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# A World of Words

Ruminations from the spaces between soil and soul

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- [Tom was always along for the ride!](https://svenworld.com/tom-was-always-along-for-the-ride/) - Tom Hlavacek has left the building. Or should I say, the pitch, the field, the court, the gym, the ring, the track, the slope, the green, or any other venue imaginable where people come together to celebrate the miracle of the human mind and body. Yes, he was competitive, but in service of a higher
- [Tom war immer mit von der Partie!](https://svenworld.com/tom-war-immer-mit-von-der-partie/) - Übersetzung des Textes von Sven Eberlein vom 01.07.2025 von Regina Frey. Englisches Original: https://svenworld.com/tom-was-always-along-for-the-ride/ Auf Facebook: Link Tom Hlavacek hat das Gebäude verlassen. Oder sollte ich sagen, das Spielfeld, den Platz, die Turnhalle, den Ring, die Bahn, die Piste, das Grün oder jeden anderen denkbaren Ort, an dem Menschen zusammenkommen, um das Wunder des menschlichen
- [20 Years a US Citizen](https://svenworld.com/20-years-a-us-citizen/) - Twenty years ago this week I became a US citizen. Far from the arduous and often dangerous journeys taken by so many others seeking refuge from all kinds of existential challenges in their countries of origin, mine was a relatively benign process. But from the very beginning, it felt meaningful beyond the passport — more
- [Keeping hope alive in the face of fascism](https://svenworld.com/keeping-hope-alive-in-the-face-of-fascism/) - Today at Civic Center in San Francisco, a small but raucous crowd of citizens calling attention and voicing opposition to the vicious dismantling of our government and international reputation, met with cheers and honks from just married couples and drivers passing by alike. The plan for the hostile government takeover was always to sow chaos,
- [Time to Rise Up](https://svenworld.com/time-to-rise-up/) - San Francisco was absolutely LIT today. Two protests, one at Civic Center and another in front of the Tesla dealership on Van Ness. Perhaps more impressive than the numbers turning out was the amount of solidarity honking by people driving by, including a significant number of folk in work vehicles, truck drivers, cab drivers, construction
- [This year the other Earth Day will be Vote Day](https://svenworld.com/this-year-the-other-earth-day-will-be-vote-day/) - In 2024, the most powerful action we can take to honor Earth Day is to help reelect Joe Biden and give him a Democratic Congress.
- [Why I'm Groovin' on Radical Optimism (Together We're Stronger!)](https://svenworld.com/why-im-groovin-on-radical-optimism-together-were-stronger/) - Today is the official launch for Last Call to Vote (Together We're Stronger), a song my band Beet the System recorded over the last couple of months. The final title ended up being Last Call to Vote, not exactly a rosy proposition. But the subtitle and chorus line Together We're Stronger carries the deeper superpower
- [Emergence](https://svenworld.com/emergence/) - I don't know about you, but the last few years have not felt very magical to me. At least in the more contemporary colloquial sense of the word that conjures enchantment, inspiration, and awe. Sure, there was plenty of trickery performed on our collective mind. First, by the orange master of banality, venality, and grandiosity.
- [Yes, the IPCC report is dire. But it's not too late if we turn despair into action, together.](https://svenworld.com/yes-the-ipcc-report-is-dire-but-its-not-too-late-if-we-turn-despair-into-action-together/) - The IPCC report released today concludes: “Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.” The good news is that it is not too late, and if we collectively wake up and take action now, we can save a
- [Rest in Beauty, Wolfgang Ziegler, Trader of Seeds, Bulbs & Tubers](https://svenworld.com/rest-in-beauty-wolfgang-ziegler-trader-of-seeds-bulbs-tubers/) - My uncle Wolfgang Ziegler passed away this week at age 91. I didn't have a chance to get to know him more intimately until later in his life, but when we did connect it was deeply meaningful, as he brought my longstanding metaphorical quest for planting and spreading seeds back to my native roots. When
- [Desmond Tutu: No Person is an Island](https://svenworld.com/desmond-tutu-no-person-is-an-island/) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu & The Rev. Mpho Tutu In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Davies Symphony Hall, SF I had the great pleasure and privilege of seeing South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter, The Rev. Mpho Tutu, talking about their new book, Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes
- [Germany under water: At long last, we are all in the same boat. And that’s the good news.](https://svenworld.com/germany-under-water-at-long-last-we-are-all-in-the-same-boat-and-thats-the-good-news/) - With historic floods hitting one of the last bastions of perceived immunity against the effects of climate change, people in financially wealthy countries are finally forced to reckon with the global scale of the crisis. As a native German living in California, the first time I got concerned inquiries about my well being from back
- [Feels like we’ve been in the wrong movie. Let’s make a better one together](https://svenworld.com/feels-like-weve-been-in-the-wrong-movie-lets-make-a-better-one-together/) - What the hell was that? I don’t know about you, but the last five and a half years have felt like I’ve been in the wrong movie, a German idiom (“Ich glaub ich bin im falschen Film”) to describe the sensation of being pulled into a reality you didn’t choose but have to navigate through
- [Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom: 4 questions for Sins Invalid artist Maria R. Palacios](https://svenworld.com/birthing-dying-becoming-crip-wisdom-4-questions-for-sins-invalid-artist-maria-r-palacios/) - A few years ago, I wrote a piece for YES! Magazine entitled Speaking for All Bodies (Not Just the “Perfect” Ones) about Sins Invalid, a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities. They are about to follow their acclaimed show “Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the
- [Dismantle the Police State (of Mind)](https://svenworld.com/dismantle-the-police-state-of-mind/) - I was thinking of a message for my sign that would encompass both the immediate need for disarming America's militarized police forces as well as a paradigm shift in which the word "force" would never be ingrained in our collective vernacular to describe an entity tasked with resolving conflict and keeping communities safe. As someone
- [The Planet or The Humans: Michael Moore's false choice a lesson in how not to build a movement](https://svenworld.com/the-planet-or-the-humans-michael-moores-false-choice-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-build-a-movement/) - I meant to write about the Michael Moore produced documentary Planet of the Humans right after watching it last weekend. But over the course of the week all of the wild distortions and misrepresentations in it got debunked quite expertly by dozens of people with much more knowledge on the current state of renewable energy
- [EcoJustice: Coming to Ecuador, with or without Chevron](https://svenworld.com/ecojustice-coming-to-ecuador-with-or-without-chevron/) - Originally posted as part of the EcoJustice series at Daily Kos Note: This piece is a little bit longer than your average blog post, as it covers a fairly long and complex story. However, it reads like an eco-thriller and I think you'll be through it before you can say "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons." If you're
- [Why Cities are the Perfect Green New Deal Labs](https://svenworld.com/why-cities-are-the-perfect-green-new-deal-labs/) - Originally published in The Nature of Cities It was only a year ago when the idea of a Green New Deal entered the American public sphere with a big splash. When a group of young activists, joined by an idealistic new crop of congresswomen, stormed the incoming house speaker’s office to demand nothing less than
- [Hindsight for 2020](https://svenworld.com/hindsight-for-2020/) - As I was combing through the same box that unearthed the prophetic Australia Under Siege map the other day, I came across an essay I wrote exactly two decades ago to commemorate Y2K. 20 years ago seems like the stone age now — there were no smartphones (the iPod was released in 2001), social media,
- [Australia Under Siege, Revisited](https://svenworld.com/australia-under-siege-revisited/) - Going through some old boxes to lighten the load for the new decade, I came across this National Geographic map from July 2000, entitled "Australia Under Siege". Its side bars about human-induced fire suppression, soil erosion, rainforest felling, habitat fragmentation, and overgrazing are like a road map to the current bushfire / climate apocalypse. One
- [Striking for a Livable Planet is Striking for Justice](https://svenworld.com/striking-for-a-livable-planet-is-striking-for-justice/) - As I was assembling the posters I had printed from the 350.org Arts Kit to make signs for tomorrow’s Global Climate Strike, I was reflecting back on a week in which the themes of justice so powerfully laid out in the Green New Deal resolution were all around me. On Monday, when I joined hundreds
- [Turn your orange blues into action: California about to pass important climate bills... with your help!](https://svenworld.com/turn-your-orange-outrage-into-action-california-about-to-pass-important-climate-bills-with-your-help/) - It's so easy these days to get either distracted or depressed by the daily barrage of orange madness raining down on us, ranging in significance from hopelessly vapid to humanly atrocious. Coupled with what seems to be an ever sprawling and accelerating onslaught of social media on our senses, an almost instinctive reaction I witness
- [The Art of the Green New Deal](https://svenworld.com/the-art-of-the-green-new-deal/) - Announcing a next gen journal of creative culture shift to bring about the vision set forth in the Green New Deal resolution.
- [Freiburg, Germany: City of the Future. Part II: How to Build an Eco-Suburb from Scratch](https://svenworld.com/freiburg-germany-city-of-the-future-part-ii-how-to-build-an-eco-suburb-from-scratch/) - Yesterday I posted Freiburg, Germany: City of the Future. Part I: Keeping What Works (a photo diary)-- the first in a two-part series about Freiburg, a model for urban sustainability and innovative city planning located at the edge of the black forest in the south-western corner of Germany. As part of a trip to my
- [Signs of a Climate Emergency](https://svenworld.com/signs-of-a-climate-emergency/) - The Great Highway, one of San Francisco's iconic roads that runs along the city's Pacific coastline, has been closed intermittently for the last several months due to sand intrusion and flooding from the relentless waves of storms visited upon California throughout this winter. Now, when the City says "closed", they mean closed to cars, as
- [State of the Union to be about Green New Deal, according to God](https://svenworld.com/state-of-the-union-to-be-about-green-new-deal-according-to-god/) - With all the talk about God's preferences for political candidates it should come as no surprise that the Almighty would feel compelled to make a statement of the highest divine order. By relegating what promises to be the most hatefully ignorant State of the Union address in the history of the universe to the same
- [Faces of the Resistance: 2 Years, 22 Uprisings](https://svenworld.com/faces-of-the-resistance-2-years-22-uprisings/) - I've always liked going to rallies and protests, because the energy created by direct citizen participation is so raw and genuine. In the age of constant media filtering and digital middlemen for so many of our interactions, being in the midst of chanting, laughing, and singing people makes me feel alive and human. My earliest
- [Young Green New Deal activist: "I shouldn’t have to think about survival, I should be making 10 year plans."](https://svenworld.com/young-green-new-deal-activist-i-shouldnt-have-to-think-about-survival-i-should-be-making-10-year-plans/) - After attending the rally on Friday that preceded the now-viral exchange about the Green New Deal resolution between the local youth group Youth Vs. Apocalypse and CA Senator Diane Feinstein, I once again went to the Senator’s San Francisco office yesterday morning for a follow up press conference. Since the debate about the substance of
- [Eclipsed Moon Kicking Off Venus/Jupiter Dance](https://svenworld.com/eclipsed-moon-kicking-off-venus-jupiter-dance/) - If you look to the sky this evening and the cloud cover in your part of the world is generous enough to thin out in the right places, you will be greeted by a deep red burst of lunar goodness also known as a Super Blood Wolf Moon. This transition is a particularly special one
- [Carsick Planet, Part 2: Reducing the fleet through personal, infrastructure & economic change](https://svenworld.com/carsick-planet-part-2-reducing-the-fleet-through-personal-infrastructure-economic-change/) - If indeed the continued proliferation of the personal automobile is not compatible with the future we want as I have suggested in Part 1 of this series, the question naturally becomes: How exactly are we going to "disarm"? Let's first posit that the goal isn't to reach "zero cars," as such a drastic all-or-nothing approach
- [California Recycling Company Says They're Drowning in Plastic, Calls for Referendum on Single Use Ban](https://svenworld.com/pioneering-recycling-company-says-theyre-drowning-in-plastic-calls-for-referendum-on-single-use-ban/) - It's no secret that the world has a plastic problem. By now, most people have been made aware of the magnitude of this crisis, thanks to recent high profile features by National Geographic, UN Environment, and 60 Minutes. The numbers on how much plastic has ended up in the world's oceans (and will remain there
- [Do people still care about climate change? #RiseForClimate says YES!](https://svenworld.com/do-people-still-care-about-climate-change-riseforclimate-says-hell-yes/) - I was wondering if there was enough room left in the "finite pool of worry" for a good turnout for the #RiseForClimate action taking place yesterday, considering all the first responses and triage needed in this current toxic state of regressive politics, not just here in the U.S., but in many other places across the
- [The Incredible Lightness of Being... Eclipsed](https://svenworld.com/the-incredible-lightness-of-being-eclipsed/) - In this age of instant news and its inevitable twin, “instant olds,” I was debating with myself whether it’s even worth posting about Monday morning’s eclipse two days late when every conceivable angle, situation, and perspective of the rare celestial event had been disseminated and ingested by afternoon through the fiber optic cable-enhanced hive mind
- [Bicycle Justice: Whose Road is it Anyway?](https://svenworld.com/bicycle-justice-whose-road-is-it-anyway/) - "These bicyclists are extremely rude, and they take up the road — four, five people at a time," complained one caller to NPR member station KPCC's show AirTalk. The caller said he lives in Mandeville Canyon, and he has had it with cyclists. "When you pull up alongside them and ask them to stay out
