Status Updates From Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for...

This is not a book designed to be read like a novel. This is more a book to be reviewed regularly, enjoyed, and thought about.

"Hope and desire, mixed with a rich social imagination, can work together as potent antidotes to the complacency of accepting the status quo."

"All of the buildings are veneered with a skin laden with algae that not only capture solar energy but also feed on carbon dioxide and fix it into the building walls..." Vienna, 2121, Agents of the Green Economy

"hotels transformed into public schools" — Varna 2121 * Chronicle of the Sea Garden -- I know a good idea when I see one!

Toronto 2121: Eco-taxes, Eco-budgets — participatory budgeting, eco-drones!

"every individual in business...attends annual environmenal education classes before being granted a license to work"

"good food is more important than excessive mobility"

Piezoelectric tubeways!

"All they can do is survive within, then beautify and savor, their own small part of the world." — San Francisco 2121, The City of Growhemia

Precautionary Principle: if there is any risk to human or environmental health from a new machine system...then err on the side of caution...

"...an evolving ecotopian city will offer citizens a chance to pursue other forms of freedom beyond the superficial freedom of mobility that a car offers. A utopian city....acts to encourage each and every person to learn to adapt to the new or the evolving utopian form. Citizens can thus teach themselves...to be happy—even happier—without cars." — Ecotopia 2121, Oxford 2121, Tranquil Streets of a Retro-future City

Inventive. Creative. Inspiring. Beautiful.

"It was not technology that changed the world but enthusiastic storytelling!" New York 2121, Revolutionary New Learning