

A Super-Green Future for an Island Capital
THE ECOTOPIA 2121 PROJECT PREDICTS THE FUTURES OF 100 SUPER ECO-FRIENDLY CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE FOR 100 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE. THIS WEEK, WE FOCUS ON THE MALDIVIAN CAPITAL. Islands are generally thought of as extremely vulnerable to future climate change tragedy. Here, using Thomas More's novel about the island Utopia as a starting point, the Ecotopia 2121 project forecasts a super-ecofriendly 'Green Utopian' future for the island capitals across the globe, from Singapore t


Madrid 2121-- Forward to Future Sustainability?
The Ecotopia 2121 Project details the future 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 Madrid. Like many capital cities, Madrid is an administrative hub, a business hub, an industrial hub, and a cultural hub of a whole nation. This profundity of ‘hubness’ attracts a great continuous flow of people and money into t


China's "Super-Eco" Megacity
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 own age and grown to become super-Green and super-sustainable. Today, we highlight the future of Shanghai. For many decades, China’s central government attempted to control the population of its cities through a one-child policy. The city authorities believed that urban overpopulation presented them with large-scale problem