About smart cities, maps, and fruits

By Laura Espiau Guarner|2023-04-28T11:30:03-04:001 May 2023|Cities|

Mapping and collecting data for resilient sustainable cities does not always need to be ‘smart’. As per its Wikipedia definition, a smart city is a “technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data”.

Urban hens’ pilot in Toronto: soon a community approach?

By Laura Espiau Guarner|2023-04-25T03:48:52-04:0017 April 2023|Cities|

A tiny proportion of the near to 3 million residents of Toronto have been keeping hens, in some parts of the city, in the frame of the UrbanHensTO pilot program. Soon it will be decided whether these urban coops become permanent and accessible to the totality of Torontonians.

Eco-construction and other on the hills of Tunis

By Laura Espiau Guarner|2023-04-17T03:56:25-04:0010 April 2023|Economy|

On a hill covered with forests and Mediterranean bush, not far from Tunis (Tunisia), the Agricultural Development Group (GDA for its French acronym) Sidi Amor leads since 2006 a community development project around the valorization of the natural resources of the land: plants, stone, earth, water, and energy. Through multiple training activities, the actions for the conservation of nature by the association would act as a lever for the self growth and development of the members of the GDA - young people, men and women from surrounding urban areas, as well as local residents of the rural site.

Every One Every Day: a large-scale participatory ecosystem for healthy, happy and resilient neighborhoods

By Laura Espiau Guarner|2023-04-03T04:44:43-04:003 April 2023|Economy|

What's the connection between sewing a tear in your pants and taking care of chickens together with your street neighbors? These two activities would be part of what the transition may look like, at the neighborhood level. If the socio-ecological transition refers to the process of profound changes in our production and consumption systems, as well as in social and political institutions and in our ways of life, the act of sewing may seem insignificant.

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