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08.26.08

Trucking, Fuel Costs, and Local Production… City of the Future, The Environment | (1)
A friend of mine wrote me the following email about the economy from the trucker/trucking point of view. Interesting: While traveling around the country by Jeep, I spent a little time listening to Trucker Radio. The current diesel costs and the impact on the economy were hot topics of discussion. I had a bit of revelation that there are probably 1000s of business models that are only viable due to cheap fuel. The interesting thing about fuel is that the costs compound for every material/ingredient in a consumer good or manufactured food. Some questions that are stuck in my head is... How expensive does fuel have to become before ...
04.30.08

City of the Future: The Naming Effort Continues… City of the Future | (4)
Great name ideas were submitted in the comments and in emails to the last post on naming the City of the Future project. After hours and hours of searching, here is a list of the domains that are now registered: UTOPIANT.COM YOURECO.COM RENEWABLEPLAN.COM BUILDOPEN.COM DREAMGLOBAL.ORG GLOBALHAB.COM HABPLANNER.COM ONEHAB.COM OURHAB.COM IDEASOFHUMANITY.COM IDEASOFHUMANITY.ORG METROTRUST.COM MIAPLAN.COM MIASPHERE.COM REVOLTIZER.COM TERRASAY.COM TERRAVOLVE.COMSome of the words and fragments that I used to compile this list are: total, Wiki, Eco, Your, Our, My, Open, build, invent, plan, go, trust, hab, itate, itize, ator, topia, lab, geo, root, well, planner, Future, City, Habitat, Vision, Tomorrow, Earth, World, Project, Dream, project, plan, next, Creation, Evolution, Sacrosanct, Clean, Bio, sphere, my, mia, Renewable, Village, Global, Vision, ...
04.21.08

Cheap Fuel and a New Economy City of the Future | (2)
A friend of mine, Bradley, wrote me the following email, which I thought that I would share: While traveling around the country by Jeep, I spent a little time listening to Trucker Radio. The current diesel costs and the impact on the economy were hot topics of discussion. I had a bit of revelation that there are probably 1000s of business models that are only viable due to cheap fuel. The interesting thing about fuel is that the costs compound for every material/ingredient in a consumer good or manufactured food. Some questions that are stuck in my head is... How expensive does ...
04.18.08

A Thought City of the Future | (0)
The pioneering spirit upon which we built this country with property and ownership must change. We are emnarking on a grand social experiment to find a better way.
04.11.08

Energy & The Future City of the Future | (1)
Complex problems can usually be stripped back to "core problems," and the "problem simplification" approach holds true with energy. Looking at energy today, there is a complex web of interwoven issues: production, storgae, transmission, consumption, efficiency, conservation, etc. At the core, there are six primary uses uses of energy: 1. Lighting: From the candles of antiquity to the LED of the modern world, energy has carried the human species out of darkness. 2. Climate: From campfires to air conditioners, energy climatizes the world for comfortable human habitation. 3. Food: From cooking pots to an electric refrigerator, energy is widely consumed for safe food storage ...
03.30.08

City of the Future - A name is needed… City of the Future | (6)
The City of the Future project needs a name and a domain name. Development of the technology is now underway, and has been for some time. The name, however, remains illusive. The goal of the project is to have everyone on the planet who is able to contribute at least one meaningful idea on how we may build a better future. A name that transcends language with a call to action would be perfect, though this is almost an oxymoron. Currently, there are two domains that are not perfect: utopiant.com and youreco.com. Ideas, anyone? ;-)
03.09.08

Taxonomy of a City City of the Future | (5)
The goal of the "City of the Future project" (COTF) is to have thousands of people contribute ideas that lead to the construction of one or more new cities. Good progress has been made on the planning. The initial system needs to start with a taxonomy for ideas to be contributed, and here is what is being considered: Urban Planning, Housing, Transportation Food, Nutrition, Health Education, Learning, Growth Economics, Business, Operations Recreation, Entertainment Law, Order, Enforcement The proposed taxonomy ...
02.25.08

City of The Future Planning Software City of the Future | (1)
There is a working prototype of the software for planning the City of the Future (COTF) written in Ruby on Rails. However, given the fact the design goal is a repository of information for concepts surround the planning and construction of any COTF by any government or organization, there may be massive benefits to use software already designed for a similar task, such as Wikia, which has many localizations. I am hoping to install and start testing Wikia on www.youreco.com as soon as today. The goal is to port all of the blog content from YourEco to this site ...
02.24.08

Ownership, Collective Ownership, and the Pitfalls of Our Time City of the Future | (2)
The modern concept of ownership is invented by humanity, but it does not seem to be serving the collective good. The unalienable rights of ownership and the lack of restrictions present deep challenges to the future. Here are three simple examples that we face every day: - A rural land owner likes to wear white clothing and uses an excessive amount of bleach, which pollutes the ground water used by his neighbors. - An urban land owner decides to take a central downtown plot and use it for a chemical factory, increasing downtown traffic significantly and pouring out excessive amounts of smoke ...
02.14.08

Populate the City of the Future City of the Future | (2)
Here is an interesting model to populate and/or finance the City of the Future project: The Point TechCrunh Keith Powers passed these links along, and I agree. Thank you! There has also been some discussion about archiving ideas and knowledge that could be called upon in the development and construction of new cities in the Gulf and China. Using this approach, many cities could be constructed with the underlying ideas differently to match cultural and geographical needs. Interesting.

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