- [Life in Times of Trump, "I can't believe we're marching for facts" Edition](https://svenworld.com/life-in-times-of-trump-i-cant-believe-were-marching-for-facts-edition/) - This is, in fact (or is it a fact? who knows anymore), the year 2017 we find ourselves in, and thanks to the extraordinary verbal manure spreading machine posing as president that is America’s latest export, millions of rational people across the globe found it necessary last weekend to spend their Saturday getting up early,
- [What do we do now? Tomorrow documentary offers solutions without the clichés](https://svenworld.com/what-do-we-do-now-tomorrow-documentary-offers-solutions-without-the-cliches/) - Those of us concerned about the planetary challenges of our time know the varying degrees of trepidation that can accompany a showing of yet another documentary attempting to address the world's problems. There is, for one, the much dreaded gloom and doom screening that leaves you so overwhelmed and hopeless that you just want to
- [How I Learned to Stop Wasting and Love the Trash](https://svenworld.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-wasting-and-love-the-trash/) - Each year, Americans generate 389.5 million tons of municipal solid waste, 69 percent of which gets landfilled. As Edward Humes breaks it down in his eye-opening opus Garbology, that's about 7.1 pounds of garbage per person per day, 365 days a year. Collectively, Americans generate 18 times the weight of the entire adult population in
- [A Protest Funeral to Summon the Spirit of Resistance](https://svenworld.com/a-protest-funeral-to-summon-the-spirit-of-resistance/) - Yesterday's Protest Funeral for EPA, the climate, and environmental justice at the EPA’s regional office in downtown San Francisco was just another little piece in the multi-dimensional grassroots movement to push back against this pitiful administration's all out assault on our most sacred civic institutions and inspire participation and creative agitation. After sending an epic
- [Talking the Walk](https://svenworld.com/talking-the-walk/) - Time to strap on your preferred footwear, turn off the intertubes, and give those rusty bones a fair shake. 'Cause you know what they say on gravity-rich planet Earth: These boots are made for walking, but your sneakers, loafers, or bare feet will do. To whet the pedestrian appetite and spur the mood for the
- [Everything is Politics](https://svenworld.com/everything-is-politics/) - Here’s the thing about being a citizen and making your voice heard. Getting exactly what you’re asking for is just a small part of why you do it. Monday’s #Dec19 #DefendDemocracy #StopTrump event across the nation was as much about connecting with like-minded people face to face, becoming energized, sharing a moment of hope and
- [A Mighty New Recycling Beast at San Francisco's Pier 96](https://svenworld.com/a-mighty-new-recycling-beast-at-san-franciscos-pier-96/) - A couple of months ago I went on a tour of Recycle Central, San Francisco's 200,000-square-foot recycling plant on Pier 96 run by our intrepid garbage resource recovery company Recology. Ever since I wrote Where No City Has Gone Before: San Francisco Will Be World’s First Zero-Waste Town by 2020 for Alternet, I've had the
- [A material to hang your hat (and clothes) on](https://svenworld.com/a-material-to-hang-your-hat-and-clothes-on/) - A couple of months ago I was asked to do an assignment for Alternet about the future of cardboard as a viable renewable alternative to other, less renewable packaging, building, and common use materials, especially all the oil-based, non-recyclable plastics and synthetics. I'd heard about the Israeli guy whose cardboard bicycle odyssey had gotten a
- [How to Develop Greener Urban Habits](https://svenworld.com/how-to-develop-greener-urban-habits/) - Old habits die hard. However, they can be kicked to the curb if greener ones are visible, available, and within reach. Why is it such a challenge to bring more trees and birds and parks into our urban environments when we know that most humans enjoy trees and birds and parks in their lives? Why
- ["Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?"](https://svenworld.com/have-you-noticed-your-energy-is-cleaner/) - “Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?” is the subject line of an email I recently received from San Francisco Water Power Sewer, the public utility service that administers the city's recently adopted CleanPowerSF service. Programs like these are known as Community Choice Aggregation, allowing cities and counties to partner with their investor-owned utility to
- [Separated in San Francisco](https://svenworld.com/separated-in-san-francisco/) - There are very few situations in life in which the idea of being separated would seem attractive. However, on Polk Street in San Francisco, right in the heart of one of the most bustling corridors between Market Street and City Hall, cyclists for the past two years or so have been enjoying the ultimate liberation:
- [Building urban knowledge systems from the bottom up](https://svenworld.com/building-urban-knowledge-systems-from-the-bottom-up/) - A few weeks ago, my Ecocity Builders colleagues traveled to our pilot city partners in Medellín/Colombia and Cusco/Peru to facilitate professional workshops as well as onsite demos to train communities in how to collect, upload, and visualize data from their own neighborhoods. Part of our Urbinsight platform currently under development, the overarching vision of these
- [The European case for selfishness, or how to transform a burst of Bernie Power into a renewable source of Bernergy](https://svenworld.com/the-european-case-for-selfishness-or-how-to-transform-a-burst-of-bernie-power-into-a-renewable-source-of-bernergy/) - An article posted a few weeks ago at The Atlantic entitled What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries by Finnish native Anu Partanen offers some great insights into Northern European democracies that I don't think have been addressed in any depth during this historic Democratic primary. Not that Finland, Norway, Denmark, or Sweden should have
- [Springtime at Joshua Tree National Park](https://svenworld.com/springtime-at-joshua-tree-national-park/) - As National Park Week is coming to an end, I thought I’d share some of the photos I took last week during a visit to Joshua Tree National Park. In light of Congress’ Anti-Parks Caucus dedicated to the incomprehensible task of wrecking our park system I think it’s more important than ever to give visual
- [The chance the Birdie missed (but is still within grasp of a reusable mug)](https://svenworld.com/the-chance-the-birdie-missed-but-is-still-within-grasp-of-a-reusable-mug/) - Which doesn't belong in the picture above? By now, everyone has seen the iconic photo of the bird landing on Bernie Sanders’ podium at a recent rally in Portland. While the reactions to what’s come to be known as the “Birdie Sanders” incident have ranged from “the universe is rooting for Bernie” to “it’s a
- [Istanbul Inspirations](https://svenworld.com/istanbul-inspirations/) - Just about two months ago today I landed in Istanbul for a "work and play" week that would include discussing new visions for cities in the age of climate change at the Ecocity World Summit while simultaneously wandering and cycling through this storied corner of human civilization. As could be expected, there was as much
- [The Winter Beet: Why I'm still an optimist...](https://svenworld.com/why-im-still-an-optimist/) - Solstice Greetings! It's been a while since my last dip into the beet spread, so with the sun going south I thought this would be an opportune time for a gentle tug on the soul vine. In many ways, the long hours of darkness are probably best suited for silence and reflection. Especially in this
- [Postcard from Abu Dhabi: On the Road to Masdar City, Desert Ecocity in the Making](https://svenworld.com/postcard-from-abu-dhabi-on-the-road-to-masdar-city-desert-ecocity-in-the-making/) - Last month saw the 11th edition of the International Ecocity Conference Series that was first held 25 years ago in Berkeley, California and since has traveled to cities across every continent of our beautiful planet, save for Antarctica. As a long-time friend and team member in various capacities of the series' conveners, Ecocity Builders, I've
- [Carsick Planet, Part 3: Get around. Not too fast. Mostly walk.](https://svenworld.com/carsick-planet-part-3-get-around-not-too-fast-mostly-walk/) - The previous segment of this series left off discussing how lifestyle choices, infrastructure, and a new economic thinking must work in tandem to change the overall trajectory from a car-first to a people-oriented mobility Zeitgeist that can lead to a reduction of the current global automobile fleet of 1.2 billion to no more than a
- [Carsick Planet, Part 1: Why the world needs FEWER not better cars](https://svenworld.com/carsick-planet-part-1-why-the-world-needs-fewer-not-better-cars/) - With the upcoming 21st UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) this December promising to be a multi-lane highway towards a low carbon society, it begs the question how this lofty aspiration squares with a 1.2 billion fleet of automobiles worldwide, projected to grow to 2 billion by 2035 and double to 2.5 billion in 2050.
- [Bay Area reduces water consumption by up to 40%, civilization does not collapse](https://svenworld.com/bay-area-reduces-water-consumption-by-up-to-40-civilization-does-not-collapse/) - Good news! People are capable of conserving and scaling back when they have to and want to. From SFGate: The region’s widespread reductions in water use in June, which were as high as 40 percent in the Contra Costa Water District when compared to the same month in 2013, marked a vast improvement over previous
- [How to assess the health of a complex urban organism](https://svenworld.com/how-to-assess-the-health-of-a-complex-urban-organism/) - Have you ever stood in the supermarket aisle, looking at rows of detergent or snacks, trying to decide which one's packaging and ingredients would do the least environmental damage if it landed in your shopping cart? Have you found yourself fretting over whether the conventionally grown tomato from your local farmer would be better for
- [Ten Years a Citizen](https://svenworld.com/ten-years-a-citizen/) - Sunday (05/10/15) was my 10 year anniversary as an American citizen. What has it meant? What have I learned? Well, since I’ve never felt particularly patriotic in the conventional sense about my birth and growing-up country Germany (for obvious reasons), I didn’t expect a new (additional) passport to trigger my inner flag-waver all of a
- [Ways in which your garden is like a city](https://svenworld.com/ways-in-which-your-garden-is-like-a-city/) - If you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the strawberries got munched by bugs. If those mishaps didn't deflate you enough to replace the whole yard with a bocce court, you probably rebooted your
- [California drought: can a few drops in your bucket make a difference?](https://svenworld.com/california-drought-can-a-few-drops-in-your-bucket-make-a-difference/) - In light of California's historic drought and Governor Brown's executive order to impose a 25 percent reduction on municipal water use, my partner and I thought about ways we can conserve more water than we already do. The "problem" we have is that like many long-time California residents who have been through droughts before, water
- [Venice is for Lovers . . . of Ecocities & Eye Candy](https://svenworld.com/venice-is-for-lovers-of-ecocities-eye-candy/) - One stop on my recent trip to Europe was Venice. Visiting my parents (who live in nearby Vicenza) on my way to attend the Ecocity World Summit in Istanbul, I felt like I had arrived in the ultimate ecocity before ever getting to the conference. I'm of course aware that Venice is a unique city
- [We did it! Biggest Anti-Fracking Demonstration in U.S. History!](https://svenworld.com/we-did-it-biggest-anti-fracking-demonstration-in-u-s-history/) - So a bunch of concerned citizens of all stripes came out to Oakland yesterday to talk some fracking sense. More specifically, according to 350.org's count, over 8,000 of us marched... and gathered to call for a ban on fracking in California. To me, it seemed like a sea of people. The message was, specifically, for
- [Zen Monks to CA Governor Brown: "Don't even THINK about Fracking!"](https://svenworld.com/zen-monks-to-ca-governor-brown-dont-even-think-about-fracking/) - I have a sticker in my office that says "Zen Buddhism: Don't even think about it!" This kind of humorous take often leads to the (false) perception that Buddhism and its more western-palatable "mindfulness" cousin are about disengagement, a sort of blissful denial of reality in which the practitioner's magical skill is to sit there
- [How Genius Gets Around...](https://svenworld.com/how-genius-gets-around/) - Einstein on a bike February 6, 1933. Came across this photo as I was biking an errand and stopped for lunch at a local biker favorite. Turns out it was taken on February 6, 1933 by a Caltech trustee named Ben Meyer at his home in Santa Barbara. I often wonder what Einstein would think
- [The dirty truth about life in the digital age](https://svenworld.com/the-dirty-truth-about-life-in-the-digital-age/) - In response to my recent post about composting food waste I was sent a graphic about e-waste, outlining another major component of our urban waste that is literally spiraling out of control. I usually don't post these kinds of marketing gimmicks to drive traffic to other sites, but since this is a topic that needs
- [Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land](https://svenworld.com/turning-waste-into-wine-a-pilgrimage-to-the-composted-land/) - It is said that Jesus was able to turn water into wine. While such truly miraculous skill to this day remains confined to the realm of saints and sages, I bring good news about a wine-making technique that is — especially in light of Pope Francis' recent warning about the destructive consequences of unbridled consumerism
- [When Little People Take Over Big Streets](https://svenworld.com/when-little-people-take-over-big-streets/) - Yesterday was the kickoff to the 2012 Sunday Streets season in San Francisco, an event that creates a large, temporary, public space by closing off stretches of a neighborhood’s streets to automobile traffic, and opening them to pedestrians, bicyclists, and activities. The opener to what promises to be another glorious season of people-powered streets took
- [It was 20 years ago today: 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake](https://svenworld.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1989-loma-prieta-earthquake/) - This is my "where were you" story I had fun with a few years ago... Something warm and viscous was dripping down the back of my pants. I was on my hands and knees, facing a pair of alert Japanese eyes and the frantic stares of a Moroccan, an Argentinean and a Texan, all hunched
- [Directions have consequences](https://svenworld.com/directions-have-consequences/) - Reading the headlines in the news this week I am reminded that things are really changing. It's still hard to fathom that I could actually agree with something the Government does, rubbing my eyes as if waking from a dream. There he is, President Obama, talking to me like an adult, talking to us like
- [God is timeless and nameless](https://svenworld.com/god-is-timeless-and-nameless/) - I've been wanting to write about Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue by Neale Donald Walsch for a while, such a great subject, so here it is: I found this book in a dusty little corner of my local used bookstore (yes, they do still exist) and was intrigued by the title and premise.
