Designing for Harmony

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There is no I in City

The illusion of the individual is one of the driving forces that resist the sustainable and equitable development of our cities. To think you are just you, draws boundaries too close to...

Density… The dirty word

Much like the Great White Flight of post-WWII America, where caucasian middle-class families moved away from the city centres and into the culturally baron wastelands of suburbia, a post-Covid Australia is predicting...

The Greatest race of Our Lives

The greatest race of our lives is underway and will be decided this decade, and the winners will shape the future of the planetThe race is between the old grinding gears of...

Sustainable Economy in a Finite World: Our Definition of Growth

The world's addiction to economic growth has pushed our social, environmental and governance structures to new levels of stress never seen before at this scale. So where is the release valve? how...

Are depth and scale mutually exclusive in a sustainable world?

Are depth and scale mutually exclusive in a sustainable world? While in the design phase of two housing development projects, I was faced with what at first could be considered polar opposites...

First SDG Actionables

This is a continuation from last weeks post and work done identifying opportunities for our concreting sub-contracting company, Tradesmate Pty Ltd, to deliver on its responsibilities as a business towards the United...

First SDG Audit on my Construction Company

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) are a framework for us to work towards a more sustainable and equitable world. As an exercise to give more depth to my understanding of...

What difference can one person make?

I'm dedicating the full year of 2020 to contribute towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), to answer the question… What difference can one person make? I'll be using open source...