By Richard Register, founder, Ecocity Builders His name is Wang Rusong, last name first in China, and Wang pronounced “Wong” – much softer in sound, as befits this wonderful man. At five minutes after midnight on November 28 in a Beijing hospital my friend Wang Rusong died....
by Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders We are all in it together: we, our fellow travelers on this circling planet, the plants and animals, the very minerals and laws of nature in a constant dance of emergence and entropy, sometimes called evolution. "As we build so shall...
by David Waight Had enough of Winter? - Ready for a getaway? - Martha's Vineyard Island may just be the perfect end of the winter getaway. A popular summer resort, famous for its many beaches, it is also a good choice in the Spring and Fall...
by Richard Register [caption id="attachment_3224" align="alignleft" width="300"] Paolo Soleri two or three years before Richard met him, that is, around 1962 or 1963. He is working on his early structures at Cosanti in Paradise Valley, then some distance from Phoenix, now surrounded by urban sprawl.Photo credit:...
by Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders I'm just back from France and helping with some planning for the 10th International Ecocity Conference/Ecocity World Summit in Nantes coming up September 25 through 27. Thinking back over the last nine International Ecocity Conferences to the First International Ecocity...
October 27, 2009 and I was getting off Vancouver's SkyTrain at the Lake City Way Station. With me was my friend Jennie Moore, Director of Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship for the British Columbia Institute of Technology. "There it is," I said, camera in hand....
Remembering Sandy Hook and Columbine This might seem a stretch but when John Muir said everything in the universe is connected to everything else he was serious. He was speaking of the ecology of natural systems in the broadest sense – and human ecologies too, no...
By Richard Register, Founder and President, Ecocity Builders Richard Register What on Earth is going on? Well, the US is big and cars are losing popularity gradually as young people turn to portable electronic communications, take in the advantages and direct experience of the pleasures of...
Some Strong Seeds in Degrading Soils View from Fort Leme, Rio de Janeiro (June 14 through June 17, the "World Congress of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability" and June 18 through 23 the "United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development" organized by the United Nations Department of...
by Richard Register Tong Yen Ho, Chief Executive Office of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Project, asked me about the origin of the word "ecocity." I sent him a short version of the story just yesterday. Then Today Kirstin Miller asked me for an article for our...