Rethinking the Good Life in Cities
Tags: bill rees, Climate Change, ecocities, economic growth, Gaining Ground, Integrated Resource Management, peak oil, resilience, sustainable cities
City in a Bubble by Flickr user polishq
Nicole Boyer facilitated a panel of speakers yesterday at Gaining Ground. Bill Rees, Vanessa Timmer, and Vincent Tan spoke about why we need to rethink cities and what cities of the future could look like.
To set up the context of why we need to rethink cities, Bill Rees showed how cities tax our ecosystems. Rees blamed Cartesian Dualism for creating the idea of “the environment,” something that is artificially separated from people and has infinite energy, resources, and capacity for waste. He also questioned the idea that economic growth is necessary, showing that growth is only a new phenomenon when considering the whole … Continue Reading
