Edenicity: abundantly sustainable cities: Recent Episodes
Kev Polk
Edenicity (noun) 1. An eden-like city. 2. A measure of sustainability and economic abundance. How can we design cities to be modern day Edens? Join Kev Polk every Thursday to meet the ideas and people behind cities that heal rather than harm the environment. Can we end mass extinctions through massive abundance? Find out in Edenicity!
An end of season round up of corrections, omissions and breaking news about Edenicity.
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How will Edenicity actually get built?
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Take the quiz and discover how abundant and sustainable your life really is (or isn’t!).
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In this episode I’ll discuss the big dystopian fear that has haunted sustainability for decades, and why Edenicity is designed to win you far more privacy than you have now.
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How to transform our relationship with domestic animals so we can feed everyone in the world and end the mass extinction.
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How to massively expand manufacturing while saving the Earth. If you thought Tesla's Gigafactory was big, wait till you hear this!
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A complete tour of recycling in a city built to end the mass extinction... with a special destination at the end!
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How ecologically sound city design can end pollution and clean up the environmental wreckage of the past.
Plus, how to go "poo-less," and how to maybe use diamond batteries (a.k.a. betavoltaics) to clean up nuclear waste.
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Should a city support or limit inequality? Answer: Both! Here’s why...
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How cities can accommodate immigration so the world can become twice as rich, without the seemingly obvious downsides.
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Why we’ll have enough solar power for everyone in the world within this decade.
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Why small and slow solutions to environmental problems are doomed to failure and what to do instead.
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For anyone who has wondered where the adults are in the modern world, this episode examines how city design can help people grow up.
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Trying to live closer to nature is a mistake. Here’s how to fix that.
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Why fleeing the city to escape disease and crime is a huge mistake.
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How city design can end racism while healing the planet.
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How to design a city that is secure, honest and equitable.
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How a universal basic income would make cities economically stronger and ecologically more sustainable. Caution: the first two minutes of this program may challenge what you thought you knew about money!
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What happened when I bought a home at the peak of the housing bubble, and sold three years later in the depths of the housing crash? This episode tells my story, and how it provided the first clue that sustainable living is ready for its own "Apple Computer" moment.
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Greener Village Blueprint
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A step-by-step guide to making a neighborhood happier and healthier for its residents and the planet. With worked examples and free downloadable checklist.
Checklist: https://edenictiy.com/GreenerVillageBlueprint.pdf
Sources
- Alexander, Christopher et al., A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Oxford University Press, 1977
- Alexander, Christopher, A Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, 1979
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In this episode, you'll get to rate the edenicity of your childhood. Then we’ll explore how much more is possible in ecologically well-designed cities.
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How to create wealthier cities by sharing more.
Resources
- Edenicity Reference Design
- Rose, Carol M. (1986). "The Comedy of the Commons: Commerce, Custom, and Inherently Public Property". Faculty Scholarship Series, Yale Law School. Paper 1828. Originally published by Chicago Law Review, 53:3.
- Anu Partanen, What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence., The Atlantic, December 29, 2011. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
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In which I call out what is wrong or missing in Permaculture and suggest changes so we can build something that actually can end the mass extinction, reverse climate change and provide abundantly for humanity.
Resources
- Permaculture in One Page
- Edenicity Reference Design
- Curtis Stone, What Permaculture Got Wrong, Medium, June 15, 2018
- Lillklobb Permaculture, A Response To Curtis Stone’s What Permaculture Got Wrong, June 30, 2018
- Mollison Lazy Gardener Video
- Holzer, Sepp, Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening (Chelsea Green, 2004)
- Mollison, Bill, Permaculture: A Designer's Manual (Tagari Press, 1988)
- Hemenway, Toby, The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience (Chelsea Green, 2015)
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In which I take you on a brief tour of permaculture so you can better understand the context of Edenicity without taking an 80-hour course. And if you are permaculture certified, it’s a great quick review of the major concepts.
Resources
- Edenicity Reference Design
- Permaculture in One Page
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If politics seems a painful topic right now, it's because the whole edifice is crumbling under the weight of new realities and perceptions. In Episode 18, I'll take you on a tour of how governance is changing, how ecology informs the latest thinking about organizational structure, and end with some hints about what this might mean for city design.
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In which I use a global biomass census and Predator vs. ET simulations (among other things!) to explore what it takes to sustain large, vibrant cities without killing the world.
Resources:
- Edenicity Reference Design.
- Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo, The biomass distribution on Earth, PNAS June 19, 2018 115 (25) 6506-6511; first published May 21, 2018.
- Kayler, Z.; Janowiak, M.; Swanston, C. 2017. Global Carbon. (June, 2017). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Climate Change Resource Center.
