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Transforming Health with Wellville
It was a huge break for neighborhoods in the north end of Hartford, Connecticut, when the U.S. Department of Education last year awarded...
stevehamm31
Mar 24, 20221 min read
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Let’s Put a Carbon Tax on Just About Everything
By Aneta Popiel The UN’s Climate Champions have dedicated the “built environment” as today’s theme during the COP26 climate conference,...
stevehamm31
Nov 11, 20213 min read
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The World of Transport Is Quietly Pivoting
By James Cortada There has recently been a great deal of pushback and criticisms about how governments and corporations have performed in...
stevehamm31
Nov 10, 20214 min read
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Regenerating Society One "Cell" at a Time
By Steve Hamm Bridge Street in Humboldt (early morning) Ten years ago, Humboldt, Kansas, was a lot like thousands of small towns across...
stevehamm31
Nov 9, 20215 min read
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Help Build a Cellular Economy
Image by pollydot at pixelbay.com By Damian Costello One of the most fulfilling parts of my time as Economics and Politics lead in Pivot...
stevehamm31
Nov 9, 20214 min read
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All We Have To Decide Is What To Do With the Time That Is Given Us
By Chris Medary and Paul MacLean Among the many messages bestowed upon us by Tolkien, two in particular, from the Grey Wizard strongly...
stevehamm31
Nov 8, 20213 min read
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River Teachers: A River Speaks
A River Speaks is a short documentary film that explores a small river in Connecticut and, more broadly, the complex relationship between...
stevehamm31
Nov 7, 20211 min read
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It's Time to Set a Place for Grief and Loss at Our Community Table
By Rose Diamond With COP26 in full swing in Glasgow, Scotland, I invite you to join me in these few pages to take a look at why it is...
stevehamm31
Nov 7, 202113 min read
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Let’s Use Biomimicry to Take on Climate Change
By Gamelihle Sibanda Certified Biomimicry Professional Gamelihle Sibanda with a termite mound The climate change issue has become so big,...
Gamelihle Sibanda
Nov 6, 20214 min read
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Let's Give Nature a Seat at the Table
By Bryony Bowman, Ian Abbott-Donnelly, R.. Peter Williams, and Jean-Francois Barsoum The rivers of Europe. Credit: Robert Szucs,...
stevehamm31
Nov 6, 20214 min read
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Pivoting Agriculture & Food Supply
By Colin Harrison Like air and water, food is essential to sustaining our lives. As such, it should be sold at very low cost, so that...
stevehamm31
Nov 5, 20213 min read
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Micro Grids Could Have Macro Impact
By James Cortada Tiny electrical grids supplying electricity are being set up by homeowners, businesses, and communities all over the...
stevehamm31
Nov 4, 20214 min read
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Rethinking Food During an Energy Transition
By Simon Ratcliffe Wheat harvest in the US midwest (Credit Oklahoma State University) During recent days the British media is full of...
stevehamm31
Nov 4, 20215 min read
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It's Time to Rethink the Built Environment
By Kevin Bygate The location of the concept of homelessness in a Kumu ontology map of the universe The UK government has designated...
stevehamm31
Nov 3, 20215 min read
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We Can Transform a Consumer Culture into a Sharing Culture
By Stephen Hinton Is that feeling getting to you? You know, the one where you start to feel that our human civilization, with its 7.8...
stevehamm31
Nov 2, 20214 min read
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A Message to World Leaders: It’s Time to Pivot
Credit: Anders Hellberg By Prof. Peter Head CBR FREng As you arrive in Glasgow for the COP 26 meeting, you have an opportunity to grab a...
stevehamm31
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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Come to the Museum of the Future Past
In an effort to awaken people to some of the crazy unsustainable stuff that we humans do, Pivot Projects has created a virtual museum,...
stevehamm31
Oct 29, 20211 min read
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It's Time to Pivot
Colin Harrison, one of the founders of Pivot Projects, reflects back on the journey the group has taken and forward to our live and...
stevehamm31
Oct 28, 20211 min read
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Calling for the Voices of Youth
Pivot Projects will be hosting an event, It’s Time to Pivot, on Nov. 6 during the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, as part...
stevehamm31
Oct 19, 20211 min read
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It's Time to Pivot
By Steve Hamm The onrush of COVID-19 in March of 2020 was terrifying because of the speed of its spread and how little we knew about it....