- [It’s (too) easy being green](https://svenworld.com/its-too-easy-being-green/) - Not too long ago calling yourself "green" landed you in the public perception kitchen somewhere between twirling granola hippie and hopeless romantic. In 2002 I wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled A Vote that counts - A Green German speaks his mind about how difficult it was for me to see the
- [Is God religious?](https://svenworld.com/is-god-religious/) - Last weekend I was invited to a Bat Mitzvah at a conservative synagogue, a three hour service with enough chants and prayers and rituals to qualify as a solid introduction to Judaism. I am, of course, German, the mere mention of which should add a few extra layers of archetypal association in most people's minds,
- [Things not to do in 2012: Cancel your 2013 appointments](https://svenworld.com/things-not-to-do-in-2012-cancel-your-2013-appointments/) - There's a lot of buzz these days regarding December 21, 2012, the mysterious and mythical date in the Mayan calendar on which either a great shift is supposed to happen or the world is going to end, depending on who is explaining. If you do a Google search on 2012, you get all kinds of
- [Global Warming: A Path Beyond Denial and Despair](https://svenworld.com/global-warming-a-path-beyond-denial-and-despair/) - One of the most poignant lines I remember from An Inconvenient Truth was Al Gore's concern that in light of the problem's magnitude there was a danger that people might go straight from denial to despair. In other words, if you allow the numbers and prognostications concerning global warming to sink into your consciousness you
- [So you wanna talk about Hitler...](https://svenworld.com/so-you-wanna-talk-about-hitler/) - We've seen the new meme as of late by Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and the corporate anti health care enablers to call President Obama a racist and compare him to Adolf Hitler. Thankfully, there's a lot of push back to this disturbing trend, ranging from the last wails of a dying breed to fascism on the
- [We're All Deathers](https://svenworld.com/were-all-deathers/) - Adopting new words like 'deather' into the ridicule lexicon of bizarre right wing histrionics has been an effective defense against the recent onslaught of over-the-top demagoguery directed at President Obama and health care reform. While it's only natural to mock the absurdity of calling end of life counseling 'death panels,' a closer look at the
- [A Sneak-Peak Interview with the Messiah](https://svenworld.com/a-sneak-peak-interview-with-the-messiah/) - Tonight on The Charlie Tulip Show: Jesus Christ The year was 78 ASC (After the Second Coming). Jesus Christ, on his second visit to Earth, was about to turn seventy-eight, and since humans had stopped using technology to prolong physical life by any means necessary, seventy-eight was considered a ripe old age. Although most of
- [Ocean in Motion: Sail On, Teddy...](https://svenworld.com/ocean-in-motion-sail-on-teddy/) - Water is the element on earth that carries our soul. There are no boundaries in water, as all parts are bound together by an inseparable whole. There is something soothing and mysterious in water, an invitation to be close to the source. We spend our first nine months in water, and throughout life are drawn
- [Let the Grand Moments Come to You](https://svenworld.com/let-the-grand-moments-come-to-you/) - You never know when you might get hit by the realization that you play an integral part in shaping this world, that all your actions are reflected in the constitution of the state of human relations and that you can serve as an inspiration to this state by opening your ears, eyes and heart to
- [Are You Home Yet?](https://svenworld.com/are-you-home-yet/) - I live in the Mission District in San Francisco, where I see and interact with homeless folks every day. While there is much to be said about the social, economic and political causes of homelessness (lack of health care, unemployment, depression, physical abuse, alcoholism, etc), I think that one of the biggest obstacles to getting
- [350: The Mind Searches for what the Heart Knows](https://svenworld.com/350-the-mind-searches-for-what-the-heart-knows/) - Now that the big activities and festivities surrounding climate action day are over and everyone is back to their daily routines, I want to take a moment to reflect on the 350 theme. I've had a somewhat mixed relationship with the whole idea, because I wasn't sure whether a mere number could really inspire the
- [Gong the Rat](https://svenworld.com/gong-the-rat/) - The current issue of The Mountain Astrologer (Feb/Mar 2010) is running the entire Aquarius story from Dancing on the Brink of the World, Gong the Rat. It's about a young rat who is tired of living underground in the brave new Rodent Republic of Ratland, and his quest to see the light. I'm really psyched
- [Rabbi Michael Lerner: How to heal from Abandoned-by-Obama Syndrome](https://svenworld.com/rabbi-michael-lerner-healing-from-post-traumatic-abandoned-by-obama-syndrome/) - In an excellent OpEdNews article, Rabbi Michael Lerner writes about the recent Strategy Conference for Liberals and Progressives to address "How To Support Obama to BE the Obama Americans Thought We Elected." What I love about this article is that it really transcends the poisonous dichotomy of Obama/Good vs. Obama/Bad, amending conventional political thought with
- [To be a citisven](https://svenworld.com/to-be-a-citisven/) - Five years ago today I became a U.S. citizen. As I'm currently visiting my native Germany it occurs to me how fortunate I am to have had the experience of spending half of my life in each country and immersing myself in two different cultures. There's more to be said about this journey when time
- [WARNING: Graphic Humor May Cause Severe Climate Change Awareness](https://svenworld.com/warning-graphic-humor-may-cause-severe-climate-change-awareness/) - So here I am, fresh off the proverbial boat to witness Week 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru, aka COP20, or the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties, which, frankly, feels like the 200th. To be sure, under normal circumstances I would have no business getting
- [What Santa does after Christmas](https://svenworld.com/what-santa-does-after-christmas/) - Recology's "treecycling" program turns discarded christmas trees into energy instead of taking up space in the landfill.
- [Whose Economy is it, anyway?](https://svenworld.com/whose-economy-is-it-anyway/) - It's funny how sometimes we disqualify ourselves from even discussing a subject because we don't think we know enough about it. What's even funnier is how the people who profess to know so much about said subject often turn out to be pretty clueless. Take "The Economy." My distaste for the topic dates back to
- [Slow down for a second](https://svenworld.com/slow-down-for-a-second/) - Gosh, it feels like the world is coming to an end, at least in our heads. Of course there are huge problems in the world but if you watch the news you feel like we're on the precipice, ready to step into a free fall to be greeted by an inferno. But if you go
- [What makes you happy...?](https://svenworld.com/what-makes-you-happy/) - What's the meaning of happiness? Have we collectively overemphasized its material manifestations? Could we alter our poisoned politics, economy and ecology by the way we define happiness?
- [The Latte Hummer](https://svenworld.com/the-latte-hummer/) - Ok, so if any student on a distant dwarf-planet in a far away solar system ever gets the assignment to write an essay about human beings on planet Earth during the age of pomp and waste, the exhibit above will serve as indispensable research material.
- [health care choices? my socialist german ass!](https://svenworld.com/health-care-choices-my-socialist-german-ass/) - Ok, I'm not complaining here, because I know that my health care premiums are still very low compared to how a lot of people in this country literally get plunged into bankruptcy and even to their deaths by outrageous rates and often no coverage at all. But after getting a letter from Anthem Blue Cross
- [We're all Conservatives now](https://svenworld.com/were-all-conservatives-now/) - I've always been slightly put off by the whole conservative/liberal labeling we're constantly subjected to. For one thing, it's so overly simplistic to divide people into two camps, like that whole red state/blue state charade, as if we were all these one dimensional robots who fit into little boxes cut out by our political puppeteers.
- [Blaspheming at the Altar of Technology](https://svenworld.com/blaspheming-at-the-altar-of-technology/) - Since the new Pirates & Teabaggers™ game has been getting so much attention recently, I thought I'd give a little love to another happening last week that was also fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but just like Pirates & Teabaggers™, offers great opportunity for deeper reflection and discourse. I'm talking about the
- [The Wizard of Word in the Tower of Song](https://svenworld.com/the-wizard-of-word-in-the-tower-of-song/) - photo by jonl1973 on flickr. I saw Leonard Cohen and his fantastic band at the exquisitely intimate Paramount Theater in Oakland, CA last night. I'm still buzzing with both giddiness and a deep feeling of grace for being invited to 3 1/2 hours of soul massage. Aside from a sublime sound created by a 9-piece
- [Vacating Down Memory Lane at 60 mpg](https://svenworld.com/vacating-down-memory-lane-at-60-mpg/) - It's almost summer! This is for all those who've been spending too much time on their computers and haven't taken a vacation in a while... About a year ago my dad passed away. He was a state judge in Germany for over forty years, and much of his time was spent sitting at his desk
- [I shook the hand . . . and then it fed me](https://svenworld.com/i-shook-the-hand-and-then-it-fed-me/) - Last month I had the great honor and pleasure not only of shaking the farmer's hand, but be served a most delicious dinner by said hand(s). This is the story of one farm that didn't exist ten years ago and is now feeding a lot of happy customers in the Seattle area.
- [The Elephant Tree](https://svenworld.com/the-elephant-tree/) - This is a tree in Sutro Park that Deb and I almost bumped into on solstice day. It reminded me that our planet has a magical way of communicating directly to our imagination. Sometimes her signals are as obvious as this one, but if we tune into our Third Eye more consciously we're prone to
- [Pigs in Oakland...?](https://svenworld.com/pigs-in-oakland/) - Farm City - The Education of an Urban Farmerby Novella CarpenterPenguin Press. There are people — in fact, the vast majority of Homo sapiens — who see and define their existence through the lens of what they do: Teachers, bus drivers, nurses, architects, accountants, and any number of professionals whose modus operandi is collectively understood
- [I want to ride my bicycle (from SF to Amsterdam)!](https://svenworld.com/i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle-from-sf-to-amsterdam/) - Last week the City of San Francisco adopted a new bicycle plan that will launch 45 new projects to improve biking in the city and add almost double the number of existing bike lanes to the city streets. None of this would have been possible without a growing movement of people willing to get out
- [Former CIGNA executive says Michael Moore was right all along](https://svenworld.com/former-cigna-executive-says-michael-moore-was-right-all-along/) - While most of us know that the insurance companies literally go over dead bodies in their profiteering ways, in an interview with Bill Moyers that aired July 10th on PBS, Wendell Potter, former Head of Corporate Communications at CIGNA, admits that Michael Moore nailed it on the head in his movie, Sicko. It's a 30 minute interview that comes close to a confessional of the health insurance industry's enslavement to Wall Street, and I really really hope everybody in this country gets to see this.
- [Wendell Potter: A Bureaucrat Who Stood Between You and Your Doctor](https://svenworld.com/wendell-potter-a-bureaucrat-who-stood-between-you-and-your-doctor/) - This is Part II in a four-part series inspired by Bill Moyers’ interview with Wendell Potter, former Head of Corporate Communications at CIGNA insurance company. The revelations in the interview went way beyond the health care debate. It was a glance into the workings of capitalism at its worst, within the framework of an industrial
- [Where were you on July 20, 1969?](https://svenworld.com/where-were-you-on-july-20-1969/) - This is a photo of my partner, Deb, as a 3-year old, taken on July 20, 1969 by her dad, Don Baida, as she is watching the moon landing with her mom. This is the first time it's been published — this week it made it onto the commemorative moon landing pages of NASA and
- [Beware the Locawashers!](https://svenworld.com/beware-the-locawashers/) - In an article entitled The Corporate Co-Opt of "Local" author and senior researcher with the New Rules Project Stacy Mitchell describes a new trend in which a growing number of corporations are using the public's growing desire for locally produced and grown products as a marketing and branding tool to increase their bottom line. This
- [Taking back the streets](https://svenworld.com/taking-back-the-streets/) - Sunday Streets is a great SF event where several city blocks are closed for automobiles, rotating around different parts of the city to show how cool and how possible it is to get around on bike, roller skates, scooter, foot, paw, or any other non-fossil fuel burning engine. Today was my neighborhood's turn, The Mission,
- [Michael Moore: As American as Pie](https://svenworld.com/michael-moore-as-american-as-pie/) - This is Part III in a four-part series inspired by Bill Moyers’ interview with Wendell Potter, former Head of Corporate Communications at CIGNA insurance company. I am an immigrant. I came to the US from my native Germany in 1987 to go to college. While much has been written lately about the superior European health
- [Sunrise over San Francisco](https://svenworld.com/sunrise-over-san-francisco/) - It was an unseasonably hot summer day in the usually cold and foggy city by the bay. While it's the West coast sunsets that get most of the attention, we were treated to a fairy tale sunrise this morning. It started like this... throughout the day the sky was a field of dreams... at times
- [Keeping Your Kitchen Clean](https://svenworld.com/keeping-your-kitchen-clean/) - Manu Chao, Coachella 2007, Photo by Paul Familetti I came across this old clip from an interview with Manu Chao I read a few years ago, somewhere deep down in my file drawer. I cut it out because it spoke to me then, and it still does: What I always say is that the only
- [A Progressive Dinner: Celebrating Interdependence](https://svenworld.com/a-progressive-dinner-celebrating-interdependence/) - From plastic garbage in the middle of the Pacific and raging forest fires to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, hardly a day goes by without mother Earth's feedback to our unsustainable human ways. In an ironic twist of cause and effect, the very things that have enabled us to become ostensibly independent of
- [Ecocities: From the Bottoms Up](https://svenworld.com/ecocities-from-the-bottoms-up/) - While there is much to be said about the inherent cultural and political conditions that led to the decay of a once thriving working- and middle-class community, this is ultimately a story of how social justice and environmental justice go hand in hand, and how addressing them together can lead to the most unlikely alliances and bring about redemption and transformation.
