With a growing population, increasing consumption, and accompanying high rates of solid waste, Cusco’s historic inner city neighborhoods have increasingly been feeling the need for the kind of in-depth accounting of conditions on the ground that is required to institute a holistic solution to their...
Last month the Ecocity Builders team traveled to our pilot city partners in Medellín/Colombia and Cusco/Peru to facilitate professional workshops as well as onsite demos to train communities in how to collect, upload, and visualize data from their own neighborhoods. Part of our Urbinsight platform...
Have you ever stood in the supermarket aisle, looking at rows of detergent or snacks, trying to decide which one's packaging and ingredients would do the least environmental damage if it landed in your shopping cart? Have you found yourself fretting over whether the conventionally...
If you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the strawberries got munched by bugs. If those mishaps didn't deflate you enough to replace the...
A while back I visited Montreal to attend the Ecocity World Summit, a biannual gathering of visionaries from around the globe....
Everything is connected.As part of my work with the Ecocitizen World Map project (EWM) I'm currently learning about Urban Metabolism Information Systems (UMIS), a whole systems analysis that measures everything flowing into and out of a city over time and space. The UMIS methodology was...
by Sven Eberlein“Is this your first WUF?” is a question commonly asked at the World Urban Forum, a gathering for, by, and about city people that was first convened by UN Habitat in Nairobi in 2002 and descended on Medellín, Colombia last week for its...