Work is underway to shape the program for the upcoming Ecocity World Summit to be held in Vancouver, Canada from October 7 to 11, 2019.The overarching conference theme is “socially just and ecologically sustainable cities” with three sub-themes addressing:climate action circular economy informal solutions...
It’s halftime for the Ecocity 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge and what better way to mark the occasion than with a challenge that is near and dear to the ECOCITY cause: Walk, bike, or take public transit.If you haven't already, today is as fun and easy...
The World Bank (2018) has created a very useful Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals that tracks global and individual country progress towards achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). There are 17 goals that were first articulated in 2009 and cover a wide range of...
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 June 2012 at the Rio +20 global summit on sustainable development, UN Environment launched the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (GI-REC) to capitalize on the potential for cities to lead action towards greater resource efficiency. One of the initiative’s core activities is to...
After co-creating more robust urban knowledge systems in some of the city’s poorest and most violent hillside neighborhoods during Phase I of the Ecocity Builders (ECB) / Secondary Cities (2C) Medellín implementation of Project Urbinsight, the team determined that the next priority neighborhood type should...
The Municipality of Medellín is the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of the state of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains in South America. With its surrounding area that includes nine other cities and...
Like many European and North American cities, Brussels is heavily dependent on energy, water and materials sourced elsewhere. While its metropolitan region — covering around 160 square kilometers and home to over 1.1 million inhabitants — has seen strong growth in consumption across most sectors...
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...