- [Fire Ravages Family Farm - PLEASE HELP](https://svenworld.com/fire-ravages-family-farm-please-help/) - Two weeks ago, on September 3, a fire at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, California, burned down two chicken houses with 1000 baby chicks trapped in it, the old 1880s barn, thirty acres of pasture for the meat birds, beautiful oaks, and all the old plum trees. Alexis and Eric Koefoed, who in the late
- [Yes We Canned!](https://svenworld.com/yes-we-canned/) - I knew fall was right around the corner when the box of farm fresh vegetables we get biweekly from our local farm was loaded with dark red, juicy heirloom tomatoes a couple of weeks ago. In fact, Mariquita Farm had so many tomatoes that they were selling them by the boxes. My partner Deb and
- [Climate Change Superheroes](https://svenworld.com/climate-change-superheroes/) - The last 50 years have witnessed a steep worldwide increase in the percentage of population living within cities, with a current global average of about 60%. This trend is predicted to continue, a fact that makes urban areas the single largest sources of carbon emissions contributing to resource depletion and climate change. If Washington D.C. were to be rebuilt from a sprawling car-centered to a high density public transit and pedestrian based city, its current annual per capita Greenhouse gas emissions of 19.7 tons of CO2 could be reduced to resemble those of Barcelona (3.4 tons) or Rio de Janeiro (2.3 tons).
- [Moving in the City: A Promise For Better Health](https://svenworld.com/moving-in-the-city-a-promise-for-better-health/) - The current healthcare debate has highlighted many problems with the U.S. healthcare system, such as escalating costs, insurance industry profits, denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions, and the fact that almost 50 million Americans are uninsured. While a private for-profit health insurance system that has run amok needs to be addressed in the form of
- [Meanwhile, Germany is back in the Nuclear Poker Game](https://svenworld.com/meanwhile-germany-is-back-in-the-nuclear-poker-game/) - Nuclear Poker Heats Up in Berlin is the title of an article in this week's edition of Der Spiegel, the widely respected German news magazine. Elections have consequences, they say, and with Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) poised to say good-bye to the grand coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) and tie the governing
- [Village Bottoms, Vol. 2: Don’t save us, work with us!](https://svenworld.com/village-bottoms-vol-2-dont-save-us-work-with-us/) - A few weeks ago I wrote a piece entitled From the Bottoms Up about the Village Bottoms neighborhood in West Oakland where a dedicated group of African American residents is rising from the ashes of urban blight. A history of ill-informed and discriminatory regional planning decisions cut the community off from the social and economic
- [Sex and the Eco-City](https://svenworld.com/sex-and-the-eco-city/) - That's the title of an article in this week's Time Magazine. Being a great aficionado of all things simple and eco as it relates to cities (walking, bicycling, urban gardens, farms, public transit, etc), I was instantly aroused by such a promising title. Alas, the story is "only" about green sex toys. As the green
- [Interview with visionary bassist Kai Eckhardt](https://svenworld.com/interview-with-visionary-bassist-kai-eckhardt/) - Last weekend visionary musician Kai Eckhardt presented/performed at the 2009 Bioneers Conference. Perfect time to dig up excerpts from an interview I did with him in 2005, during a period of great darkness. In it, he speaks of the power within each of us to use creative expression and our imagination to change the social and psychological dynamics that have put our planet in such peril.
- [Village Bottoms, Vol. 3: Getting a taste of what it means to be Black](https://svenworld.com/village-bottoms-vol-3-getting-a-taste-of-what-it-means-to-be-black/) - Why not come to West Oakland to get a taste of what it means to be black? These were the words of poet, artist, and community builder Marcel Diallo as he led us, a group of planners, developers, city representatives and curious bystanders, on a tour through the Village Bottoms, a West Oakland working class
- [To Pollanate a Berry](https://svenworld.com/to-pollanate-a-berry/) - Last night I had the great privilege to see and hear two of the most influential and inspiring figures in the sustainable food movement in conversation. While Michael Pollan has become a household name through books like Omnivore's Dilemma, and most recently, films like Food Inc. and The Botany of Desire, he took the interviewer's
- [We’re going to Berlin!](https://svenworld.com/were-going-to-berlin/) - I'm what people would call a product of twenty-two years of San Francisco schooling: a gay-friendly musician who shops at farmers markets and prays at the altar of composting. I read Vonnegut, Chomsky, Pollan and Berry, play in a rock band, practice astrology and work for organizations with names like Ecocity Builders. In short, I
- [Astro Ball](https://svenworld.com/astro-ball/) - I don't like tooting my own horn, but this is going to be a great show tomorrow night. If you're in the Bay Area you should consider stopping by, there'll be rockin' music, multimedia interludes, great people, awesome venue, costumes, and you'll learn about astrology in ways you never imagined. Here's the skinny: Chemystry Set's
- [Astral Impressions](https://svenworld.com/astral-impressions/) - This was a lot of fun, giving astrology the playfulness it deserves. Last Friday, my band Chemystry Set performed Dancing on the Brink of the World at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco. Accompanied by a multimedia presentation, slides of Evelyn Terranova's paintings and evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest's audio interludes, here are some photos to
- [The End of the Year](https://svenworld.com/the-end-of-the-year/) - Today is Black Friday, the pinnacle of American-style consumerism and all that has gone wrong with the elusive pursuit of happiness. I was looking at a poem this morning I wrote 22 years ago on my first Christmas Day in America after watching my host family bombard each other with presents stacked almost to the
- [Justice in the Bottoms? You be the Judge](https://svenworld.com/justice-in-the-bottoms-you-be-the-judge/) - Some of you may be familiar with my diaries about the Village Bottoms neighborhood in West Oakland and the African American community's struggles and efforts to rise from the ashes of urban blight. I've been drawn to this story not only because it engenders much of the social, environmental and racial injustices of urban planning
- [Hello Copenhagen...? Istanbul speaking!](https://svenworld.com/hello-copenhagen-istanbul-speaking/) - So there, on the Golden Horn of the Bosphorus Strait where Asia meets Europe and ancient history whispers words of wisdom into civilization's ears, a community of architects, planners, designers, policy makers, and political leaders will gather to envision the sustainable city of the future.
- [Dancing on the Brink of the World reviewed in The Mountain Astrologer](https://svenworld.com/dancing-on-the-brink-of-the-world-reviewed-in-the-mountain-astrologer/) - The current issue (Dec/Jan 2010) of The Mountain Astrologer, one of the leading periodicals of the global astrology community, has a great review of Dancing on the Brink of the World. Mary Plumb gave us a good chunk of a page, so it's worth going out and getting the whole issue at your local news
- [Pedal Magic on the Bosphorus (a photo essay from rainy Istanbul)](https://svenworld.com/pedal-magic-on-the-bosphorus-a-photo-essay-from-rainy-istanbul/) - As some of you know I am attending and working at the Ecocity City World Summit in Istanbul this week. Running concurrently to the climate summit in Copenhagen we are trying to come up with concrete plans and solutions to meet any targets that will be agreed upon. With more than 50% of the world's
- [The Fear of Flying](https://svenworld.com/the-fear-of-flying/) - On Christmas Day I found myself in the air, flying from Frankfurt to San Francisco, at the same time Jasper Schuringa leaped to the rescue of 256 passengers on Northwest flight 253. Save for some turbulence my flight was uneventful but when I arrived at SFO and heard what had happened in the skies over
- [Not all things medieval are backwards](https://svenworld.com/not-all-things-medieval-are-backwards/) - Part of our human condition seems to be that we think we're continuously getting smarter. The brain, that wonderful organ located somewhere between our ears, thrives on the notion that we've come a long way and are just now climbing up that last steep incline, reaching for the apex of the evolutionary ladder. Our insatiable
- [January epiphany: Playing with Michael Pollan](https://svenworld.com/january-epiphany-playing-with-michael-pollan/) - Live life. Not too fast. Mostly walk.
- [Good things happen when you live and breathe your passion](https://svenworld.com/good-things-happen-when-you-live-and-breathe-your-passion/) - Matt136 - A Solo show at Autobody Fine Art, opening reception on 1/9/10 Last Saturday night something amazing happened: An artist who'd been dwelling in relative obscurity for most of his career popped onto the scene like a cork of a fine, aged bottle of wine. Well, perhaps not quite that dramatic — after all,
- [The kids are just getting started](https://svenworld.com/the-kids-are-just-getting-started/) - Sometimes it's good to look in a direction we often don't look for guidance when we deal with our adult problems and complaints. We generally claim that we do most of our struggling and fighting for our children, but when it comes down to making decisions or picking a path we hardly ever listen to
- [Holy Crap!!! The Earth is Round!](https://svenworld.com/holy-crap-the-earth-is-round/) - It's one of those things we all know, because we've learned it in school or from our parents. Or we've seen NASA pictures from out of space showing us the little round ball we live on. But for our everyday perception and outlook the earth may as well be flat. We don't actually feel the
- [Firsthand report from Haiti](https://svenworld.com/firsthand-report-from-haiti/) - Photo by The Lafanmi Selavi Photography Workshop A friend of Deb's, Jennifer Pantaléon, director of Zanmi Lakay, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for current and former street children in Haiti, arrived last week in Haiti to be on the ground to help these extremely marginalized youth whose circumstances are now
- [New Study: Cyclists and pedestrians still getting shortchanged](https://svenworld.com/new-study-cyclists-and-pedestrians-still-getting-shortchanged/) - Okay, so we know that despite troubles in Detroit and Toyotaland the automobile is still king in the US of A. But sometimes it takes some raw numbers to bring home just how much the entire country's infrastructure is stacked against non-driving traffic participants. The Alliance for Biking and Walking just released the 2010 Benchmarking
- [The Power of Nearness](https://svenworld.com/the-power-of-nearness/) - Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein City planners aren't usually on the list of people we associate with paradigm-shifting embers of wisdom. Spiritual leaders, artists, and philosophers —
- [Streetsmart on both sides of the Bay](https://svenworld.com/streetsmart-on-both-sides-of-the-bay/) - The last couple of days saw some great news for Bay Area pedestrians and all those who enjoy car-free European-style city centers. As John King reports in yesterday's SF Chronicle, Center Street between Shattuck and the UC Campus in Berkeley is poised to become an oasis for urban living. After literally decades of going through
- [Goodnight and Goodluck Jonathan: The Niger Delta Cries Out for EcoJustice](https://svenworld.com/goodnight-and-goodluck-jonathan-the-niger-delta-cries-out-for-ecojustice/) - So while last week's peaceful transfer of power to Goodluck Jonathan to replace ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua (who has been in a hospital in Saudi Arabia since Nov. 23, leaving a huge power vacuum) came as welcome news to a country with a long history of political instability, repression and military coups, it is but a small tile in a fragile mosaic. One thing, however, is certain: Oil has not been a blessing to the Delta and her people, and nowhere has this been documented more luminously than in photojournalist Ed Kashi's book, Curse of the Black Gold.
- [Remember to Love](https://svenworld.com/remember-to-love/) - Whenever I walk by this car that's often parked on my street I chuckle at the ensuing discussion in my head between the inner cynic and the eternal dreamer. There are days when the cynic wins, heckling me with stereotypes of just another Volvo-driving, Birkenstock-clad idealist, engaged in a lost cause and trying to get
- [Liberate Your Space!](https://svenworld.com/liberate-your-space/) - Hooray! My partner in life and living simply, Debra Baida, just launched her blog Liberated Spaces. It's a smorgasbord of ideas on how to cut out all the excess stuff we acquire in the hopes of making our lives more meaningful but instead end up making everything more complicated. Sure, I'm biased, but I'm also
- [A Year to Live](https://svenworld.com/a-year-to-live/) - The secret to life is to die before you die and find there’s nothing to be afraid of. - Eckhart Tolle What if this were your last year to live? Would you go out and party, travel the world, do all kinds of things you've always wanted to explore but were afraid to do? Would
- [The Universe is really pretty awesome](https://svenworld.com/the-universe-is-really-pretty-awesome/) - Jupiter's moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa That's what my 11-year old friend Maggie said to me last night. And you know what? She's right. Just look at this! I got these from two awesome photo diaries by troubadour on daily kos. For more amazing photos and stories, check out: Photo Tour of The Solar
- [What comes out the other end...](https://svenworld.com/what-comes-out-the-other-end/) - I've always been reluctant to get behind the "stash your trash" mantra. Not because I enjoy stepping on gum or approve of garbage dumped along the road, but because of the "out of sight, out of mind" mentality it instills in us. The very idea of "trash" implies that something is inherently worthless just because
- [One Man’s Portfolio is Another Man’s Oil Spill](https://svenworld.com/one-mans-portfolio-is-another-mans-oil-spill/) - Whenever I have a conversation about the environmental and social injustices around the country and the world, it follows a similar pattern: Look at Place X, Y or Z, it’s really messed up. Their natural resources (insert precious metal, timber, or fossil fuel) are being exploited by outside interests or corporations, enabled by a corrupt/complicit
- [Berkeley City Council endorses pedestrian plaza](https://svenworld.com/berkeley-city-council-endorses-pedestrian-plaza/) - Success! At close to midnight last night, the Berkeley City Council voted to endorse landscape architect Walter Hood's proposal to transform Center Street between Shattuck and the UC Campus in Berkeley into a pedestrian plaza. The vote directs staff to work with Ecocity Builders to move it forward and apply for upcoming funding opportunities. If
- [The ECSTASY of Making Art, Not Waste](https://svenworld.com/the-ecstasy-of-making-art-not-waste/) - "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein This is crossposted from my post at daily kos for the E.C.S.T.A.S.Y. series — End Consumption, Save The Air
- [Have you driven a [insert car name] lately?](https://svenworld.com/have-you-driven-a-insert-car-name-lately/) - I don't like offshore drilling either. If you care about the effects of pollution, climate change, and a whole range of other issues, it's counter-intuitive. But I'm really torn, especially after having learned so much about the incredible damage our thirst for oil does to poor countries around the world. From Uganda and The Sudan
- [It's not about the color of your shell. it's about the content of your yolk.](https://svenworld.com/its-not-about-the-color-of-your-shell-its-about-the-color-of-your-yolk/) - Just a thought that came up today... photos taken at Oxbow Farm.
