Out of over 600 posted last year, the following videos received the largest audiences from June 2008 – June 2009.

(Note… many of the videos below were uploaded to multiple online viewers – thus – the view count in youtube, google or dailymotion may not reflect the actual view count)

Here are the videos:

In 2008, we uploaded a whopping total of 712 videos to YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, TeacherTube and other social media video applications. I decided to take a look and try to spot the single most popular video we have posted. Not surprising, the most popular video was viewed by a global community and speaks to a global solution. It is my pleasure to present to you Mr. Peter Head, Chief Architect of the Dong Tan Ecocity project on Chong Ming Island in China.

[Photo courtesy of Spencer Lindsay]

Summitgoers push for sustainable cities

Is there life after cars? Could your house be transformed into a unit in a mixed-use, multifamily building with a vegetable garden on the roof? Would you drink “toilet to tap” water – purified, recycled sewage – or would you rather die of thirst?

These questions and many others like them were asked – and at least partially answered – by an eclectic group of avant-garde designers, builders, planners, organizers, artists and mayors (including Gavin Newsom) from around the world. They gathered at the Ecocity World Summit conference in San Francisco last month to share their ideas and experiences in an effort to create sustainable cities – and there was a palpable sense of urgency in their voices as they spoke of climate change, water and food shortages, soil depletion, deforestation and poverty.

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Just when you think that the “mainstream media” isn’t paying attention to the real environmental issues, they run two headline global stories on Ecocities. When we took on the Ecocity World Summit as a client, there was concern about whether or not we could get big media to pay attention. But as the worlds largest and only significant global gathering of ecocity pioneers approaches, ecocity thinking is rising fast in world consciousness. Below you can get CNN’s take on two of the Summit’s major contributors.

[ Building The Future ]

LONDON, England (CNN) — It’s easy to overlook the impact buildings have on greenhouse gas emissions, but the places where we live and work contribute over 30 percent of global greenhouse emissions.

An artist’s impression of how the Dongtan eco-city will look like when it is completed. The first stage is due to open in 2010.

Although the term “green architecture” was only coined about 20 years ago, architects have been embracing environmental or sustainable design for decades.

Today, architects are transforming our urban landscapes in ways which were previous unimaginable. Aided by cutting edge design and construction techniques, the bold new structures of today owe much to the techniques used by pre and early industrial pioneers. [Read this article]

And Peter Head was given his own profile, talking about his work in Dongtan.

[ Future Player: Peter Head ]

(CNN) — Peter Head is Director of urban design and development at Arup, the global design and business consulting firm.

Peter Head, of global design and business consulting firm Arup, is a noted pioneer of sustainable development.

Head is in charge of planning and development for Dongtan, the eco-city planned for construction on Chongming Island near Shanghai. Head himself describes it as: “the world’s largest sustainable development project.”

It was while he was overseeing the construction of the Second Severn Crossing — a bridge across the Bristol Channel linking England and Wales opened in 1996 — that he first became interested in sustainable development.

[Read This Article]

Just when you think that the “mainstream media” isn’t paying attention to the real environmental issues, they run two headline global stories on Ecocities. When we took on the Ecocity World Summit as a client, there was concern about whether or not we could get big media to pay attention. But as the worlds largest and only significant global gathering of ecocity pioneers approaches, ecocity thinking is rising fast in world consciousness. Below you can get CNN’s take on two of the Summit’s major contributors.

[ Building The Future ]

LONDON, England (CNN) — It’s easy to overlook the impact buildings have on greenhouse gas emissions, but the places where we live and work contribute over 30 percent of global greenhouse emissions.

An artist’s impression of how the Dongtan eco-city will look like when it is completed. The first stage is due to open in 2010.

Although the term “green architecture” was only coined about 20 years ago, architects have been embracing environmental or sustainable design for decades.

Today, architects are transforming our urban landscapes in ways which were previous unimaginable. Aided by cutting edge design and construction techniques, the bold new structures of today owe much to the techniques used by pre and early industrial pioneers. [Read this article]

And Peter Head was given his own profile, talking about his work in Dongtan.

[ Future Player: Peter Head ]

(CNN) — Peter Head is Director of urban design and development at Arup, the global design and business consulting firm.

Peter Head, of global design and business consulting firm Arup, is a noted pioneer of sustainable development.

Head is in charge of planning and development for Dongtan, the eco-city planned for construction on Chongming Island near Shanghai. Head himself describes it as: “the world’s largest sustainable development project.”

