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Postcard from Rio, Part 1
This month, a team of Ecocity Builders associates went to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to give talks, listen, collaborate with local communities, and promote the...
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Postcard from Rio, Part 2
This month, a team of Ecocity Builders associates went to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to give talks, listen, collaborate with local communities, and promote the...
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Postcard from Rio, Part 3
This month, a team of Ecocity Builders associates went to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to give talks, listen, collaborate with local communities, and promote the...
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Eco Cities and the Eco Valley
by Eero Paloheimo and Pekka Paloheimo A Global Survey 2011 on Eco-Cities [1] includes 174 examples of Eco-Cities in the world and also a short historical view on their development. As far as we know,...
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Car Free Journey, November 2012, continued
Downtown Los Angeles Downtown LA Why stay in Downtown LA? Historic Downtown LA is re-emerging as the heart of Los Angeles, with many restaurants, bars, art galleries, sports teams, and more. Once...
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Bolivia Enacts New Law for Mother Earth
By Sara Shahriari October 26, 2012, Indian Country Today Media Network “Mother Earth is the living dynamic system made up of the indivisible community of all living systems and living beings,...
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Sustainable Cities: 178 mayors elected in the first round joined the program
Candidates who have been to the second round and now even the elected can still sign the letter of engagement platform, which offers a full agenda for sustainable development Airton Goes...
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Superstorm Sandy to America: “You should have paid attention to those climate...
by Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders But even more so “you should have paid attention to those ecocity people.” Here’s the scoop, our very own “news analysis,” that is, what did the press...
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The Moral Equivalent of War: Joining with our Chinese Neighbors to Stop the...
By Ambassador Kwon Byung Hyun former South Korean ambassador to China Founder & President Future Forest The Green Wall of China: an attempt to slow Gobi desert encroachment, China It seems as if we...
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Car Free Journey: December, 2012 By Steve Atlas
First Night Ferris Wheel, Raleigh, North Carolina As the holidays approach, many of us wonder how to spend New Year’s Eve. One of my favorite New Year’s Eve activities is “First Night:” A non-alcoholic...
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CityBuzz: The “Mushroom Garden” underground park
The High Line Park in Manhattan–an old elevated railway transformed into a snaking park trail–has officially sparked a frenzy of excitement about rehabilitating old transit areas into green space, even...
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Good ideas: Three ways to rethink parking
Like it or not, cars have, are and will be an integral part of our urban experience for years yet. Making them more energy efficient and moving them more sustainably are important issues in urban...
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Why Nantes? Europe’s Green Capitol 2013
To those who say Ecocities are impossible, that a green economy will fail, and that citizens will never support or get involved in Eco-principles on a large scale, I give you Nantes. Nantes: The Venice...
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A big step forward for Oakland
Growing up near downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt was never a destination for me. My family went to Fairyland once and a while, and I have hazy memories of paddle boating. I remember a lot of bird...
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Floating cities becoming a reality
Building on water eliminates flood risk and enables expansion For thousands of years, human settlements have clustered around flood planes, from the banks of the Amazon River to lake Tonle Sap in...
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Registration is open for Ecocity Summit 2013
Online registration is now live for the Ecocity Summit in Nantes, this September 25th-27th. With online registration, you can set up a personal profile and visit this space any time to modify or...
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The Ecocity Summit 2013 Program is unveiled
More exciting developments on the 2013 Ecocity Summit! After culling from over 500 proposals from 48 different countries, the summit organizers have unveiled their final program selections. September...
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Ecocities to balance the new and the old in Bhutan
Richard is on the road again, leaving this week for Bhutan where he will meet with government officials about building ecocities in Panbang, a province of Zhemgang. Bhutan is a small Buddhist county...
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Rio Aladago – The Flooded City
How well does your city move people? Chances are complaints about the inefficiencies of public transit pop up daily. After all, you interact with cars, roads, buses, and light rail constantly. At the...
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Ecocity Insights: Wellbeing and Quality of life, Beyond the GDP
ECOCITY INSIGHTS by Jennie Moore, Director, Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship, British Colombia Institute of Technology The International Ecocities Framework and Standards (IEFS)...
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