Warren Karlenzig - Collective Intelligence: Cities as Global Sustainability Platform - TEDxMission

Social media and collaborative technologies--layered with smart systems combining geo-location data with human experience--will make cities the driving sustainability force in a dawning planetary era. Cities will anticipate new risks with rapid urban systems innovation based upon crowdsourcing, virtual and physical communities, and transparent markets sensitive to full carbon and resource costs. Creatively leveraging collective intelligence for clean energy, low carbon mobility and sustainable food and water, the new urban grid will enable high local quality of life, lifelong learning and vibrant green economies.

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[greenbeanery2]

because that's how cities are. concentrations of things, including money. utter dependence on the urban metabolic grid. nothing new, is it?

[ibsdboi]

very interesting video!

[CreativeMessage]

[The Chinese] people are discovering that society's resources and opportunities are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few.

zerohedge . com/news/struggle-ant-tribe-ch­inas-broken-dreams

[CreativeMessage]

"Social media and collaborative technologies--layered with smart systems combining geo-location data with human experience--will make cities the driving sustainability force in a dawning planetary era."

I'd like to know what Mr.Karlenzig thinks of the ghost cities of China

/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E

business . financialpost . com/2012/08/29/what-china-doub­ters-have-wrong-about-its-ghos­t-cities-stephen-roach/

China's rural-to-urban migration averaging 15 to 20 million people per year

[postcarboninstitute]

Great talk, Warren. Very, very well done!

"What's the one thing we can do..." <--- You're dead on!