It was while he was overseeing the construction of the Second Severn Crossing — a bridge across the Bristol Channel linking England and Wales opened in 1996 — that he first became interested in sustainable development.

[Read This Article]

Just when you think that the “mainstream media” isn’t paying attention to the real environmental issues, they run two headline global stories on Ecocities. When we took on the Ecocity World Summit as a client, there was concern about whether or not we could get big media to pay attention. But as the worlds largest and only significant global gathering of ecocity pioneers approaches, ecocity thinking is rising fast in world consciousness. Below you can get CNN’s take on two of the Summit’s major contributors.

[ Building The Future ]

LONDON, England (CNN) — It’s easy to overlook the impact buildings have on greenhouse gas emissions, but the places where we live and work contribute over 30 percent of global greenhouse emissions.

An artist’s impression of how the Dongtan eco-city will look like when it is completed. The first stage is due to open in 2010.

Although the term “green architecture” was only coined about 20 years ago, architects have been embracing environmental or sustainable design for decades.

Today, architects are transforming our urban landscapes in ways which were previous unimaginable. Aided by cutting edge design and construction techniques, the bold new structures of today owe much to the techniques used by pre and early industrial pioneers. [Read this article]

And Peter Head was given his own profile, talking about his work in Dongtan.

[ Future Player: Peter Head ]

(CNN) — Peter Head is Director of urban design and development at Arup, the global design and business consulting firm.

Peter Head, of global design and business consulting firm Arup, is a noted pioneer of sustainable development.

Head is in charge of planning and development for Dongtan, the eco-city planned for construction on Chongming Island near Shanghai. Head himself describes it as: “the world’s largest sustainable development project.”

It was while he was overseeing the construction of the Second Severn Crossing — a bridge across the Bristol Channel linking England and Wales opened in 1996 — that he first became interested in sustainable development.

[Read This Article]

Just when you think that the “mainstream media” isn’t paying attention to the real environmental issues, they run two headline global stories on Ecocities. When we took on the Ecocity World Summit as a client, there was concern about whether or not we could get big media to pay attention. But as the worlds largest and only significant global gathering of ecocity pioneers approaches, ecocity thinking is rising fast in world consciousness. Below you can get CNN’s take on two of the Summit’s major contributors.

[ Building The Future ]

LONDON, England (CNN) — It’s easy to overlook the impact buildings have on greenhouse gas emissions, but the places where we live and work contribute over 30 percent of global greenhouse emissions.

An artist’s impression of how the Dongtan eco-city will look like when it is completed. The first stage is due to open in 2010.

Although the term “green architecture” was only coined about 20 years ago, architects have been embracing environmental or sustainable design for decades.

Today, architects are transforming our urban landscapes in ways which were previous unimaginable. Aided by cutting edge design and construction techniques, the bold new structures of today owe much to the techniques used by pre and early industrial pioneers. [Read this article]

And Peter Head was given his own profile, talking about his work in Dongtan.

[ Future Player: Peter Head ]

(CNN) — Peter Head is Director of urban design and development at Arup, the global design and business consulting firm.

Peter Head, of global design and business consulting firm Arup, is a noted pioneer of sustainable development.

Head is in charge of planning and development for Dongtan, the eco-city planned for construction on Chongming Island near Shanghai. Head himself describes it as: “the world’s largest sustainable development project.”

It was while he was overseeing the construction of the Second Severn Crossing — a bridge across the Bristol Channel linking England and Wales opened in 1996 — that he first became interested in sustainable development.

[Read This Article]

Get ready to change the world!

Throughout Earth Day Week, April 22-26, in San Francisco, the Ecocity World Summit (7th International Ecocity Conference) will convene an international community of inspired change-makers, courageous individuals addressing problems of the world’s environment with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable, ecologically healthy and socially just. The International Ecocity Conference Series brings together the key innovators, decision makers, technologists, businesses and organizations shaping the conversation around ecological and sustainable city, town and village design, planning and development. We intend to put these issues on the economic and environmental agenda for 2008 and beyond.

Ecocity World Summit 2008 Themes:

• People — population, health, equity, and access.
• Nature — protecting and restoring the planet’s living systems and agricultural lands.
• Sustainable Development — land use, transportation, architecture and infrastructure.
• Economies & Technologies — building the supporting markets, businesses and technologies.
• Incentives & Support Structures — role of government, organizations, institutions and individuals.

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