Do we simply have to stop having sex to produce Clean Urbanism – i.e. an urbanism that is dedicated to minimizing both the required inputs of energy, water, and food for a city as well as its waste output of heat, air pollution as CO2, methan, and water pollution, Samo Pedersen asks in his piece Sci-fi greenery..or just Responsibility?. In fact Randall Teal sees the growing world population frequently ignored in discussions on sustainability, as he points out in his article Coming Clean: Owning Up to the Real Demands of a Sustainable Existence. Fewer people spend less energy, and as the gas and oil supply will come to an end sooner or later, saving energy may be a cheaper and smarter solution for cities than depending on renewable energies, as Gerd Hauser, one of the leading researcers on the implementation of the EU Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings, explains in an interview with us, entitled Domes over Manhatten. Although sustainability has recently become a cache misère for our lack of intent, a trendy make-up hiding our incompetence, with Clean Urbanism being its apotheosis as Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia (WAI) maintain in their contribution Rendering the Clean, energy self-sufficient cities are technically possible as Gerd Hauser states and explains using a five-point manifesto. Greg Keeffe and Simon Swietochowski support that view by introducing their Bio-Port project, a vision of a Free Energy City set in Liverpool, where the old dockyards have been transformed into bio-productive algae farms. Furthermore, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) illustrates in its project Zeekracht The North Sea Masterplan how wind farms could be clustered along an Energy Super-Ring in the North Sea, distributing national surpluses and supplying regional energy needs efficiently and profitably. On the other hand, Clean Urbanism cannot only be understood from a purely technocratic perspective, but also needs a social one as Claudio Astudillo Barra articulates in his article Regenerative Ecologies A Prototypical Approach to the Territory, introducing Felix Guattaris ideas of ecosophy. On such social aspects Rogier van den Berg focuses in his piece on The Cooperative City, where a community is created that triggers individual initiative and the cooperation of its users to generate collective values. The Cooperative City requires a flexible plan with an open end that is only guided by one set of rules, described by Bryan Norwood and the Jackson Community Center as Mania: An Emergent Sustainability of Density and Intensity, created by the disorganized, hyperactivity of an actualized system with no specified, singular goal, a bottom-up phenomenon that emerges from the individual events of architecture within the city, combined with the ideology of urbanism conceived as anti-capitalism and anti-homogenization. It is mania, and mania is clean.

Bernd Upmeyer, Editor-in-Chief, August 2009

Contents MONU #11:

Sci-fi Greenery …or just Responsibility? By Samo Pedersen
Clean Cities – Dirty People By Matteo Muggianu
Dirty Consumerism By Nikonus Pappas
Coming Clean By Randall Teal
Domes over Manhattan – Interview with Gerd Hauser By Bernd Upmeyer
Rendering the Clean By Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia (WAI)
The Mobile Library Unit By John Southern
Where the Grass Is Greener By TomorrowsThoughtsToday
Clean around the Edges By Lee Altman
Bio – Port By Greg Keeffe and Simon Swietochowski
Zeekracht – The North Sea Masterplan By OMA
Scarcity: Bipolar Urbanism in the Sonoran Desert By Felipe Correa
Regenerative Ecologies By Claudio Astudillo Barra
Clean Energy is Dirty Business By Aleksander Tokarz
Dystopic Verdure By Jacob Ross Boswell
How to Win Poetic Praise and Influence Architects By Amanda Webb
The Cooperative City By Rogier van den Berg
Mania By Bryan Norwood and the Jackson Community Design Center

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3/16/10 KCRA (Sacramento) Segment On Green California Expo and AB 32 Debate.

Schwarzenegger quote: ” I think the people are outraged about the fact that texas oil companies are trying to change laws and policies in california. it is outrageous. This is why I think all of us — environmentalists, and ordinary citizens — we are all out here defending AB 32.”

MORE INFO: The Texas-based oil company Valero Energy Corp. is funding a deceptive initiative for the November 2010 ballot designed to kill Californias leading clean energy and air pollution control standards. The company claims its measure simply suspends AB 32, but in fact their initiative would halt the implementation of clean energy and pollution standards until Californias unemployment level drops below 5.5 percent for an entire year a market condition that has occurred just three times in the last 30 years!

Valero wants us to return to the dirty energy economy that pollutes our environment, jeopardizes our health and puts us at a global competitive disadvantage in the trillion dollar field of clean energy.

Valero was named one of the worst polluters in the U.S. (Source: The Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, http://www.peri.umass.edu/Toxic-100-T… The company was hit with $711 million in fines by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2005.

For the latest news and developments, visit us at http://www.NoOnValero.com.

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ITM Power designs and manufactures hydrogen energy systems for energy storage and clean fuel production.

ITM Power is positioning itself for the big win: to be a world leading supplier of infrastructure products for the production of green hydrogen transport fuel

The key limitation of renewable energy is unpredictable power delivery, but using hydrogen to store this energy could be the solution

Decarbonising energy requires a whole systems approach which joins the dots between fuel, power and heat

www.itm-power.com

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Some people say transitioning to clean energy will simply cost too much – “leave it to future generations.” In Edinburgh, Scotland, Richard Alley explains that if we start soon the cost of the transformation could be similar to that which was paid for something none of us would want to do without – clean water and the modern sanitation system.

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