The Programs
  • The Commons Sustainability Agenda (and Gateway)
  • Pattern Breaks/Technology & Society:
  • New Mobility Agenda: Sustainable Transportation
  • Earlier Programs
  • Your Ideas, Proposals and Participation
    • Programs under The Commons are at present divided into two semi self-contained thematic "clusters": (a) Technology & Society/Pattern Breaks, and (b) The New Mobility Agenda/Sustainable Transportation. Recurrent themes throughout all these projects and programs include: (i) the search for ways to better balance our powerful economic motors and incentive systems with matters of community and social and personal harmony; (ii) technology got right as a powerful instrument for sustainable development; (iii) getting the best and avoiding the worst of the so-called "information society"; (iv) ways of parrying the dangers of the two-speed society that is presently among our gravest threats; (v) the concept of technology-mediated international teamwork and collaboration across national borders to these ends; "(vi) knowledge building" via technology and sharing; and (vii) new concepts and new levels of citizen leadership cooperation, activism and governance. And the list goes on ...

    The Commons (Gateway)

    The Commons site itself (i.e., this home page section and its direct accoutrements) is the place where these various central themes are brought up and considered in a more general sense. For more on the individual programs, you are invited to click the titles that may interest you. In each case the more current programs are listed toward the top. Among the main cross-cutting programs and tools that are housed in this section of the site are the following (each of which directly linkable from here and with its own explanatory materials):

    Technology and Society: Breakthrough Systems

    What these programs have in common is that they challenge the inertial attitudes that are holding back the move to a more just, more varied and creative, and more sustainable society, each in its own area and in its own way.
  • Rethinking Work: New Ways to Work in an Information Society
  • The Politics of Sustainability
  • The Stockholm Challenge Network
  • 21st Turtle Media
  • Turning Point 2000
  • Mississippi Rising
  • International Buy Nothing Day
  • Information Society and Sustainable Development
  • Einstein: Combating exclusion through new approaches and technologies of learning (not currently active)
  • Toward Zero Emissions - Virtual Conference I (no longer current)
  • Zero Emissions Strategies - Virtual Conference II (no longer current)
  • Telework as a Zero Emissions Strategy (no longer current)
  • Teleconferencing '98 (no longer current)
  • The Electronic Environment (no longer current)
  • Energy, Growth and the Environment (Undergoing reorganization)

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    New Mobility Agenda//Sustainable Transportation

    The broader phrase which we use for programs which focus on the search for new sustainable solutions to our movement problems. As with all programs here, the emphasis is not so much on research as on policy and practice.

  • @ccess on the Web: Toward Sustainable Transportation
  • @World CarShare Consortium
  • The Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice
  • @World Car Free Days
  • Children on the Move to Sustainable Development
  • Earth CarFree Day 2001
  • Le Transport Nouveau: Innovations et Transport Durable
  • Bilbao 2001(ITS Convergence world conference)
  • AB2010 Foro de Accesibilidad - Bilbao 2010
  • Ciudades Accesibles
  • OECD -- Towards Sustainable Transportation - World Conference
    • If you consult 1999 Work Program and Intentions, you will find an introduction to that year's work plans (but these are, we would note, January 1999 perspectives and a lot has happened since then).

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    Earlier Programs

    Navigating in these programs may be a bit rough in time, including eventual problems with some of the links. Time has a way of moving on, and links on the Web too. Still, you may find some points of interest in one or more of these earlier efforts. If only as museum pieces.
  • The Commons (January 1996 Web site)
  • Einstein: Combating Exclusion through New Technology
  • The Electronic Environment (1996, incomplete)
  • Information Society and Sustainable Development
  • Telework (Component of Zero Emissions Conference collaboration)
  • Teleconferencing 98
  • OECD Berlin Conference on Innovations for Sustainable Transportation (Sept. 1999)
  • The Plato Network (1998, with European Commission)
  • OECD -- Towards Sustainable Transportation Conference (March 1996)
  • Zero Emissions Strategies Virtual Conference I (With the Center for Environment and Resource Management, INSEAD, and the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, Summer 1997)
  • Zero Emissions Strategies Virtual Conference II
    (Same sponsors as above, Winter 1997/98)

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