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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. We wrote them from New York. it is design.

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. It’s a bit confusing, because at the end of 2019, we had 11 currencies, we’d gone digital, and trading was happening through ‘liquidity pools’ where a village could trade with another village, and we were experimenting with blockchain. million worth of trade last year.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

Hannover had just won the World’s Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. We wrote them from New York.