http://global-culture.org/world-without-oil/ Sustainable, Memorable, Livable Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:40:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://global-culture.org/world-without-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-99106 urban design conference Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:53:00 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2007/05/01/world-without-oil/#comment-99106 [...] This past week the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored the follow up: Re-imagining Cities, Urban Design After the Age of Oil. Maybe the sudden drop in the price of oil over the last few days dissipated the sense of urgency that the organizers of the conference had hoped for, but as Lloyd Alter reports the conference was a sequel to the various debates about climate change that have taken place in other forums over the last few years. Very little was done to propose solutions. It would seem that the average citizen was far more inventive when thinking about the proposed scenario as judged by the success of the game “World Without Oil“. [...] [...] This past week the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored the follow up: Re-imagining Cities, Urban Design After the Age of Oil. Maybe the sudden drop in the price of oil over the last few days dissipated the sense of urgency that the organizers of the conference had hoped for, but as Lloyd Alter reports the conference was a sequel to the various debates about climate change that have taken place in other forums over the last few years. Very little was done to propose solutions. It would seem that the average citizen was far more inventive when thinking about the proposed scenario as judged by the success of the game “World Without Oil“. [...]

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