by Jennie Moore, Director, Institute Sustainability at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Director, Ecocity Centre of Excellence at BCIT. For a three month period...
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Expecting the Unexpected: Another Cautionary Example
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Official government maps identify roughly half of the properties actually at risk of flooding in the US. Unlike the approach used...
Ecocity Standards and the Urban Nature Index
by Jennie Moore, Director, Institute Sustainability at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Director, Ecocity Centre of Excellence at BCIT. Ecological Imperatives is the...
Bicycling toward Equality
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders During the pandemic, record numbers of people have (re)discovered bicycling as an enjoyable way to maintain health and fitness in...
Socio-Economic and Socio-Ecological Progress in the Anthropocene
by Jennie Moore, Director, Institute Sustainability at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Director, Ecocity Centre of Excellence at BCIT. Many people frame economic and...
Still Life
by Jeff Stein, Ecocity Builders “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone...
Bikes Build Back Better
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Bicycle lanes and paths should be a big part of COVID 19 recovery. Cycling has increased during the pandemic for recreation and...
Clean and Renewable Energy: rethinking consumption and growth for a Just Transition
by Jennie Moore, Director, Institute Sustainability at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Director, Ecocity Centre of Excellence at BCIT. On April 22, 2020 we...
The Other Pandemic
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Deaths from COVID-19 have been compared with traffic fatalities as an argument to reopen the economy during the coronavirus...
An Accelerating Pace of Change: Welcome to the New Normal
As people around the world brace for the impacts of the Novel Corona Virus (aka SARS-CoV-2 or COVID 19), it is worth observing a few long-standing insights about the accelerating...