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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
This story is available here on Medium

Steve Hamm
Aug 7, 20201 min read
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