennale.org/
Morion:
http://morion.samizdat.net/
Venezia non e un Albergo:
http://40xvenezia.ning.com
100x100pubblica:
http://www.100x100pubblica.it/
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TAIWAN:
Hsieh Ying-chun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsieh_Ying-chun
http://www.atelier-3.com/mediawiki/index.php/Home
Earth House 003:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5710760207904053400#
Sustainable Developments in Practice:
http://www.livingsteel.org/sustainable-developments-in-practice
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THE NETHERLANDS:
Public Amusement, The Netherlands:
http://www.public-amusement.nl
Raumlabor, "Acting in Public", Berlin, 2008:
http://potrc.org/b/nw/
Refunc:
http://www.refunc.nl/refunc/
SWOMP - A freestate:
http://swomp.wordpress.com/
The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour:
http://kkvb-cfwn.blogspot.com/
'Utopia Matters: An Interview with curator Vivien Greene'
http://www.db-artmag.com/en/58/feature/utopia-matters-an-interview-with-curator-vivien-greene/
Urbaninform: Squat City International Biennale Rotterdam 2009:
http://www.urbaninform.net/
Debra Solomon:
http://culiblog.org
http://culiblog.org/2009/06/speaking-of-the-future-how-bout-the-market/
http://culiblog.org/2009/06/rethinking-the-market-of-the-future/
http://www.luckymifortunecooking.org/
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UK:
Building Centre:
http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/home.asp
London Yields: Urban Agriculture, 2009:
http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=432
Somewhere:
http://somewhere.org.uk/
Transition Towns, main page:
http://www.transitiontowns.org/
Transition Towns on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns
Transition Towns WIKI:
http://www.transitiontowns.org/
Transition Town Totnes in the UK (this is where movement started):
http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/
Wysing Arts Centre:
http://www.wysingartscentre.org/
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USA:
Alice Waters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters
Edible schoolyard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_schoolyard
Bonnie Ora Sherk, including Crossroads Community (The Farm):
http://www.alivinglibrary.org/
Cynthia Hooper: http://cynthiahooper.com/ (another collaborator with Simparch)
Curry Stone Desing Prize:
http://currystonedesignprize.com/
Design 99, Detroit:
http://www.visitdesign99.com/
Future Farmers Network:
http://farmersforthefuture.ning.com/
http://www.futurefarmers.com.au/default.asp
Amy Franchesini:
'Victory Gardens 2007+'
Nance Klehm's work, notably Human Pile:
http://spontaneousvegetation.net/projects/ (she's a frequent collaborator with Simparch)
Radical Midwest Culture Corridor:
http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/
Rooftop Farms:
http://rooftopfarms.org/
Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn Overlooking Manhattan Skyscrapers:
http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/05/eagle-street-rooftop-farm-in-greenpoint-brooklyn-nyc-volunteering.html
Simparch:
http://simparch.org/
The Dirty Water Initiative and Hydromancy
Sustainable South Bronx:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_South_Bronx
Urban Guerilla Cooking:
http://ugcooking.blogspot.com/
Urban Harvest:
http://www.urbanharvest.org/
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html
