I have recently been thinking a lot about what sustainability means to me, and what experiences have shaped my definition of this term. As an environmental studies major, we use...
Category - Knowledge
MYTH: Countries Should First Get Rich, Then Worry about Health and the Environment
Excerpt from Beyond Apologies, Defining and Achieving an Economics of Wellbeing by Debra Efroymson Debra Efroymson is Regional Director of the Canadian NGO HealthBridge. She has...
New Ecocity Study Finds Urban Metabolism Approach May Contribute to Quality of Life in Informal Areas
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...
Ecocity = Permacity?
If you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the...
Understanding your city by understanding its flow: towards Participatory Urban Metabolism Information Systems
Everything is connected. As part of my work with the Ecocitizen World Map project (EWM) I’m currently learning about Urban Metabolism Information Systems (UMIS), a whole...