Contributed by M. B. Beck At the close of 2011, sustainability and environmental advisor Tony Juniper asked “Will 2012 be…
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September 4th, 2014
Sustainability and smartness: A tale of two slogans
January 2nd, 2014
Symposium on Urban Integration
Contributed by Rich Dawson COST Action TU0902 (Integrated Assessment for Urban Sustainability) is organizing a symposium on Urban Integration 2014…
December 3rd, 2013
Out of My Comfort Zone: Africa, Buildings, Transport … and Crime
Contributed by M. B. Beck For some 35 years the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, has…
March 22nd, 2013
Sustainable Business Summit 2013
Dublin, Ireland, 22-24 April, 2013 In conjunction with the Irish EU Presidency CFGNet will be represented at the Sustainable Business…
October 10th, 2012
Chicago trying to be a cooler city
Watch the full broadcast report by PBS. Chicago is implementing various technologies and management practices to deal with issues such…
April 8th, 2012
The “1-15” Sustainability Report Card
Download We all make judgments. We are always comparing, ranking, and creating league tables. And we do so according to…
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…
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…