- UNEP GEAS, One Planet, How Many People? A Review of Earth’s Carrying Capacity, June, 2012.
- Worldometer: World Population by Year, 2020.
- Randy Olson, Percentage of Bachelor’s degrees conferred to women, by major (1970-2012), June 14, 2014.
- Juan Forero, Brazil's Falling Birth Rate: A 'New Way Of Thinking', NPR, January 15, 2012.
- Neil Howe, Nations Labor To Raise Their Birthrates, Forbes, Mar 29, 2019
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Edenicity vs. pandemics, earthquakes, locust plagues and more. It's like 17 disaster movies rolled into one. But in this case (spoiler alert!) the hero is the city.
Resources
- Edenicity Reference Design
- Uri Friedman, New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet, The Atlantic, April 19, 2020
- Garrett M. Graff, Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next. politico.com, 05/07/2020
- https://www.sundirected.com/can-solar-flares-cme-emp-damge-your-off-grid-solar-power-system/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_locust
- Joe Palca, Maybe The Way To Control Locusts Is By Growing Crops They Don't Like, kunc.org, Aug 19, 2019
- Jen Stout, Plague or plenty? Why the locust is also a prawn of the sky, http://www.bugsfeed.com/locust, March 17, 2016
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How nature and successful civilizations build soil, and how Edenicity will use these models to create a permanently wealthy civilization. If Episode 14 was like Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, today's episode is like The Return of the Jedi.
For this episode, it'll really help to have the Edenicity Reference Design.
John D. Liu videos: Hope in a Changing Climate, Green is Gold
Ecosystem Restoration Camps
Allan Savory TEDx Talk
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Why civilization after civilization squandered their soils and fell, why soils are even more imperiled in the modern world, and how Edenicity will learn from these mistakes. If Episode 13 was like Stanley Kubrick's "2001", this episode is like The Empire Strikes Back.
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In which I bury techno-escapist fantasies such as The Singularity and identify the highest technology we will ever use to build a permanently abundant civilization.
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How to design a transportation system 20x more functional, sustainable and affordable than anything the world has ever known – and get all the solar energy and building blocks a city needs as a free bonus.
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How a human-scale food system can feed 10 billion people on 97% less land than we use now, with higher quality and social justice than the world has ever known.
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What can deserts teach us about the ecology of wealth and designing great cities?
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Why is housing ripe for a Tesla-like disruption? What will that disruption borrow from the tech industry ... and grade school math?!
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Why sustainable cities will generate almost unimaginable wealth over the next 3 decades, in two different ways. And how to tell if a city is part of this green rush --or if it's poised on the brink of ruin.
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Discover what a mind-blowing experiment with drug-addicted rats can teach us about designing better cities. Caution: this episode is hazardous to your existing worldview!
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How you can make an extra million dollars by making sustainable lifestyle choices, and how cities could be better designed to support that.
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Discover the design secrets behind Apple, Tesla Motors and other disruptive companies, and why we should design cities as if they were consumer products. If you're interested in the future of cities or the future of design, you've never heard anything like this, and you won't hear it anywhere else.
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You can add up to 6.4 years to your life expectancy with two lifestyle tweaks that also happen to be the two best things you can do for the planet. But most towns and cities make these lifestyle choices difficult. Discover how, with better design, cities could reduce injuries, illnesses, and the cost of healthcare by 50% to 80%.
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A world tour of car-free cities, sustainable housing and gigantic ecological restoration projects that heal people and landscapes without austerity.
Resources
- Edenicity Reference Design
- John D. Liu, Lessons of the Loess Plateau (52:31)
- https://culdesac.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car-free_movement
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities
- http://www.villagehomesdavis.org/about
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The global mass extinction threatens our existence in a much more immediate way than climate change. In this episode, we’ll explore how our relationship with the environment is causing this problem, and the ecology of solving it. This constrains sustainable city design to an almost unimaginable degree. But it also provides a glimpse of the stunningly high quality of life that edenic cities could offer.
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Edenicity (noun) 1. An eden-like city. 2. Economic + ecological abundance.
The story of a new word, a new hope, a new approach to sustainability, now that environmentalism has failed.
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Sources
- Greta Thunberg, Wikipedia, 2020
- Eric Holthaus, Our planet just set a scary new carbon dioxide record, National Observer, March 7th 2019
- Human Population Growth and Extinction, Biological Diversity, accessed September, 2020.
- Kevin Polk, Gaiome: Notes on Ecology, Space Travel and Becoming Cosmic Species (2007)
- Ecological Footprint Calculator
- J. H. Crawford Carfree Cities, Utrecht : International Books (2000)
- Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2013)
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