Download We all make judgments. We are always comparing, ranking, and creating league tables. And we do so according to…
April 8th, 2012
The “1-15” Sustainability Report Card
March 20th, 2012
On governance for re-engineering city infrastructure
On governance for re-engineering city infrastructure. Beck M. B., Thompson M., Ney S., Gyawali D. and Jeffrey P. Published in…
If the 1 notion of Sustainability had a physical manifestation and one could walk around it — if it were…
A Review of ‘Screw Business As Usual’ by Richard Branson (Portfolio/Penguin, New York, 2011) This book came to our…
I once vainly believed I could capture the essence of Sustainability in just a few pages of text, if not…
December 7th, 2011
Professional Engineers: Poking a Stick in their Cage
Michael Thompson has just published a Comment (access the article by clicking here) on my recently published Sustainability Concepts Paper. He suggests…
Press Release Cities as Forces for Good in the Environment: Sustainability in the Water Sector │ │ Begun as the…
June 16th, 2011
Urban Material Stock: Garbage or Valued Antique?
Nutrient Flows: Costly Pollutants or Valued Resources? In this CFG Insight, Michael Thompson writes of how the way we value…
A Review of ‘Triumph of the City’ by Edward Glaeser Penguin (February, 2011) Contributed by M. B. Beck “How…
April 27th, 2011
Community-based adaptation in action
Nepal has become one of the first countries to consider a bottom-up approach for scaling up community-based adaptation (CBA) to…