by SCORAI | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog
By Russell England A small town in a mostly rural area of Kentucky promotes itself as one of the best small towns in America and a wonderful place to live and work. The chamber of commerce of a large city in the southeastern US announces plans to spend $20 million in...
by SCORAI | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog
By Robert Rattle Last week news was abuzz with information about a new international lawsuit claiming big tech knowingly sourced cobalt from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where children are losing their lives as a result of irresponsible mining...
by SCORAI | Dec 28, 2019 | Blog
By Halina Brown The U.S. must be the most competitive society on earth. It certainly moves the economy forward but we pay high price for it in in a diminished well-being. It starts at birth and never lets out. Well-to-do educated parents especially, compete through...
by SCORAI | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog
By Halina Brown When ZipCar was founded in 2000 I was attracted to the idea of replacing ownership with service as a paths toward sustainability: fewer cars to manufacture and fewer parking spaces to create. Since then, sharing instead of owning has skyrocketed, with...
by Halina Brown | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
Autonomous Vehicles and Consumption Halina Brown Technologies of personal mobility – cars, airplanes – enable us to pursue lifestyles of big consumption. The lesson from his experience is that we should think in advance about potential future impacts on consumption of...
by Halina Brown | May 25, 2017 | Blog, News
Report from Annual Conference of Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, May 18, 2017, Worcester, Massachusetts Halina Brown I recently attended an annual conference of a Massachusetts organization called Smart Growth Alliance. There, it became clear to me that if the...
