Camino Real is considered one of the few neighborhoods with large green spaces in the North Western district of Cusco, which is why a new generation of residents want to protect it and designate it as an ecotourism neighborhood. To make it happen, a number...
Joshua Castro is Ecocity Builders' local lead for Cusco’s sustainable plan. Joining Team Urbinsight during Phase 2 of the program, he has been capturing the progress in participating neighborhoods through interviews, photography and videos. We recently caught up with Joshua to ask him a few...
Week 1 of the Ecocity 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge has been off to a great start, thanks to all who've signed up and those who've jumped onboard as the ripples were spreading across social media. Here are just a couple of comments we've received: "Something that happened:...
In 2019, Vancouver will proudly host an international audience of urban stakeholders who are eagerly looking to develop cities in balance with the natural world. The conference website is now up and running at www.ecocity2019.com. The organizers are actively working with key individuals to create...
Cape Town is in a precarious position. Like many cities around the world, it is experiencing an extreme water shortage, which has at once drawn attention to the importance of water, as well as to our difficulty in planning for, and managing, resources as well...
This month, an Ecocity Builders delegation will be traveling to Chennai, India to co-convene an Ecocity Focus Lab on the topic of Smart Ecocities. At the core of the discussion will be an analysis of Chennai’s Ecocity Footprint, a measure of how Chennai is currently doing in regard to...
To appreciate the impacts and results of utilizing the urban metabolism model, one must first understand how it works. Urban Metabolism is the study of resource flows through a city. It can be used as a tool for improving urban health and sustainability. Urban Metabolism...
Ecocity Builders is preparing for this year’s #GivingTuesday set for November 28, 2017. A global giving movement built by citizens and organizations around the world, #GivingTuesday changes the way people think about, talk about, and participate in the giving season, inspiring collective action to...
In 2005, I read Richard Register’s Ecocities in my community development class and just a few months later began as a student intern. The world has made much progress with the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement, but the contradictions of center and periphery, technology...
Our first Ecocity Focus Lab will be taking place November 7 to 10 in Vancouver, Canada at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Participants will review indicators capable of assessing the Ecocity Standards, and the benchmarks for defining the Ecocity 1 level. The preliminary workshop day on...