Urban Homesteading Our super lawyer, Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director of the EFF, has a blog post up on the EFF site: Riding the Fences of the “Urban Homestead”: Trademark Complaints and Misinformation Lead to Improper Takedowns summarizing the situation and the important issues at hand–issues that affect all of us. That post also has links to a letter she sent to the Dervaes Institute on our behalf. This has been such a big flap I suspect most of our readers know this by now, but for those of you who haven’t heard the news, the Dervaes Institute (the operators of the popular website, Path to Freedom) have trademarked the terms urban homestead and urban homesteading, and in the last week or so, have started to enforce their trademarks. Follow this link to Boing Boing for a concise summary of what’s been going on. We’ve landed in the middle of all this because in 2008 we wrote a book titled The Urban Homestead. But back to business. Who is the EFF? Again, thank you so much for your support.
Bioneers Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food Action for a sustainable world | Forum for the Future Sustainability Toolkit: Economic Models Tools are needed to put sustainable design theory into practice. To complement an earlier series of thematic resource guides organized around climate change, sustainable urban development, transportation, livable communities, and green infrastructure, this three-part “Sustainability Toolkit” will provide online toolkits, assessment tools, checklists, modeling software, and case studies designed to aid policy makers and design professionals roll out sustainable projects at the regional, urban, and local levels. The Sustainability Toolkit covers environmental, economic, and social models. Part one offered a range of environmental models. Part two covers economic models. Sustainability Toolkit: Economic Models focuses on economic sustainability, which involves the development of a healthy economy that supports and sustains people and the environment over the long-term. Go to Sustainability Toolkit: Economic Models Image credit: Taeoh Kim / ASLA 2009 Honor Award. Like this: Like Loading...
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