16 Feb In Montreal, being an ecocity means being in it together
A while back I visited Montreal to attend the Ecocity World Summit, a biannual gathering of visionaries from around the globe....
A while back I visited Montreal to attend the Ecocity World Summit, a biannual gathering of visionaries from around the globe....
Ecocity Builders brought the Ecocitizen World Map Project (EWM) to the UNFCCC’s COP20 conference....
Uneven access to healthy and nutritious food is a global phenomenon – witness: many North Americans’ struggle with obesity while many Africans’ starve. Food often comprises the largest component of a city’s ecological footprint (COV 2011), and agriculture contributes 10-12 percent of global greenhouse gas...
by Richard Register, Founder, Ecocity BuildersThis is something of a continuation of my last article, with a whole new perspective.You may remember I wrote about a book called Extracted – How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Pillaging the Planet. Since then I’ve “met” The...
by Jennie Moore, Director, Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship, British Colombia Institute of TechnologyA socio-cultural feature of ecocities is that they support a healthy and equitable economy. The International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS) identifies that the city’s economy “consistently favors economic activities that reduce...