oryginal from: Alex Steffen / Worldwatch

By the end of this decade, there will be nearly 3.5 billion city-dwellers.

The annual State of the World report, prepared by our allies at Worldwatch, has long been one of the most critical resources for understanding the problems facing our planet and their possible solutions. This year’s report, though, Our Urban Future, is even more prescient and vital than usual.

That’s because Our Urban Future tackles the challenge of building sustainable cities, and cities (as we’ve long remarked here) are the best levers we have for creating rapid transformation to a bright green future (which is why we devoted one of the seven chapters of Worldchanging to cities and the best tools, models and ideas for changing them).