- [How street music is making the planet cooler](https://svenworld.com/how-street-music-is-making-the-planet-cooler/) - Information Is Not Knowledge... Knowledge Is Not Wisdom... Wisdom Is Not Truth... Truth Is Not Beauty... Beauty Is Not Love... Love Is Not Music... Music Is THE BEST... - Frank Zappa While it's important to understand the science and statistics behind climate change, the solutions are often not as linear as we'd like to believe.
- [You can't wipe that spill with a Kleenex®](https://svenworld.com/you-cant-wipe-that-spill-with-a-kleenex/) - The disaster in the Gulf is many things. In fact, it is so many things that after seeing all that's been shown, reading all that's been written, and hearing all that's been said, perhaps one of the most fitting descriptions of it would be: It's very complicated. From BP's breathtaking incompetence/unpreparedness to our government's overwhelming
- [Ecocity Dreamin'](https://svenworld.com/ecocity-dreamin/) - What can I say, I love the intersection of art and ecology. It's one of the reasons I respect the work Richard Register and Kirstin Miller have been doing with Ecocity Builders so much. They realize that in order for real change to happen in the way we look not only at urban life but
- [Bye Bye Plastic Bags](https://svenworld.com/bye-bye-plastic-bags/) - I don't know if this has received much attention, but seeing that plastic bags are made from petrochemicals, I thought this is actually a quite timely bit of news: The California Assembly voted 41 to 27 to ban single-use plastic grocery bags, and the bill is expected to pass the senate and get signed by
- [Lethal Birdbath](https://svenworld.com/lethal-birdbath/) - The photo above is the Grand Prize winner of the Visuals & Voices Eco-Art, Photography, Poetry and Writing Contest for Bay Area Middle & High School Students. I thought this amazing piece of art by Rhianna Hixon, a 12th grader at the School of the Arts in San Francisco was worth some extra-regional exposure. Pictures
- [The answer is blowing in the wind](https://svenworld.com/the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind/) - On April 27th, exactly one week after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Environment Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen officially inaugurated Alpha Ventus, Germany’s first offshore wind farm 45 kilometers off the coast of the island of Borkum in the North Sea. Built by a consortium of German utility giants EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall Europe, this 250 million
- [Truth and Reconciliation for the Gulf](https://svenworld.com/truth-and-reconciliation-for-the-gulf/) - I'd like to present an idea that has been going around my head since it became clear that the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe wasn't "just" another oil spill: If we are looking to achieve true and lasting environmental justice and restoration, it would behoove us to set up something along the lines of an ecological Truth
- [Dreaming the World into Being - Part I](https://svenworld.com/dreaming-the-world-into-being/) - An interview in two parts with author and shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman Part I How to Thrive in Changing Times: simple tools to create true health, wealth, peace, and joy for yourself and the earth Paperback, 176 pages Weiser Books (January 1, 2010) available at Amazon More about the author at sandraingerman.com Being a blogger
- [Dreaming the World into Being - Part II](https://svenworld.com/dreaming-the-world-into-being-part-ii/) - An interview in two parts with author and shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman Part II Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation Paperback, 360 pages Sounds True (February 28, 2010) available at Amazon More about the author at sandraingerman.com Yesterday's segment of the interview focused on how to overcome personal despair and
- [Bees ‘R’ Us](https://svenworld.com/bees-r-us/) - Who would do such a thing??? From the Hayes Valley Farm (SF) blog: Sometime between the late afternoons of Monday July 19 and Tuesday July 20, an unknown person(s) intentionally sprayed pesticide into the entrances and ventilation holes of the two San Francisco Bee-Cause (SFBC) honey bee colonies at HVF. The same person(s) tried to
- [More Istanbul bicycle adventures](https://svenworld.com/more-istanbul-bicycle-adventures/) - Today my piece about Murat Suyabatmaz and his intrepid cycling friends in Istanbul was posted on sfgate. Check it out: Istanbul and Bicycling, Like Dark Bread It's Good For Everyone It has excerpts from an interview I did with Murat last December, so I thought for those who'd like to read the whole interview, I'd
- [What on Earth is an Ecocity?](https://svenworld.com/what-on-earth-is-an-ecocity/) - International Ecocity Standards is a new and exciting project that will revolutionize city design the way the LEED® rating system revolutionized building design. Currently being developed by Ecocity Builders and a host of partner organizations from around the world, IES will evaluate and judge new and existing cities’ progress towards becoming an ecocity.
- [Cinque Terre: an enchanted photo journey](https://svenworld.com/cinque-terre-an-enchanted-photo-journey/) - This April, after Eyjafjallajökull had thwarted a planned visit of an old friend in Spain and stranded us in my native Germany, my partner Deb and I spontaneously decided to take my dad's car to explore relatively nearby Italy instead. Our first stop on our impromptu tour was Cinque Terre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- [You may say I'm a dreamer...](https://svenworld.com/you-may-say-im-a-dreamer/) - Well, with a fair amount of blushing I've got to share this little piece about . . . me. After all, it's not every day you get compared to Orpheus, right? The Dreamers of San Francisco series: Sven Eberlein is Orpheus rising Since the article includes lyrics of two of my songs, I thought I'd
- [It is never too late to care](https://svenworld.com/it-is-never-too-late-to-care/) - Cosmic Spider Web, by Debra Baida The great thing about blogging is that you get to connect with kindred souls whose orbit would otherwise not intersect with yours in this short lifetime we have on earth. One such soul is Pam Bickell, who was one of the first folks to stop by here and who
- [Rediscovering Simplicity: The Cyclists of Italy](https://svenworld.com/rediscovering-simplicity-the-cyclists-of-italy/) - Whenever I travel to different countries and cities, one of the things I'm interested in is how locals move around in their daily lives. Call me a transportation glutton, but I'm a sucker for trains, boats, rickshaws, trams, buses, gondolas, back alleys, and sidewalks. Then, of course, there's the most sublime transit invention of them
- [Dahlia Lama - a mythical creature of flowering wisdom](https://svenworld.com/dahlia-lama-a-mythical-creature-of-flowering-wisdom/) - Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. Last Sunday Deb and I took our annual trip to the dahlia garden in SF's Golden Gate Park. There is something magical about it, something that takes me out of my head and into my heart. When I get into that space I
- [Dances on Walls: How flying women are making the planet cooler](https://svenworld.com/dances-on-walls-how-flying-women-are-making-the-planet-cooler/) - Last night, on our way to see some live music at a local cafe in San Francisco's Mission District, my friends and I were stopped in our tracks by an unusual looking Women's Building on 18th Street. This is saying something, as this building is far from ordinary in its normal state: wrapped in the
- [A Happy Home](https://svenworld.com/a-happy-home/) - The Fall issue of Yes! Magazine features an article I wrote entitled Resilient Ideas: A Hand-Built Home about a cob house built from scratch by Brian Liloia at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeastern Missouri. It's a pretty cool story about how to build your own home for a song, all with natural materials (mostly straw,
- [Drops of Water on the Soul](https://svenworld.com/drops-of-water-on-the-soul/) - I dug up this poem I wrote in my scratch book I don't know how many years ago. I think it's about consciousness. Or finding light in the darkness. Or something. Drops of water on the soul that vast and delirious ocean holding the key that doesn't fit into the keyhole of conceptualization A light
- [A Declaration of Interdependence](https://svenworld.com/a-declaration-of-interdependence/) - Independence is a big and important word in this country. A noble concept in and of itself, it reaches far and deep into the American psyche. The U.S.'s independence as a nation is supported by a rugged individualism among her people that has enabled many to do things that would otherwise be considered impossible. Accordingly,
- [Harvest Moon, Setting and Rising](https://svenworld.com/harvest-moon-setting-and-rising/) - photo by debra baida Woke up this morning to a spectacular Harvest Moon setting over San Francisco. At around the same time, my dear friend Paul landed in Kathmandu, where he is about to spend his fall semester sabbatical with his beautiful wife and three daughters. This is his post: Spectacular flight into Kathmandu, with
- [Circles](https://svenworld.com/circles/) - "I've been around since the beginning of humankind," said the old man, drawing a circle in the air with his gnarled fingers. "Tangled up in wars and deception, each time a new generation was born the hopes of the world rested on the children's innocence and honesty for a kinder tomorrow, until these children had
- [10/10/10: A Creek Comes Alive](https://svenworld.com/101010-a-creek-comes-alive/) - This morning I hopped on my bike, took the BART train to North Berkeley, and rode the Ohlone Greenway to participate in a 350 work party to restore and clean up Codornices Creek on the border of Albany and Berkeley. Organized by Friends of Five Creeks and Ecocity Builders, the task was to thin the
- [Swimming against the tide, smiling.](https://svenworld.com/swimming-against-the-tide-smiling/) - Everyday Sunshine - The Story of Fishbone A Documentary by Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler narrated by Laurence Fishburne currently screening in select theaters www.fishbonedocumentary.com Last night I went to a screening of Everyday Sunshine - The Story of Fishbone at The Roxie (yay to surviving and thriving independent theaters!!). Shown as part of the
- [Whatever I do, I'd like to allow for the possibility that I know nothing](https://svenworld.com/whatever-i-do-id-like-to-allow-for-the-possibility-that-i-know-nothing/) - In 1996, astronomers pointed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field telescope into a small part of the sky, right near the Big Dipper, that seemed utterly empty. Since this is a really high tech telescope and incredibly expensive to run, it wasn't just that a couple of guys decided to go "sky surfing" during their lunch
- [Soul Bridges to the Stars](https://svenworld.com/soul-bridges-to-the-stars/) - Elements & Evolution The Spiritual Landscape of Astrology Eric Meyers, M.A. soulvisionconsulting.com I've been following Eric Meyers' writings for years, and if ever there were an advertising campaign for "Think Big," I'd put his name on the billboards. While it's probably fair to say that astrologers as a whole aren't exactly the epitome of a
- [Sun, Sun, Sun, Here We Come!](https://svenworld.com/sun-sun-sun-here-we-come/) - SF Gate reports today that the Interior Department approved a plan to build Blythe Solar Power Project, the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world, in eastern Riverside County by the end of the year. On the same page of its business report there's an article talking about German clean-tech firms looking toward the
- [Being dead never felt so alive](https://svenworld.com/being-dead-never-felt-so-alive/) - Happy Dia de Los Muertos! My favorite holiday, honoring the dead and inviting us to have an open dialog with our own mortality, and perhaps live life just a bit more fully. I posted a piece entitled Let's Have Fun at a Death Party about this celebration in my neighborhood at Elephant Journal, so if
- [If you're reading this...](https://svenworld.com/if-youre-reading-this/) - ...you are probably on a computer. Or some sort of hand-held device. Smart phone. Pod. Pad. Berry. Tablet. Insert [catchy name of the next latest greatest cool and hip new gadget about to hit the market]. What the manufacturers of these shiny new objects fail to tell us is what goes into making them and
- [On a warm San Franciscan night...](https://svenworld.com/on-a-warm-san-franciscan-night/) - The last two days have been truly gorgeous in the City by the Bay. Warm, almost balmy November nights. Not completely unusual, but after a relatively cool summer and early fall, this has been an unexpected treat. Now I know that there are a lot of problems in this world and that life can be
- [The dam age is not yet done. Avatar needs help.](https://svenworld.com/the-dam-age-is-not-yet-done-avatar-needs-help/) - The Brazilian government is about to decide whether to construct Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, a massive project that would become the world's 3rd largest hydroelectric dam. As any large scale engineering project that is going to alter the natural environment and uproot indigenous and riverbank communities en masse,
- [SHOCKER!!! 11-year old wants NOT A THING for her birthday!](https://svenworld.com/shocker-11-year-old-wants-not-a-thing-for-her-birthday/) - Happy Black Friday, Allow me to introduce you to my friend Sylvie, who is spending this fall with her parents and two sisters in Kathmandu, where she celebrated her 11th birthday last week. Here's how she got there: We're taking our family back to South Asia for a Fall Semester Sabbatical! Ever since our 2007
- [A Mayor Breakthrough in Cancun](https://svenworld.com/a-mayor-breakthrough-in-cancun/) - I was asked to contribute to blogathons about the Climate Change Convention in Cancun for Tcktcktck.org and Daily Kos. Here are my thoughts and observations, not surprisingly with a focus on cities. This week in Cancun, governments and NGOs from around the world are taking another shot at solving the climate crisis after last year's
