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Sustainability, collaboration and creativity are at the basis of the changes currently being experienced by our society. Since 2008, Defiant Imagination has been looking at how these concepts are being applied to different areas of our daily life: urbanism, food, the economy, social media, and more.
Its author, Flavie Halais, is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist.-
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Danish eco-paradise
Ok, I’m late to talk about this one, especially since the new issue of the New Yorker came out and caused all this controversy, but I bought the previous issue yesterday because of this article about a Danish island that tries to achieve sustainability and reduce its carbon emissions. Residents on Samsø island tried everything (almost): biomass, wind power, cars running on vegetable oil… Some of it didn’t work, but it was worth the try: they’re now producing more energy through renewable sources than they need.
The article points out to something that I really liked, which is the fact that reducing our energy comsumption and our greenhouse gas emissions is really not that hard, and it certainly doesn’t ask for any drastic change in our lives (at least if you’re living in a city and can rely on public transportation and nearby stores, but I guess that’s another debate.)