The Port City with No Sea
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all environmental challenges. This month, we highlight the future of Moynaq. In the 1950s, Moynaq, rested against the shores of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. The Aral is an inland sea, and was once catogorized as the fourth largest lake in the world. Since then, the Aral Sea has been shrinking and shrinking. This disappearing water has mostly been used to irrigate t
"There are no roads in Bohemia"
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow surmounted all environmental challenges to become super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future of Prague. In the 19th century, the struggling artists of Europe’s biggest cities often grouped together in low-rent neighborhoods to live a lifestyle described as 'Bohemian'; a title derived from the commonly supposed domicile of gypsies (i.e.: the province of Bohemia).
Bastia 2121: Declaring War FOR Ecology
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all the grave environmental challenges our age and grown to become super-Green and super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future of Bastia. Bastia is the major port of the French island of Corsica. In 1972, an Italian company dumped toxic waste off the Corsican coast creating a grotesque red mud around the island and causing dead porpoises to be washed upon
Leuven 2121: Europe's Capital of Cabbage
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all the grave environmental challenges our age and grown to become super-Green and super-ecofriendly. Today, we highlight the future of Leuven, in Belgium. Oliver Cromwell, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela. Why do no photographs exist of these men consuming cabbage? In the ecofriendly age of the 22nd Century, it’ll probably be considered impolite to insult any Green o
Beijing: The Golden City?
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the futures of 100 cities across the globe as though they've somehow overcome all environmental challenges and become super-ecofriendly. This month, we highlight the future of Beijing. The Chinese people have a special fondness for Gold, regarding it as pure, lucky, noble, glorious, and as being more trustworthy and incorruptible than just about anything else in the universe. The Chinese government shares this feeling and it has set about get
Abu Dhabi: A Burgeoning Green Utopia?
Abu Dhabi in a prosperous green eco-future...
