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12 Oct Sustainable Neighborhood Plan for Moravia, Medellín

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We’re excited to announce the release of Sustainable Neighborhoods – Moravia, a collaborative and intersectoral project to develop a sustainable neighborhood plan for Medellín’s Moravia neighborhood, initiated and funded by the United Nations’ Environment Program. Led by Ecocity Builders, the Planning Department of the Mayor’s...

26 Aug Indigenous Wisdom and the Peripheries of Calculation: Reflections on Ecocity 2017 in Melbourne

Posted at 03:45h in Uncategorized by Richard Smith 0 Comments

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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...

26 Sep Horizontal City + Vertical City = 3-D City

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I have to credit two people for transforming cities around the world, starting in the US, into horizontal, that is, flat cities. I’ll show you a picture of both of them. Their world impact has been incalculable. First is Henry Ford who created probably the...

24 Feb Ecocity Economics 101

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Ecocity Economics 101 Richard Register Some of you regular readers of our Ecocity Builders Newsletter might be interested in the way my mind works, which is largely through visual representation, so this article is one version of that. This will be something of an introduction...

27 Jan My Friend Sylvia

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I hadn’t seen Sylvia in six months, the longest stretch in the last 20 years or more. Too much travel, followed by greatly reduced mobility – mine, because of sciatica. Man did it hurt! Hard to walk. But being 90% recovered from two months of...

04 Jan The Anthropocene vs. the Ecozoic

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What about the long-term vision, not just for ecocities, necessary to any healthy vision of the future, but the longest term vision? For that we have to look to evolution. Most of you readers of our newsletter have no doubt noticed the banner heading under...

03 Aug Exploring Ecocity Standards through Ecocity World Summit 2015

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The world of Ecocity practitioners will once again converge this fall at the biannual Ecocity World Summit. The Ecocity World Summit 2015 will be held October 11-13 in Abu Dhabi (http://www.ecocityworldsummit.com/index.php). Participants will have an opportunity to learn about and...

30 Apr New Ecocity Study Finds Urban Metabolism Approach May Contribute to Quality of Life in Informal Areas

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Cairo University Professor Dr. Sahar Attia and Associate Professor Dr. Heba Allah E. Khalil have just released their most recent research (Urban Metabolism and Quality of Life in Informal Areas) on using the urban metabolism methodology not only as a quantifying, analyzing tool to measure...

27 Apr The Paradigms We Live In: Nature’s paradigms and ours

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The following essay appeared as two parts in the monthly newsletter of the California educational non-profit Ecocity Builders, the first for their April, 2015 edition and the second for their May, 2015 edition with two separate titles, one for each month. ~ · ~ Begin...

30 Mar Baku, Azerbaijan – A good Place for a “New Paradigm” conference

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The “New Paradigm in Human Development Conference,” organized by the World Academy of Art and Science, will be in a place remarkable for hosting such an event for it was the first real and long running Capital of the Age of oil.