Edenicity (noun) 1. An eden-like city. 2. Economic + ecological abundance.

The story of a new word, a new hope, a new approach to sustainability, now that environmentalism has failed.

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Sources

• Greta Thunberg, Wikipedia, 2020
• Eric Holthaus, Our planet just set a scary new carbon dioxide record, National Observer, March 7th 2019
• Human Population Growth and Extinction, Biological Diversity, accessed September, 2020.
• Kevin Polk, Gaiome: Notes on Ecology, Space Travel and Becoming Cosmic Species (2007)
• Ecological Footprint Calculator
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• Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2013)

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The global mass extinction threatens our existence in a much more immediate way than climate change. In this episode, we’ll explore how our relationship with the environment is causing this problem, and the ecology of solving it. This constrains sustainable city design to an almost unimaginable degree. But it also provides a glimpse of the stunningly high quality of life that edenic cities could offer.

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A world tour of car-free cities, sustainable housing and gigantic ecological restoration projects that heal people and landscapes without austerity.

Resources

• Edenicity Reference Design
• John D. Liu, Lessons of the Loess Plateau (52:31)
• https://culdesac.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car-free_movement
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities
• http://www.villagehomesdavis.org/about

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