- [LocaPower to the People! - Cancun can because locals can](https://svenworld.com/locapower-to-the-people-cancun-can-because-locals-can/) - I don't know about you, but following all the different angles of negotiation at a conference as broad and multidimensional as the UNFCCC makes my head spin. I understand that dealing with a complex problem like climate change that literally affects every nation and every individual on earth offers no simple solutions, but the pitfall
- [Totally eclipsed](https://svenworld.com/totally-eclipsed/) - Wow, this was really amazing! In fact, it still is. I caught these pics of tonight's lunar eclipse right before the mighty fog rolled in right above my house. It was really magical, almost as if the fog and the earth were coordinating their obscuring efforts, leaving so much room for the imagination. Really, when
- [2010: Marveling at things small and large](https://svenworld.com/2010-marveling-at-things-small-and-large/) - It's the end of the year, a time when many of us piece together the perspectives gained throughout the seasonal cycle into one continuous story. This is a collage, an attempt not only at making sense of my own journey (most photos link to posts I wrote this year) but at bridging the always beckoning
- [Nothing personal, but... Bye Bye J.P. Morgan Chase](https://svenworld.com/nothing-personal-but-bye-bye-j-p-morgan-chase/) - Yesterday morning I walked down the street to the building with the big fat neon CHASE signs that replaced the modest old WaMu writing almost exactly two years ago, and did something that felt sooo good: I closed my account. Not only that, I found a friendly bank right up the street with a personable
- [Oh-Phiuchus! Can't Astrologers and Astronomers get along?](https://svenworld.com/oh-phiuchus-cant-astrologers-and-astronomers-get-along/) - The emails came in immediately. “What, I’m no longer a Sadge?,” one friend inquired. My facebook wall lit up with cries for help ranging from the slightly perplexed “what's up with the new zodiac sign dates” to the borderline despairing “Sven, can you help make sense of this new zodiac calendar? I'm hearing so many
- [How sitting in windows is making the planet cooler](https://svenworld.com/how-sitting-in-windows-is-making-the-planet-cooler/) - In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made a call to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. While I understand that this is a well-intentioned challenge to his fellow American citizens to get with it in a quickly changing world economy, I can't help but wonder whether stepping
- [Movement in the Bottoms: Operation Canned Spinach!](https://svenworld.com/movement-in-the-bottoms-operation-canned-spinach/) - Starting a grassroots urban farm with little means on a small plot of industrial wasteland with soil so toxic you can't put any seeds in the ground is no small feat. However, for a small African American community in the Village Bottoms district of West Oakland, being able to feed themselves after decades of urban
- [Internet Killed the Video Store](https://svenworld.com/internet-killed-the-video-store/) - One of the great joys of living in my Mission neighborhood in San Francisco is that I've gotten to know many of the local business owners over the years. A lot of them live right around the corner from me, and it's not unusual to bump into them while getting a coffee or a burrito,
- [Ecocities Illustrated: The Art of Richard Register](https://svenworld.com/ecocities-illustrated-the-art-of-richard-register/) - I truly believe that art and creativity must play a vital role in inspiring the ecological changes we need to see in this world. 350's Earth Art project goes to the very core of that, and it's been amazing to see how powerfully this artistic approach to climate change has resonated around the world. And
- [Mouthwatering Cupcakes for Choice](https://svenworld.com/mouthwatering-cupcakes-for-choice/) - Happy International Women's Day 2011 On Sunday, a rather sweet gathering occurred on the sidewalk down the street from me. I had heard about Cupcakes for Choice — a benefit for Planned Parenthood — from a friend, but it wasn't until I put on my walking shoes and sauntered through my drizzly neighborhood that I
- ["Nuclear? What nuclear?" Richard Register on why we don't need all that power in the first place](https://svenworld.com/nuclear-what-nuclear-richard-register-on-why-we-dont-need-all-that-power-in-the-first-place/) - Let's face it: The way our modern oh-so-advanced society is using energy is like pouring water into a bucket with holes in it. The whole fight about which energy source is the meanest, leanest and cleanest is like we're all standing around that bucket with our big hoses, shooting more water at the rapidly draining
- [Leading German climate scientist on Fukushima: "A new basis of our coexistence is needed"](https://svenworld.com/leading-german-climate-scientist-on-fukushima-a-new-basis-of-our-coexistence-is-needed/) - In a just published interview under the title "We Are Looting the Past and Future to Feed the Present" with German news magazine Der Spiegel, leading German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber puts the kibosh on the false choice between nuclear power and fossil fuels. Discussing the German government's plans to temporarily shut down seven
- [UN report: Cities are Climate Change battleground](https://svenworld.com/un-report-cities-are-climate-change-battleground/) - Not that this is news we didn't already know or have never heard about, but from the UN's Global Report on Human Settlements 2011 - Cities and Climate Change comes this story published on BBC news online: UN report: Cities ignore climate change at their peril Here's the basic premise: Urban areas are set to
- [Ascension of John Long](https://svenworld.com/ascension-of-john-long/) - I've been wanting to post this video by my old buddy Phil Long for a while. It documents the process of making an incredible leather mosaic tribute to his father who was murdered by pirates off the coast of Mexico while attempting to return to Ireland in a boat he had built. It's a couple
- [The Irrational Fear of Nukes - A German Perspective](https://svenworld.com/the-irrational-fear-of-nukes-a-german-perspective/) - As the rescue efforts at the Fukushima plant continue to stumble and fumble along, the discussion about nuclear energy has been in full swing around the globe. The week after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Swiss government suspended plans to replace and build new nuclear plants pending a safety review. In Germany, Chancellor
- [Seeds for Creative Change: Tuber Creations relaunches](https://svenworld.com/seeds-for-creative-change-tuber-creations-relaunches/) - Creative portal Tuber Creations takes a plunge into deeper waters No matter where you stand on the state of the planet, there seems to be a consensus that things cannot go on the way they have been. We humans are creatures of habit, and some habits, like a good rhythm, are worth keeping. But there's
- [Amsterdam Biking Paradise Didn't Happen Overnight](https://svenworld.com/amsterdam-biking-paradise-didnt-happen-overnight/) - I went to a very interesting and inspiring presentation last week at San Francisco's Public Library. The name of the event was Lessons from Amsterdam: How San Francisco Can Bicycle toward Greatness, and the three people who spoke were: Bart van Bolhuis, The Netherlands Consulate General in San Francisco David Chiu, President of the San
- [German Town Shows How to Achieve Nuclear Free Future](https://svenworld.com/german-town-shows-how-to-achieve-nuclear-free-future/) - Yesterday I was invited by friends (thanks Kat & Deidre) to attend the ceremony for the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize at the War Memorial in San Francisco. All 6 recipients were simply amazing people from all across the globe with inspiring stories in the fight to protect their local ecosystems from mindless destruction wrought by
- [USPS Releases Go Green Stamp (An Ode to the Letter)](https://svenworld.com/usps-releases-go-green-stamp-an-ode-to-the-letter/) - Last week the US Postal Service released its newest stamp series, Go Green. It's a series of 16 stamps designed by Eli Noyes, a 68-year old farmers' market going, veggie growing, composting San Francisco artist and designer. While the word "green" has become a bit of a cliche in recent years and suffered a lot
- [A Bike Ride in Orange](https://svenworld.com/a-bike-ride-in-orange/) - A few weeks ago I went to a presentation entitled Lessons from Amsterdam: How San Francisco Can Bicycle toward Greatness that featured President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors David Chiu and Executive Director of the SF Bicycle Coalition Leah Shahum, who had both just returned from respective bicycle fact-finding trips to Amsterdam, as
- [Imagine There's No Cars in the Streets](https://svenworld.com/imagine-theres-no-cars-in-the-streets/) - It isn't hard to do! This year's third Sunday Streets, the City of San Francisco's closing off stretches of a neighborhood’s streets to automobile traffic, and opening them to pedestrians, bicyclists, and activities for several hours on a predetermined Sunday, happened last weekend. While the series of events was met by healthy skepticism — especially
- [Street Art and its Role in Creating Ecocity Culture](https://svenworld.com/street-art-and-its-role-in-creating-ecocity-culture/) - ...is the title of a presentation I will give at the upcoming Ecocity World Summit August 22-26 in Montréal, Canada. I just found out a few days ago that my proposal got accepted, and so now I've got to figure out how to squeeze everything there is to say on the topic into a 15
- [You Can Ride Your Bike to Work? Really?? WTF!](https://svenworld.com/you-can-ride-your-bike-to-work-really-wtf/) - Yesterday, as part of National Bike Month, the 17th annual Bike to Work Day was observed and put into action all over the Bay Area. In San Francisco, an unprecedented number of local political and business leaders joined tens of thousands of commuters flocking from all corners of the city to participate in SF's biggest
- [How Hot Soup is Making the Planet Cooler](https://svenworld.com/how-hot-soup-is-making-the-planet-cooler/) - For the past three months, my daily walk down the street has been seasoned by a small but quite lovely addition to the neighborhood. Whenever I'd cross the street at Valencia and 21st, a friendly, almost fairy-like voice would ring from around the corner, beckoning me with a cherubic "Hello Sir, would you like to
- [Pedal Power to the Music People!](https://svenworld.com/pedal-power-to-the-music-people/) - A couple of days ago the 6th annual Bicycle Music Festival, the largest 100% bicycle-powered music festival in the world, took place in San Francisco. Starting at Old Cabin Meadow in Golden Gate Park, the event then went mobile with a Live on Bike performance ride from Golden Gate Park to Potrero Hill, with the
- [If Music Ruled the World...](https://svenworld.com/if-music-ruled-the-world/) - Happy Solstice, everyone! The longest, most sunlight-filled day in the Northern Hemisphere feels like a good occasion to talk about visions. Visions by nature are somewhere in the distance, perhaps reachable, perhaps not. Where we stand right now is the result of past visions, some of them good, some of them bad, much of it
- [Environmental Artist Blacklisted by Canadian Government. You Can Help Turn the Tables.](https://svenworld.com/environmental-artist-blacklisted-by-canadian-government-you-can-help-turn-the-tables/) - “Who was the idiot who approved an art show by that woman, Franke James?” Memorable words from one of Canada’s top officials on hearing that the Canadian Embassy in Croatia had offered support for Franke’s art show. From Dear Prime Minister, by Franke James Well, you'd think the government of a major western democracy would
- [Freiburg, Germany: City of the Future. Part I: Keeping What Works](https://svenworld.com/freiburg-germany-city-of-the-future-part-i-keeping-what-works/) - This summer I got to spend a few days in Freiburg, a city of 220,000 at the edge of the black forest in the south-western corner of Germany, near the French border. While the reason for traveling to my native Germany was in large part to visit family and friends, the trip to Freiburg had
- [Just some quick food porn from Montreal](https://svenworld.com/just-some-quick-food-porn-from-montreal/) - I've been spending the last few days at the Ecocity World Summit in Montreal. It's been a truly fantastic conference with amazing speakers and superb hosts. There are over 1000 attendees and it's been a lively event. Inspiring talks about everything from how the City of Christchurch, NZ is being rebuilt and designed as an
- [What if God is a Mushroom? (A magical mystery fungal photo tour)](https://svenworld.com/what-if-god-is-a-mushroom-a-magical-mystery-fungal-photo-tour/) - On a recent reunion trip to Schroon Lake in Northern New York, my friends and I took a day hike along the northern end of the lake toward Pharaoh Lake. I don't know if it was just that time of year or if the moist post-hurricane Irene setting had anything to do with it, but
- [San Francisco Moves the Planet](https://svenworld.com/san-francisco-moves-the-planet/) - Yesterday people across the globe came out to make their voices heard about our collective need to trim down fossil fuel consumption. There are amazing and uplifting photos posted from every corner of the planet on the Moving Planet site. Living in San Francisco, I didn't want to miss out on what our creative Bay
- [Slow the Money Down!](https://svenworld.com/slow-the-money-down/) - Slow Money 3rd National Gathering, October 12-14, Fort Mason, San Francisco One of the greatest things that has come out of OccupyWallStreet so far is that everyone is beginning to talk and think about what exactly it is that could be done to change the predicament we're in. The problem is that our whole money/trade/investment
- [Where the Streets Have No Lanes (OccupyStreet)](https://svenworld.com/where-the-streets-have-no-lanes-occupystreet/) - Yesterday, Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood. After making an early stop in May and traveling through different San Francisco neighborhoods all summer long, this glorious celebration of streets without motorized traffic came back for its season finale to The Mission District. On a picture-perfect autumn afternoon the diverse and irreverent community I've been calling
