Dallas, TX - December 2, 2008 — The City of Dallas will host a full-day “Design Charrette” this Friday to examine the necessary framework and community impact of what will become the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. The Charrette, attended by community design and urban planning experts from across the nation, [...]
The Future of Urban Life Looks ‘Green,’ Say Experts By NED POTTER May 29, 2008 It is a spring day, maybe 50 or a 100 years from now, and New York and Los Angeles are very different places from the ones you knew back in 2008. China’s new eco-city Dongtan won’t only look green but [...]
Over the past few years, Witold Rybczynski has penned some of the more fascinating pieces that I have read online. He writes about a range of urban planning, architectural, and landscape design topics with an acute sense of how these fields are intrinsically connected to social and environmental issues. Rybczynski publishes many of his [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I used to work in this building and now it is one of many images we’ll expect to see when Gary Braasch kicks off Ecocity 2008 in San Francisco with a 2 hour slideshow and presentation. Gary Braash’s images get at the heart of the climate change crisis, documenting receding glaciers, rising tides and tardy songbirds. [...]
From our ecocitymedia blog: Other than just being a great place to live, Vancouver, Canada may soon become a great green place to live. EcoDensity is their flagship green project, and the scope and breadth of what they are planning is pretty amazing. In beginning this process, Vancouver is putting itself at the cutting edge [...]
According to an article in yesterday’s Citizen Times Newspaper, Asheville City Council Representative Robin Cape has expressed interest in attending the Ecocity World Summit in April. If you read the article, you’ll see there’s a little controversy around it, so we offered to pay her way as our VIP guest. Read the full article here.
Watch: youtube / download Author, theorist and philosopher Richard Register is one of the pioneers of the ecocity movement, with 35 years of experience advocating for cities that facilitate humanity’s “creative and compassionate evolution” while contributing to the health of the planet. Richard is the author of several books, including Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance [...]
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