Steve Hamm
Oct 14, 20213 min read
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No Human Being Is Illegal
Hip Hop and Storytelling on the theme of immigration, in New Haven, CT, USA.
Steve Hamm
Sep 24, 20211 min read
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How to Make the Hotel Industry Green
Bruce Becker, a Connecticut architect and real estate developer, is making over the long-abandoned Pirelli Building alongside I-95 in New...
Steve Hamm
Aug 21, 20211 min read
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WHAT IS POWER? A Pivot Projects conversation explored via Kumu
By Bill McKenna The image below is a link to a Kumu map. Through it, you can listen to excerpts from that conversation or the whole...
Steve Hamm
Aug 19, 20211 min read
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Twice a Refugee
The world is awash with refugees, and this is just the beginning. Climate change is likely to create a global refugee crisis the likes of...
Steve Hamm
Aug 9, 20211 min read
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Where AI and Mysticism Meet
One of the Pivot Projects workstreams is considering the intersection of artificial intelligence and mysticism. Turns out they might be...
Steve Hamm
Aug 6, 20211 min read
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The First Net-Zero Hotel in the USA
Developer Bruce Becker is saving the iconic Pirelli building in New Haven and making it an icon of sustainability.
Steve Hamm
Jun 18, 20211 min read
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Project World Stage
SparkBeyond's AI Engine Is Used to Spot Potential Climate Change Clusters One of the major frustrations among those who want to address...
Steve Hamm
May 14, 20214 min read
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Time to Reckon with Sea Level Rise
Sea level rise is coming, and it's going to impact everybody who lives in a tidal zone. This short video tells how Jonathan Waters and...
stevehamm31
May 13, 20211 min read
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Pivot Projects and The Pivot
I'm Steve Hamm, the self-appointed chronicler of Pivot Projects. I explained my own journey as an environmentalist, the journey of Pivot...
Steve Hamm
May 8, 20211 min read
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How to make progress when polarisation is accelerating disaster
Co-authored by John Alderdice For decades, scientists have been warning of the dangers of climate change, but the masses don’t seem to be...
Damian Costello
May 6, 20216 min read
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Let’s Go Cellular!
Ever since Damian Costello, head of Pivot Projects’ Economics, Law, and Politics workstream, coined the term Cellular Economy, I have...
Steve Hamm
Mar 26, 20214 min read
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The Cellular Economy – bringing democracy back to capitalism
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, there’s a chance for society to pivot toward a more sustainable and resilient future
Damian Costello
Mar 11, 20216 min read
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Swarm Leadership I
How to Organize without Leaders? The question what kind of movement is needed, to save our planet from industrial destruction, is...
Floris Koot
Mar 10, 202111 min read
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We Can Learn from Our Rivers
We humans love our rivers. We love to walk along them, sit beside them, fish in them, swim in them, skate on their frozen surfaces, write...
Steve Hamm
Jan 21, 20215 min read
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September report publication five years since the Paris Agreement
Pivot Projects is pleased to recognise the fifth anniversary on 12 December 2020 of the Paris Agreement in which 196 Parties committed to...
Colin Harrison
Dec 8, 20201 min read
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Cities: What makes the wheels go around?
I have studied this question in the context of cities for several years. I will present my thoughts about this work
Andre Head
Oct 19, 20201 min read
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Creating a global Built Environment Pivot
A conversation with Peter Head 7th October 2020 12:00 EST In 2008 I was working for Arup and spending a lot of time in China. It was the...
Peter Head
Oct 6, 20206 min read
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Launching our collaboration with SparkBeyond
New collective, Pivot Projects, to help policy makers solve global issues caused by COVID-19, using SparkBeyond AI-powered problem-solving
Andre Head
Sep 20, 20203 min read
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Shaping a Post-COVID-19 World
This story is available here on Medium
Colin Harrison
Sep 19, 20201 min read
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What it’s Like to be Embedded in Pivot Projects
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Steve Hamm
Aug 7, 20201 min read
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