- [Death never felt so full of life](https://svenworld.com/death-never-felt-so-full-of-life/) - “Let’s have fun at a death party” is probably not the most commonly uttered combination of words in the English language. There’s something a bit too irreverent and dangerously inappropriate about the image, like a friendly slap on fearsome Lord Voldemort’s back, affectionately calling He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named “Voldy.” Death and celebration don’t usually get to tango in
- [The Watsonville Files: Everyone is trapped in a vicious cycle of failed immigration and farm policy](https://svenworld.com/the-watsonville-files-everyone-is-trapped-in-a-vicious-cycle-of-failed-immigration-and-farm-policy/) - There are tens of thousands of children and young people in America who came to the United States as babies of parents who worked in the fields, or on construction sites, or in hotels or restaurants. These kids have grown up as Americans, they are culturally American, and they have American dreams, but they have
- [HOT STUFF! From Durban to Rio - Introducing International Ecocity Framework & Standards](https://svenworld.com/hot-stuff-from-durban-to-rio-introducing-international-ecocity-framework-standards/) - After largely ignoring the role of cities and local governments at its first 15 climate conferences, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took a huge step at COP16 in Cancun when the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) for the first time in history officially adopted local governments as "governmental stakeholders". What this
- [Change](https://svenworld.com/change/) - Some thoughts on impermanence. I guess some would call it a poem... Change what there is may not be there and what may come has always been what is a rock is tomorrow’s sand your deepest wish buried in your hand the seed you sow may not become the plant envisioned but it will find
- [If the elevator didn’t stop...](https://svenworld.com/if-the-elevator-didnt-stop/) - another new poem to challenge old assumptions... If the elevator didn’t stop you’d go straight to heaven that is assuming heaven is at the top an idea we feed with a hungry mind until the high rise made of paper leaves is strewn in the wind like a million little snow flakes
- [Occupying the Future: Benefit Corporations now opening shop in NY, six other states](https://svenworld.com/occupying-the-future-benefit-corporations-now-opening-shop-in-ny-six-other-states/) - At midnight last night, New York became the 7th state to pass into law legislation that allows the formation of a new and different type of corporation, one that is required to create benefit for society as well as shareholders: The Benefit Corporation. I heard about this from my friend Barb, whose husband's company will
- [How to start your own renewable energy company...](https://svenworld.com/how-to-start-your-own-renewable-energy-company/) - This month's issue of Resurgence Magazine features The Reluctant Rebels, an article I wrote based on my visit last summer with 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Ursula Sladek in the small town of Schönau in the Black Forest region of Germany. It's quite a remarkable story of a small community taking matters into their own
- [The Start of a Revolution](https://svenworld.com/the-start-of-a-revolution/) - January 3, 2012: California becomes the sixth state to adopt law that allows the formation of corporations whose main purpose isn’t to make money. A day at the Secretary of State's office in Sacramento, where California's first twelve businesses filed to operate as benefit corporations. California Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Sacramento's Capitol Park, only a
- [Carless in Vancouver, Part 1: Boots on the Ground](https://svenworld.com/carless-in-vancouver-part-1-boots-on-the-ground/) - A few of days ago I arrived in Vancouver, B.C. for a week of urban planning and playing. On the official schedule are presentations about leading practices in resilient urban systems, a workshop to assess the City of Vancouver's rating in the International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS) initiative, a brainstorming session to redesign the
- [Carless in Vancouver, Part 2: Going for the high-hanging fruit](https://svenworld.com/carless-in-vancouver-part-2-going-for-the-high-hanging-fruit/) - This is Part 2 of my trip last week to Vancouver, B.C. to meet up and exchange ideas with some of the leading thinkers in sustainable urban design and planning. (Carless in Vancouver, Part 1: Boots on the Ground described the first two days commuting between my Mount Pleasant neighborhood digs and the convention center
- [Carless in Vancouver, Part 3: Follow the Flow](https://svenworld.com/carless-in-vancouver-part-3-follow-the-flow/) - Welcome to the third and final (I promise) installment of my trip last week to Vancouver, B.C., an attempt to fit a series of ecocity workshops with all kinds of sustainable design and planning concepts into a visual real life, on the ground, context. Here's what happened so far: Carless in Vancouver, Part 1: Boots
- ["You just spent a gallon of gas to get a gallon of milk."](https://svenworld.com/you-just-spent-a-gallon-of-gas-to-get-a-gallon-of-milk/) - This innocuous-sounding quote from the recent SF Chronicle article Transportation boosts cost of living in suburbs very poignantly describes not only the structural problems of suburban life but gets to the core of the absurdity and unsustainability of our modern fossil-fueled lives. It's from Scott Bernstein, President of Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology, whose organization
- [Mr. Sven goes to the UN](https://svenworld.com/mr-sven-goes-to-the-un/) - I'm going to New York this week for the first round of 'informal-informal' negotiations on the zero draft of the Rio+20 outcome document in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio, June 20-22. What this means is that there will be a bunch of government and NGO stakeholders from all
- [Informal-Informal in New York](https://svenworld.com/informal-informal-in-new-york/) - This week a small but poised Ecocity Builders delegation including Kirstin Miller, Naomi Grunditz and myself got to spend time at UN Headquarters in New York to witness the first round of ‘Informal-Informal’ negotiations on the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20. As the issue of
- [Six extraordinary people who are giving voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless](https://svenworld.com/six-extraordinary-people-who-are-giving-voice-to-the-voiceless-and-hope-to-the-hopeless/) - The 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients: photo courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize Africa: Ikal Angelei, Kenya Asia: Ma Jun, China Europe: Evgenia Chirikova, Russia Islands & Island Nations: Edwin Gariguez, Philippines North America: Caroline Cannon, USA South & Central America: Sofia Gatica, Argentina As some of you may know, last year I received a last-minute fluke
- [We're planning the future here!](https://svenworld.com/were-planning-the-future-here/) - File this in the category of occupying-the-land-with-things-that-were-meant-to-be-on-it-in-the-first-place. As some of you may have heard, a couple of days ago a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists took over the Gill Tract, 10 acres of the last remaining Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. Dubbed Occupy the Farm, these
- [As single-use plastic goes so goes the planet - a lunchboxy photo essay](https://svenworld.com/as-single-use-plastic-goes-so-goes-the-planet/) - Last week I wrote an article about how my city — San Francisco — has reached a stunning 78% waste diversion rate and is on the way to its stated goal of zero waste in 2020. It describes the city's history of dealing with waste, from volunteer-run community recycling centers dating back to the first
- [Do I Need This?](https://svenworld.com/do-i-need-this/) - ...is the question I ask myself all the time. Living in times in which it often seems harder to avoid new stuff than to accumulate it, I ask this question not just for the sake of a planet drowning in junk but for my own sanity. And it's not just physical things I get overwhelmed
- [Mariquitas y El Capitan: Of things small and large](https://svenworld.com/mariquitas-y-el-capitan-of-things-small-and-large/) - When you're living in a city it's easy to get caught up in human creations. Almost everything I see and touch all day has been concocted by humans -- the streets, the buildings, the machine I'm typing these words on. Even most things us city folk associate with nature -- our parks, gardens, and greenbelts
- [A 21st century small town vibe in the big city](https://svenworld.com/a-21st-century-small-town-vibe-in-the-big-city/) - A couple of months ago I visited three cohousing communities in the East Bay for an assignment I was doing for Yes! Magazine. The article just appeared in their 2012 summer issue which can be read here: Life Is Easier With Friends Next Door Feeling a need for community? Cohousing can provide affordable space and
- [Liberating Streets: Of bubbles, hobby horses, and tumbling towers](https://svenworld.com/liberating-streets-of-bubbles-hobby-horses-and-tumbling-towers/) - Today Sunday Streets returned to my neighborhood in San Francisco's Mission District. Sunday Streets is an event organized by the City of San Francisco, MTA, and Livable City that creates a large, temporary, public space by closing off stretches of a neighborhood’s streets to automobile traffic, and opening them to pedestrians, bicyclists, and activities. Or
- [A small favor for a big cause [@PlanetEarth]](https://svenworld.com/a-small-favor-for-a-big-cause-planetearth/) - Ecocity Builders and the United Nations NGO Major Group's proposal 'Global Standards of Sustainability for Cities' has advanced to the final round of the Rio+20 Dialogues. Please support us so that the proposal can be delivered directly to Heads of State at Rio+20. Everyone can vote directly from the link. 1. Go to http://vote.riodialogues.org 2.
- ["What you call need, I call suffering."](https://svenworld.com/what-you-call-need-i-call-suffering/) - By now you may have heard about the Yoga instructor who got fired for telling a Facebook employee to stop using her cell phone during one of the weekly classes she was teaching on the company's campus. No, this is not an urban myth, although it sure sounds like it. For years, yoga instructor Alice
- [After watching this movie, that plastic fork will never look the same again](https://svenworld.com/after-watching-this-movie-that-plastic-fork-will-never-look-the-same-again/) - Chris Jordan, the photographer whose heartbreaking photo series Midway: Message from the Gyre showed the dead bodies of seabirds on remote Midway Island in the middle of the Pacific filled with plastic junk from bottle caps to single use spoons, has just successfully raised $100,000 through a kickstarter campaign that will enable him and his
- [Solar airplane completes 4,000-mile journey from Switzerland to Morocco, and back](https://svenworld.com/solar-airplane-completes-4000-mile-journey-from-switzerland-to-morocco-and-back/) - This is the kind of news that gives me hope... Solar Powered Airplane Makes First Intercontinental Round-trip Flight A unique airplane has just completed a 6,000 km journey, making the first solar-powered intercontinental round-trip air journey. Traveling between Europe and Africa, the Solar Impulse experimental solar airplane landed in Payerne, Switzerland at 08:30 pm local
- [Dear Conservatives: The train is leaving the station. You can hop on or stay cursing at the platform](https://svenworld.com/dear-conservatives-the-train-is-leaving-the-station-you-can-hop-on-or-stay-cursing-at-the-platform/) - Dear Conservatives, I'm writing you today to let you know that the train to the future is about to leave the station and a majority of Americans are already on it, seats taken and luggage safely stored away. Most folks were quite happy to book their ticket early for Destination Sustainable Planet with stops along
- [Soil is the Solution, or the most important environmental story I'll ever write](https://svenworld.com/climate-change-sos-soil-is-the-solution-or-the-most-important-environmental-story-ill-ever-write/) - I first published this post as part of the the Climate Change SOS Blogathon on Daily Kos, featuring a lot of prominent thinkers in the climate movement like Bill McKibben, Michael Mann, and Richard Heinberg. It was also republished on the Post Carbon Institute's Energy Bulletin. Sven, "Soil is the Solution" might be the most
- [Dahlia Lama, revisited](https://svenworld.com/dahlia-lama-revisited/) - Two years ago today, I posted my first Dahlia Lama photo essay, after Deb and I returned from our annual visit to the Dahlia Garden in Golden Gate Park. This year the dahlias seemed even more magical and divine than usual that I couldn't help but take a few more shots and let my soul
- [Urban Prototyping: Magical Pieces of the Future](https://svenworld.com/urban-prototyping-magical-pieces-of-the-future/) - Living in San Francisco, I've come to appreciate and almost expect my fellow residents' relentless drive for innovative use of urban spaces, to redefine what it means to live and interact with each other. Caused by an acute awareness of the role our wasteful western habits and a lack of imagination have played in creating
- [GMO OMG WTF are we eating?!?!](https://svenworld.com/gmo-omg-wtf-are-we-eating/) - So there's a proposition — Proposition 37 — on the ballot in California that would make the state the first in the nation to require the labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). When you turn on the TV here in the Golden State, you'd think these extra few words on our instant
- [Happy Dia de los Muertos](https://svenworld.com/happy-dia-de-los-muertos/) - Note: I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it's always a fun re-post. Excited to pay my tributes to the ancestors and those who have passed tonight. Death never felt so alive! “Let’s have fun at a death party” is probably not the most commonly uttered combination of words in the English language.
