February 2012
9 posts
'Global Ranking of Top 10 Resilient Cities' →
Resilient cities, those that are working to transition towards a low-carbon economy while also preparing to avert the worst of climate change, are gaining interest and attention from policy makers, city councils and others worldwide. In fact, today, leaders from the public and private sector, supported by ICLEI (see below) and the U.S. Green Building Council, are launching a National Leadership...
“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable to go on living”
– A Dangerous method
“Pleasure is never simple. It is, of course it is, until we decide to complicate...”
– A Dangerous method
January 2012
18 posts
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act...”
– Peter Drucker
Principles exist so that you can see beyond...
“As we peer into society’s future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss of their political and spiritual heritage.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“survival is overrated, and i find myself reminded that an unshared life is not...”
– white collar
Buddha's Four Noble Truths
“Everyone suffers”
“We create much of our own suffering”
“We have a choice not to contribute to our suffering”
“There are ways we can go about changing how we think, perceive and feel”
In 'That used to be US' - Thomas Friedman and...
…That is the bet that China has made in its twelfth 5 year plan, authorized in March 2011, which stresses that development of renewable energy will be the key to China’s energy security for the next decade…Moreover, renewable energy depends on new technology…”Chinese solar panel manufacturers accounted for slightly over half the world’s production last year..In...
“It is human nature to remember and latch on to things that confirm your world...”
– Joseph Romm
“I want to be free. I’m not asking for superficial freedom, the freedom to...”
– Irène Némirovsky, Suite Francaise (via hateshiploveship)
better free than ignorant
“Growing companies kill internal jobs by economic darwinism.”
– John Jazwiec
“We still think too narrowly and too closely about ourselves as individuals and...”
– (via blinksoflife)
damn.
“nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable”
– Shakespeare
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via happycollision)
best New Year advice ever
December 2011
33 posts
“How did a nation that, aside from its mussels and chips, renowned chocolate and...”
– Belgium, a small, unremarkable country, brews world-reknowned beer. The country also makes a bigger range than any other—1,131 at the last count. Its hybrid history and culture are part of the reason why. (via theeconomist)
and it dominates well!
“Les mures de terre, a l’image des arbres, meurent debout.”
– Madalena Galamba in Unica
The walls of earth, similarly to the trees, will die standing.
“The tiniest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions”
– The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
always, as you are what you do
“Life’s an occasion. Rise to it.”
– Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (via ingwaybee)
always
“how do i say this with out sounding like a dick? - I get upset when I see things...”
– Colin Beavan
sometimes i get the feeling that people do things...
“When you can, let me know how long you’re willing to miss me for.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Stillness Of Patience (via kari-shma)
i’m dying to know
“Yet, I didn’t understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via troubled)
That's what is so interesting about being human...
Why should we not feel immensely?
Capitalism vs. Climate →
Freedom, climate, capitalism, socialism, lobbies, oil, renewable energy, future generations
What to do.
“We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artists job is not...”
– Midnight in Paris
