Masdar City’s Sustainable, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste Vision Impresses at Globe2010

Masdar City Main Street Conceptual Rendering

Certainly among the most adventurous, ambitious and thought provoking ideas at Vancouver’s recent Globe2010 was the video depicting Masland City being built near Dubai in United Arab Emirates. Initiated in 2006, the completely sustainable, carbon-zero project is projected to cost USD$22 billion and take some eight years to build. [...]

The Story of Stuff

Yesterday morning CBC’s Andy Barrie mentioned the site http://storyofstuff.com/ during his morning radio program. His description was that Laurie Anderson does for consumerism what Al Gore did for climate change. Go to the linked site, click play and watch for twenty minutes.

If you need further convincing I’ve pasted below some text from the site’s intro:

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