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ICIE Chapter Three Excerpt
Intentional Cities, Intentional
Economies
Excerpt from Chapter Three
by Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Bernard Lietaer
January 30, 2010
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Community Currency Guide
GCI has worked with a leading expert in the
field, Bernard Lietaer, to develop a local
guide to community currency. This workbook
helps community leaders identify the kinds of
complementary currencies that might be
appropriate for their cities and towns, and
gives them step-by- step advice on how to
introduce them locally.
January 06, 2010
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Background
In September of 2008, Gwen traveled to
China, South Africa, and France. In China,
she worked with the Ottawa School of Public
Service to train Central Party school
professors to use skills and techniques for
increased public participation, social
equity, and sustainable development.
In South Africa, she and the mayor of
Montpelier, Vermont, Mary Hooper, attended a
conference organized by the International
Center for Sustainable Cities in Vancouver,
BC. After the conference, she went to
Johannesburg to witness the graduation of 30
students from our Earn-A-Bike training
program in Diepsloot.
In Paris, Gwen met with Bernard Lietaer, the
co-author of a new book to be published in
the spring of 2011 titled Intentional Cities,
Intentional Economies, and visited a district
energy plant being built by a company that is
interested in working with the City of
Montpelier on a similar facility.
January 06, 2010
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Vermont Community Development Association
Click on the link above to go to the page with
the presentations for VCDA.
January 06, 2010
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Invitation
From Copenhagen to Congress our nations have
not taken the action necessary to insure our
survival, and all Earth’s species are in
danger.
We live in an era of unprecedented challenge,
and we need your spirit and your voice to
join in our call for change.
Please click on the Invitation Link above to
download the invitation.
January 02, 2010
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Announcement and Invitation
From Copenhagen to Congress our national
leaders have failed to take the action
necessary to insure our survival, and all
Earth’s species are in danger.
We live in an era of unprecedented challenge,
and we need your spirit and your voice to
join in our call for change.
Please click on the Announcement and
Invitation Link above to download the
invitation.
December 31, 2009
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The Economics of 350: Costs and Benefits of Climate Stabilization
A report to read in preparation for Copenhagen.
October 07, 2009
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Obama's Challenge
This is a short narrative that describes practical strategies cities and towns can undertake to address top priority issues like housing, health care, economic revitalization, and climate change without needing a lot of new money from the federal government.
December 29, 2008
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Community Currency Slide Show
This is a 20 minute narrated slide show for
local government leaders on how they can make
real progress on top priority issues without
needing a lot of money to do it.
December 29, 2008
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China: Images of Spirit
Images from Beijing and Xining that reflect
important spiritual traditions in China.
October 07, 2008
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Bike Project in Diepsloot
These are slides of the graduation that was
held for Earn-A-Bike program participants in
Diepsloot, South Africa.
October 07, 2008
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ICSC Conference in Durban, South Africa
These are slides from the conference on
sustainable cities we attended in Durban,
South Africa.
October 07, 2008
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Workshop in Xining
These are slides about the workshop we
presented to the professors of the Central
Party schools.
October 07, 2008
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Slides from Beijing
Beijing, China
October 07, 2008
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Paris
Spending a few days in Paris with Bernard
Lietaer, the co-author of a new book called
Intentional Cities, Intentional Economies.
October 07, 2008
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World Urban Forum Final Report
Read the Final Report from the World Urban
Forum, which occurred in Vancouver in June of
2006.
January 13, 2007
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The Theory of Change
This is a short slide show I prepared to
illustrate the theory of change, for
activists who are trying to make the world a
better place.
December 21, 2006
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EarthCAT and LASER Training in South Africa
Read some notes and reflections about the
training we are doing from October 18th to
November 8th, 2006 in six provinces around
South Africa.
