by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the best and/or worst new thing. Advocates say it will rocket mankind to new heights of...
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Peak Population and the Ecocity Standards
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Around the world, birthrates are falling and the ability to offset that trend through in-migration is uncertain for various...
Seniors and the Housing Crisis
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders For decades, experts have urged older Americans to move into shared-housing arrangements and senior housing developments for...
The Skinny of Safer Streets
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Over 7,500 pedestrians in the United States were killed by cars in 2022. We no longer call these tragedies an accident. Street...
A Step in the Right Direction
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders The first car-free development in the United States was recently unveiled in Tempe, Arizona. One 17-acre infill project may not...
Ecomobility Bridges the Political Divide
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders States are primarily using transportation funding to accommodate roadway expansion for cars, resulting in even more climate...
Climate Action Through Land Use
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Land use reform can achieve more climate action results than switching half of all cars in the US to electric vehicles (EV) by...
New Life for Old Buildings
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Office vacancies are at a 30-year high while the US has a housing shortage of over seven million units. Converting some of that...
Balancing Electric Vehicles with Ecomobility
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders We must transition to zero-emission vehicles. But let’s not pretend that EVs are a panacea. While EVs eliminate tailpipe...
Street Fight: Cars vs Bikes
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Drivers strongly support bike lanes …. as long as they don’t reduce any lanes for cars. To win the fight for ecomobility, we need...