Green Community Network

The Green Community Network could be developed into “a web-based resource exchange, publishing and outreach program promoting sustainable development and new community models focusing...” This would developing an effective process of collection, organization, analysis and presentation of relevant knowledge to promote sustainable development based on the Arcology model of development envisioned for Califia, expanding opportunities and realizing those aspirations through the cultivation of rapid and sustained economic growth among cultural creatives.

Paradox Conferences

The Paradox Conferences have brought together leading edge thinkers around Paolo Soleri’s experimental project and his Paradox writings, focusing on the benefits as well as the potential dangers of technology. The Green Century Institute (GCI) sees the conferences as a way to communicate ecoliving and sustainable development as part of an evolution of ideas and designs first proposed by Paolo Soleri.

The Califia Ecocity Project, could be designed to showcase and test innovative sustainable development designs and technologies, and new community models.

Promoting Sustainable Cultural Development

A major theme of the knowledge base development could include the fair and equitable exchange of knowledge between cultures. Potential applications of a global knowledge base development initiative like the GCN could involve a process to better quantify the importance of culture in our lives and the fact that what economics now see as intangibles have an important far reaching economic impact in relation to the quality of the human experience. Therefore, a major goal in conjunction with what is traditionally referred to as sustainable development will involve the collection of indigenous cultural knowledge with a focus on preservation and cultural redevelopment in these regions. However, the second component involves affluent regions of the world that are now culturally marginalized.

The Rise of EcoTourism and the Experience Economy

The experience economy is based on the realization that we crave cultural experiences because so many of the world's affluent people live in environments that leave culturally and spiritually deprived. Twenty percent of the world's most affluent people now spend half their money seeking out cultural experiences and an increasing proportion of these people are calling themselves cultural creatives, people who want to buy indigenous goods and cultural products and travel to remote parts of the world to experience indigenous culture.

A Coordinated Strategy to Use ICT to Reinvent & Redevelop Local Culture

There is a need for a globally linked knowledge base to bring together various groups as well as the necessary relevant information to facilitate this process of creating a sustainable global economy that is highly coordinated and synchronized with the redevelopment of local culture among both consuming and non-consuming nations.

Digital Development Dynamics and Holistic ICT

Digital Development Dynamics addresses the factors that further or inhibit the use of technology to maximize human capacity and sustainability:

1. Policy and regulation issues

2. Infrastructure and access issues

3. Content and content providers

4. Training and human capacity building

five. Enterprise and commerce creation

6. Media and outreach development

Good blog with information on patterns of green consumerism: http://www.eggusa.net/blog/

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