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...
As composting modules are sprouting up throughout Cusco’s historic neighborhoods and new archetype maps are being made available to planners, academics, and community members as a result of the Ecocity Builders-facilitated Secondary Cities (2C) pilot, Team Urbinsight thought it would be the perfect time to...
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...
Have you ever run across an advertisement saying dirt is good? Have you ever wondered what would need to happen for garbage to be considered beneficial?Well, garbage is just garbage until it is turned into a valuable resource. In the case of organic waste, this...
In 2009 what could have been a threshold-crossing competition into a far healthier future took place on the future of San Francisco Bay Area. As far as I’m concerned the opportunity was lost. Can we get a second chance?The competition was called “Rising Tides” and...
We are recently back from Santa Fe, Argentina, where, under the Secondary Cities program of the US Office of the Geographer, Ecocity Builders teamed up with a local NGO, the Mayor’s office, and the local public university to host a three-day technical workshop on urban...
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...
Following an engaging event with community leaders, city staff, academics, students, and citizen activists, Ecocity Builders has begun Phase II of its partnership with Cusco, Peru. I feel privileged to take part in this work as a landscape architect with a background in historical landscapes...