Edenicity: abundantly sustainable car-free cities Kev Polk

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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Greta Thunberg, Wikipedia, 2020Eric 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 CalculatorJ. H. Crawford Carfree Cities, Utrecht : International Books (2000)Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2013)Support the show

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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A world tour of car-free cities, sustainable housing and gigantic ecological restoration  projects that heal people and landscapes without austerity.

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Edenicity Reference DesignJohn D. Liu, Lessons of the Loess Plateau (52:31)https://culdesac.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_placeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car-free_movementhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_citieshttp://www.villagehomesdavis.org/aboutSupport the show

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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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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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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