Carolina Farm Trust – building resilient communities
Alex Alcorn is currently the Director of Marketing and Communications at Carolina Farm Trust, a Charlotte-based non-profit serving North and South Carolina. Alex is a community organizer and public health professional with expertise in organizational strategy, community engagement, and public policy. This presentation continues our discussion of how justice, food,…
POCACITO BLM – June 18, 2020
A whole lot is happening every week and while nobody has all the answers, together, we can find ways to respond and to deal with the challenges we all face while pursuing sustainable cities: be it health, equity or racism or all three together. Our three speakers: Jordie Vasquez, architect…
Cradle to Cradle – leaving a big and positive footprint
The C2C school of thought is characterized by a positive conception of man with a positive footprint: as beneficial organisms humans are a part of the environment. Old patterns of thinking are abandoned, while new paths towards intelligent abundance are established. The C2C design concept is based on the fundamental…
Closing the Loop – zero 3
with Jason Morenikeji, Director, Urban Farming Company. The Urban Farming Company uses circular economy thinking to reduce economic and ecological food footprints. Their solution – called Zero3 (www.zero3.io) – explores the value potential of the organic waste flowing through our cities. With the vision of creating a zero waste, zero…
Communities co-create the circular economy
a POCACITO webtalk on March 14, 12pm ET with Øystein Leonardsen from Copenhagen In recent years, South Harbour (a disadvantaged neighborhood in Copenhagen) has been undergoing a tremendous physical development. Politicians, researchers and urban planners have in this regard infused South Harbour with new interesting initiatives working towards more integrated…
Reducing Short Lived Climate Pollutants
A POCACITO webinar with Alan Silayan from Clean Air Asia (CAA) The latest publications by the IPCC and UNEnvironment paint a dire apocalyptic picture of the impacts of not meeting the challenges of the Paris agreement. Reducing short-lived climate pollutants in the near term gives us an opportunity to meet…