- [My Interview with Bill McKibben](https://svenworld.com/my-interview-with-bill-mckibben-the-math-we-do-as-thinking-beings-to-make-our-planet-feel-better/) - Last Saturday I found myself sitting across the table from Bill McKibben on the outdoor patio of a San Francisco pub, interviewing him about the modern day Merry Pranksters-style Do The Math bus tour he is currently on, and chatting with him and his local 350.org crew about everything from meteors and space shuttles to
- [200 — or why I (still) love to blog](https://svenworld.com/200-or-why-i-love-to-blog/) - That's the number of posts I've written here on this little blog o' mine. I don't often do much housekeeping because I'm so focused on the themes I'm writing about, but when I saw that "199" pop up on my dashboard after I posted my interview with Bill McKibben the other day, I thought this
- [Jesus wasn't born on Christmas and a frog won't stay in boiling water. It's not the end of the world.](https://svenworld.com/jesus-wasnt-born-on-christmas-and-a-frog-wont-stay-in-boiling-water-its-not-the-end-of-the-world/) - Now that December 21st, 2012 has come and gone and we're all still here, there are a few different paths we can take in processing the "event." 1. Go about business as usual as if nothing happened. 2. Make fun of anyone who took the end of the Mayan calendar literally. 3. Acknowledge that the
- [The Seeds They Are A-Changin'](https://svenworld.com/the-seeds-they-are-a-changin/) - The Matador Travel Network just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed trading business and how it relates to California's narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would have required food products made from plants or animals with genetically modified organisms (GMO) to be labelled as such. My uncle, Wolfgang Ziegler, the last
- [Biking the train to the swap meet, or life in a carbon-proportionate world](https://svenworld.com/biking-the-train-to-the-swap-meet-or-life-in-a-carbon-proportionate-world/) - About a month ago I got a snapshot of what it might be like to live in a less fossil-fueled and growth-driven world. I had been working on an assignment for Shareable Magazine on How to Bring Transition Town-style Sharing into your Community and in the process contacted transition network groups across the globe to
- [Talking trash with PBS NewsHour](https://svenworld.com/talking-trash-with-pbs-newshour/) - A few weeks ago my partner-in-muse Deb and I welcomed Spencer Michels and his crew from the PBS NewsHour to our house. To be more specific, to our kitchen. The reason we got to scramble eggs in front of a television camera was that they were doing a segment about San Francisco's nation-leading composting program
- [Moving forward on climate!](https://svenworld.com/from-sea-to-shining-sea-bay-area-moving-forward-on-climate/) - On Sunday I went to the Forward on Climate rally in San Francisco to show my support for meaningful action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions and let President Obama, the fossil fuel industry, and all the other powers-that-be know that building another pipeline is not the way to address our collective addiction to oil As
- [Sharing for Profit - I'm not Buying it Anymore](https://svenworld.com/sharing-for-profit-im-not-buying-it-anymore/) - Reading about The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy in Forbes Magazine, I get a strange feeling in my belly. There is, on one hand, the automatic delight at seeing the word "share" so prominently featured, as if it were walking down the red carpet on the way to accepting its Oscar, signaling to the
- [The Good Food Revolution Goes Vertical](https://svenworld.com/the-good-food-revolution-goes-vertical/) - This is a story about something that is right in this world. It's a story of inspiration and real world solutions, a down to earth celebration of the most basic yet profound connection we have to the planet that sustains us — its soil and crops. It's also a simple appeal for support of a
- [HOLY SPOKES!!!!! London commits £1 BILLION to new bicycle infrastructure.](https://svenworld.com/holy-spokes-london-commits-1-billion-to-new-bicycle-infrastructure/) - From the Department of Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, last week the city of London announced one of the largest cycling transportation development budgets in the history of the bicycle, qualifying it as one of the world’s largest public works projects. And here I thought we're doing quite well in my city of
- [Eco triptych: Compost giveaway, corporate breakaway, and climate rideaway, in a day around the bay](https://svenworld.com/eco-triptych-compost-giveaway-corporate-breakaway-and-climate-rideaway-in-a-day-around-the-bay/) - Last Saturday was one of those days on the calendar that seems to magically attract all the cool happenings around town. Usually with multiple invitations on the same day you end up having to make some tough choices, but this time all the different events connected perfectly, not just timing-wise, but thematically. In fact, there
- [What's the matter with "The Google Bus?"](https://svenworld.com/whats-the-matter-with-the-google-bus/) - Yesterday I went to a panel discussion entitled A Story of Shuttles at SPUR, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. For those of you not living in SF (and the Bay Area), what's come to be known as "The Google Bus" is a whole fleet of privately run corporate limousine buses that are
- [San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Vote Tomorrow on Divesting $500 million from Fossil Fuels](https://svenworld.com/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-to-vote-tomorrow-on-divesting-500-million-from-fossil-fuels/) - Tomorrow, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is going to vote on whether or not to urge the city’s retirement board to divest over half a billion dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This is a landmark resolution to divest the city's pension fund -- one of the largest pools of money the city holds
- [San Francisco Board of Supervisors UNANIMOUSLY Passes Resolution to Divest from Fossil Fuel](https://svenworld.com/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-unanimously-passes-resolution-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel/) - Wow, so it did happen! This just in: San Francisco Board of Supervisors Unanimously Pass Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution urging the city’s retirement system to divest over $583 million from the fossil fuel industry SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors (SFERS) passed a unanimous resolution this afternoon calling on the San Francisco
- [Don't just count the carbon, BIKE THE MATH!](https://svenworld.com/dont-just-count-the-carbon-bike-the-math/) - If you're in the Bay Area and want to do something exciting, fun, and meaningful to voice your concerns about climate change and the fossil fuel industry's long-term business plan, here it is... (and if not, please help spread the word) Bike the Math to Chevron's shareholders at their Annual General Meeting in San Ramon.
- [We're taking it to Chevron!](https://svenworld.com/were-taking-it-to-chevron/) - Tomorrow bright and early a bunch of Bay Area cyclists and I are going to bike the math of climate change to Chevron's shareholders and call for the company to be a part of the renewable energy future rather than be the unsustainable, fossil foolish, retro backwards 20th century dinosaurs they are right now. I
- [Chevron touts big oil profits = past. Cyclists generate people power = future. Bike the Math rocks!](https://svenworld.com/chevron-touts-big-oil-profits-past-cyclists-generate-people-power-future-bike-the-math-rocks/) - Well, there couldn't be a better symbolism of yesterday's shareholder meeting at Chevron's San Ramon headquarters than today's headliner in the business section of the San Jose Mercury News: a bunch of inspired cyclists biking the math of climate change to the oil giant's front gate, sitting right on top of the article about the
- [The end of the world as we know it: New York City to compost food scraps](https://svenworld.com/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-new-york-city-to-compost-food-scraps/) - If you thought bike sharing was going to be the definitive end of the world for New York's old guard elite, wait till they get their fingers on Mayor Bloomberg's plan to require food composting in NYC. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike
- ["Real Mormons Love Everyone!" - SF Gay Pride 2013, Photo Feast](https://svenworld.com/real-mormons-love-everyone-sf-gay-pride-2013-photo-feast/) - You know you've come a long way in the fight for equality when the people you come across at the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco are these guys. On the right is Mitch Mayne, one of the driving forces behind reconciling Mormons with the LGBT community post Prop 8. Aside from being a really
- [A Declaration of INTERdependence](https://svenworld.com/a-declaration-of-interdependence-revisited/) - Independence is a big and important word in American history and culture. A noble concept in and of itself, it reaches far and deep into the country's mythology and its people's collective psyche. The U.S.'s independence as a nation is rooted in the rugged individualism among its citizens, a way of life that has been
- ["They're making art out of recycled crap!"](https://svenworld.com/theyre-making-art-out-of-recycled-crap/) - The Art of Recology: The Artist in Residence Program 1990-2013 San Francisco Airport Museum, March – October 2013 United Terminal 3 (exhibition viewable by ticketed passengers) This exhibition presents over one-hundred pieces made by forty-five artists during their residencies at Recology. All of the works on display were made in the art studio at the
- [The bio I never planned to write...](https://svenworld.com/the-bio-i-never-planned-to-write/) - In 2009, after 13 years of wordsmithing and playing in a rock & roll band accompanied by a series of eclectic day jobs, I set out to be a freelance journalist with the broader vision of inspiring people to be more creative and caring stewards of this little round ball we all find ourselves on.
- [Lessons for building an ecocity culture](https://svenworld.com/lessons-for-building-an-ecocity-culture/) - This article was originally published at Matador Network. Note: I added a few more links & photos. Photo: Jean-Dominique Billaud Quick: Name a few cities that come to mind when you think of France... Paris? Bien sûr, but you can do better than that. Cannes? Mais oui, you've been reading the entertainment pages. Marseille? Bordeaux?
- [Sunday Streets SF: Love me Tenderloin Edition](https://svenworld.com/sunday-streets-sf-love-me-tenderloin-edition/) - Two weekends ago, San Francisco's migrating street party known as Sunday Streets found itself a warm spot right smack in the middle of the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. It was, as always, as much a celebration of human-on-human contact as it was human-on-bubbles. Small ones... and large ones... With about 20 city blocks closed to automobile
- [Biking the Solar Roofs of Southern Germany, to See the Change You Wish to Be](https://svenworld.com/biking-the-solar-roofs-of-southern-germany-to-see-the-change-you-wish-to-be/) - My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South Germany, not far from the Swiss and Austrian borders. It's a long story of how they settled in the foothills of the Alps and I in the hills of San Francisco, but for the last decade
- [Spanish Moss: Music Meets Mobilization](https://svenworld.com/spanish-moss-music-meets-mobilization/) - After my article about putting the Heat on Chevron this summer got published this weekend in Yes Magazine and Common Dreams, I got a Facebook message from Christopher Templeton, a Vermont-based musician who turned me on to a tune called Spanish Moss he wrote about the madness of overconsumption and corporate greed that has got
- [The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes Taught These Indian Villagers](https://svenworld.com/the-dark-side-of-consumerism-what-landfills-and-nursing-homes-taught-these-indian-villagers/) - Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects—and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Here’s what they thought of the dark side of Western lifestyles. Nomadic picnic, Khardung village, Ladakh, India. (Photo: Prabhu B Doss / Flickr) This article was originally published in YES! Magazine, based
- [Is Google making the world wiser?](https://svenworld.com/is-google-making-the-world-wiser/) - Just in time for the unfurling of Google's mysterious barge, a 50-foot-tall, 250-foot-long shipping container structure that looks to be a sort of floating technology theme park, I thought I'd post some excerpts from a fascinating dialog this summer between several Google employees about their differing worldviews. The full discussion is posted here through the
- [Pope Francis: "Thou shalt not frack!"](https://svenworld.com/pope-francis-thou-shalt-not-frack/) - Pope Francis holding up anti-fracking t-shirts following a meeting with a group of Argentinian environmental activists to discuss water and fracking issues. The shirts read “No To Fracking” and “Water Is More Precious Than Gold.” Meet the Newest Anti-Fracking Activist: Pope Francis. I thought it's worth a shoutout when the guy with a direct line
- [President Obama comes to San Francisco Jazz Center, Climate Activists sing him a song](https://svenworld.com/president-obama-comes-to-san-francisco-atm-climate-activists-sing-him-a-song/) - President Obama came to San Francisco today for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the SFJazz Center - and a couple hundred of climate activists welcomed him in their own creative way, by singing him sweet songs. Even though we didn't get to see him outside his limo, he seemed to have noticed as several
- [A solstice message from ancient roots](https://svenworld.com/a-solstice-message-from-ancient-roots/) - It is quite puzzling that cultures across much of the northern hemisphere have chosen the season when the earth's tilt provides for much darkness and quiet as the time to be out and about, shopping for gifts, frequently tripping over each other in the pursuit of the last minute deal. Wouldn't it be more intuitive,
- [The Google Shuttle Effect on San Francisco](https://svenworld.com/the-google-shuttle-effect-on-san-francisco/) - Just wanted to link to a previously unpublished but oft-quoted study in the discussion about the tech shuttles' impact on San Francisco (with the author's permission) and write a few words about a policy committee meeting of the City & County of San Francisco's Commission on the Environment I went to last night, to decide
- [The 6 words that summarize why American-style bare-knuckle capitalism is doomed](https://svenworld.com/the-6-words-that-summarize-why-american-style-bare-knuckle-capitalism-is-doomed/) - This is not from The Onion, but from yesterday's business section of the San Francisco Chronicle: I'm trying to find the right analogy to wrap my mind around this head-slapping double-whopper of hamster-wheelin' futility. My geography professor once coined the expression "We celebrate what we obliterate" for when humans do things like paving over a
- [Has information technology reached the point of being mostly empty calories?](https://svenworld.com/information-technology-empty-calories/) - A few weeks ago I wrote an article about our relationship with information technology for the Matador Network that I thought would be worth sharing here. I find that there is a bit of a taboo we all impose on ourselves when it comes to looking at the use of digital media and endless gadgets
- [I went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of pipeline truth](https://svenworld.com/i-went-down-to-the-demonstration-to-get-my-fair-share-of-pipeline-truth/) - Rally against Keystone XL pipeline outside the US State Department Office at 1 Market St. in San Francisco, February 3rd, 2014. Yesterday saw an unprecedented mobilization against Keystone XL, the proposed pipeline that would open the flood gates for the most carbon-polluting oil on the planet and further legitimize humankind's unbridled addiction to the climate-wrecking
- [On the road to Cairo, Casablanca, and Medellín, Ecocitizen World Map in hand](https://svenworld.com/on-the-road-to-cairo-casablanca-and-medellin-ecocitizen-world-map-in-hand/) - Hola! Bonjour! As-salam alaykom! Hello! It's been a busy four months since I went into woodshed mode to help create the Ecocitizen World Map Project, a portal where citizens can map their communities and share first-hand information for a holistic assessment of their city's ecological and social health. The one thing I've probably missed the
- [Postcard from Medellín: A Big WUF for Urban Equity](https://svenworld.com/postcard-from-medellin-a-big-wuf-for-urban-equity/) - “Is this your first WUF?” is a question commonly asked at the World Urban Forum, a gathering for, by, and about city people that was first convened by UN Habitat in Nairobi in 2002 and descended on Medellín, Colombia last week for its 7th incarnation. While the answer coming out of my mouth was always
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- [How hard is it to serve a nutritious meal to 5000 people, using dumpster-bound ingredients only?](https://svenworld.com/how-hard-is-it-to-serve-a-nutritious-meal-to-5000-people-using-dumpster-bound-ingredients-only/) - Well, really not that hard at all. Since the first Feeding the 5000 event was held in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2009, these inspiring campaigns to shine a light on the incredible global food waste have "mushroomed" from Paris to Dublin, Manchester, Sydney, Amsterdam, Brussels, and other cities across the globe. Inspired by the hard-to-swallow
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