@carbonsmart@futurecapetown@OpenStreetsCT This is the work of the Keyes Art Mile development. Not sure how they thought this through. See First Thursdays Johannesburg Facebook page for FT's position on it.
I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to VR and that kind of thing, but this is a pretty interesting application of augmented reality to build a complex brick wall. https://t.co/aDOlAj4GG3
"... when people have lived for a long time under similar conditions (of climate, soil, danger, necessity, work), then something comes into being as a result, something that 'goes without saying'; a people." - Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
Yes you just heard @brettherron on @KienoKammies commit first ever affordable housing on old bowling greens in Green Point, which we’ve named the Rasta Dolophini Site - Next to most expensive property in Africa. We are women, we are cleaners and carers, we can RECLAIM the land.
#Inequality matters - particularly in a #postgrowth world; is #BasicIncome the answer? Our new working paper looks at the options. https://t.co/IiDRAodMhu
A key takeaway from a lecture I attended the other night: We tend to measure success by what one "gets" (earns, receives, accumulates), but we really should be measuring success by what one "gives" (shares, contributes, improves).
I love how @Our_DA can flood @CityofCT with election posters 3 months before an election, but 3 months before the taps run dry (#DayZero) and it's all kumbaya business as usual. 😐
Well done @PatriciaDeLille
I see the #watercrisis in Cape Town as a collective action problem. A neo-liberal local government is especially ill-equipped to handle such a problem. When they've preached personal responsibility for years it's not easy to then get people to accept collective responsibility
NO NUCLEAR DEAL!!! "How can government talk about improving the quality of life of citizens, when they don’t want to talk to citizens, nor do they want to objectively discuss the risks citizens are expected to take with nuclear?" https://t.co/LbXADddOxx