TEDxPhylly speech, Architecture critic Inga Saffron challenges cities to shift focus and look beyond skyscraper fantasies in her TEDxPhilly talk - "Moving from The Grand Vision to The Grand

TEDxPhylly speech, Architecture critic Inga Saffron challenges cities to shift focus and look beyond skyscraper fantasies in her TEDxPhilly talk - "Moving from The Grand Vision to The Grand Adjustment." Cities should instead work to improve and build amenities that make urban areas better places to live for existing dwellers. Public spaces should be a priority: upgrade transit systems, add bike lanes to all major roadways, increase walkability, create and maintain great parks and public plazas. Saffron believes that skyscrapers are not the only way to achieve the worthy goal of density and sustainability. To explain, she points to the success of mid-rise buildings in Philadelphia and posits that different cities need a range of densities. American cities must be flexible and make adjustments - an idea jokingly demonstrated in Saffron's opening skyscraper yoga poses. Uploaded on Jan 29, 2012

Fairy Tale format meets sustainability

Water by 7 Billion Others

Goal 7: Development

Goal 7: Development Matters:  Ensure environmental sustainability: Water

884 million people worldwide still do not have access to clean drinking water - that is almost one out of every seven people. 2 million of them die every year.

To continue the "7 billion Others" project, new films about the Millennium Development Goals were realized in 16 countries.

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What does He Plant Who Plants a Tree read by Jeremy Irons

Thanks to Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack for lending their

Thanks to Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack for lending their voices to this cause. Jeremy Irons reading at Avondale Forest Walk against the sale of Irish public Forests. Sun 28 April 2013. Shaky video by Cathy Fitzgerald, Green Party Forest policy spokesperson (the Green Party has a comprehensive Forest Policy, published in 2012. Its key recommendation that we move toward continuous cover permanent, non clearfell forestry. Published on Apr 28, 2013

 

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EarthSayers Cathy Fitzgerald; Jeremy Irons
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