November 01, 2006
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Walking for a Change
Read a short reflection on the recent walk
from Ripton to Burlington, Vermont to raise
awareness and political action about climate
change. Bill McKibben and John Elder led
the walk, which took five days. In his
invitation, Bill writes:
This is not a partisan effort, nor is
concern about global warming confined
to "environmentalists." This march will
include hunters, fishermen, and farmers;
hikers, bikers and birdwatchers. We are
students and businesspeople, sugarmakers and
ski-lift operators. We are parents and
grandparents, and young people facing
lifetimes on a warming planet. We are people
of faith, and secular people devoted to the
common good. Indeed, we have all been moved
in recent weeks by the efforts of our
retiring independent Senator Jim Jeffords,
who has introduced legislation on global
warming that goes further than any previous
effort to really grapple with this problem.
One of our aims is to make sure that his
principles—an 80 percent reduction in carbon
emissions by 2050, 20 percent renewable
power by 2020, and cars that get at least 40
miles per gallon—prevail on Capitol Hill.
September 09, 2006
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Community Currency Guide
GCI has worked with a leading expert in the
field, Bernard Lietaer, to develop a local
guide to community currency. This workbook
helps community leaders identify the kinds
of complementary currencies that might be
appropriate for their cities and towns, and
gives them step-by-step advice on how to
introduce them locally.
August 23, 2006
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Some Irreverent Notes from the World Urban Forum
GCI had a lot of fun attending the World
Urban Forum in Vancouver this
June. We also had some amusing encounters
with various levels of
officialdom. You can read the stories we
have to tell in the attached
file.
July 14, 2006
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Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal: A Guide to Community Development.
GCI has partnered with Michael Miller of
America's Development Foundation, Hunter
Lovins and
Christopher Juniper of Natural
Capitalism Solutions in Boulder, CO, Bernard
Lietaer, and Wayne Fawbush to
prepare this workbook for communities on
sustainable ways to build real wealth by
strengthening the local economy.
June 19, 2006
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GCI Featured in Yes! Magazine
The Summer, 2006 Edition of Yes! Magazine has
a story about the work we are doing in
Calgary. You can download the attached file
to read it.
May 22, 2006
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20th Anniversary of Chernobyl: April 26, 2006
April 26, 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of
the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine, an event
that changed the world. It was a key reason
that the Soviet Union changed so
dramatically, as the citizens of the eastern
bloc started demanding better access to
environmental information. It also ended
the incessant growth of the nuclear power
industry. We have yet to learn all the
lessons of this disaster, however, and
nuclear power is now being advertised as the
solution to global climate change. It
is not. Read the attached articles for
more information.
April 25, 2006
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South Africa: April, 2006
The Global Community Initiatives Youth
Employment and
Training project in South Africa had a visit
from one of
our major funders - the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund.
April 05, 2006
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Sweden: March, 2006
Gwendolyn was invited to Sweden by Green
Cross
International to speak to local community
leaders about
how to use the Earth Charter for local
planning.
April 05, 2006
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The City of Calgary has embarked on an
inclusive,
long-term planning project called
imagineCalgary - a
sustainable development plan for the next 100
years.
February 07, 2006
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Newburgh, New York
In Newburgh, New York, a community in the
Hudson Valley,
GCI has partnered with the city on a
Sustainable Master
Planning process that will empower local
citizens, NGOs,
youth groups, and others in envisioning and
building a
sustainable future.
February 07, 2006
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Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal (LASER)
GCI has partnered with Michael Miller of
America's Development Foundation, Hunter
Lovins and
Christopher Juniper of Natural
Capitalism Solutions in Boulder, CO, Bernard
Lietaer, and Wayne Fawbush to
prepare this workbook for communities on
sustainable ways to build real wealth by
strengthening the local economy.
February 06, 2006
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Diepsloot Youth Bicycle Project
The Youth Bicycle Project in Diepsloot brings
bicycles, vocational training, and
sustainable development planning to a
community with overwhelming poverty, rampant
violence, and little hope.
February 05, 2006
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South Africa Local Government Association
GCI has been working with the South Africa
Local Government Association to train their
staff and member municipalities to use the
EarthCAT planning process for sustainable
development.
February 04, 2006
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