General Concept of Future City Now

Welcome to Future City Now, our discussion on ideas, financing, and details of the city of the future. We are beginning today.

The main idea behind Future City Now is that it consists of more than simple improvements in technology here and there. We need drastically different types of cities and towns if we are to become sustainable in the future. These ideas will not all be completely new but instead a gathering and combining of great ideas that need to be acted upon.

I hear and see quite a bit about green technology, about improvements we need to make or that some people are already making. Most of these ideas are good but cannot work alone. We also need to redesign not only our cities, but also our dreams and desires if the general public is to accept the way of living in the future. There is a show on television that is interesting but it frustrates me to see them pit possible technologies against each other, rate them, and then choose one for their future city. I enjoy watching the show but we cannot choose one technology over the other. I believe in more distribution in some cases, such as using many green technologies like wind and solar power at the same time.

We are in the infancy of our green revolution and I hope it is not too late for life to continue to exist on planet Earth. We all have good ideas and now is the time to start acting upon them in a methodological manner. We will begin by presenting and discussing ideas on this website.

Thank you again!