I recently attended the Ecocity Forum on “Circular Economy in Smart Cities” in Thessaloniki, Greece. This three-day event took place from October 3rd to 5th at the...
Category - Ecocity Insights
Discussions around the International Ecocity Framework and Standards indicators and other details of scientific evaluation of ecocities, from Dr. Jennie Moore, BCIT.
Lifestyle Carbon Footprints
Do you ever wonder what it would take for everyone to live in such a way that we could stop global warming? The Paris Agreement (UNFCC 2018) set an aspirational climate...
A Student Speaks About Her Experience Presenting at an Ecocity World Summit
Caitlin Purvis, a BCIT student, presented at a previous Ecocity World Summit. I asked Caitlin to share her experience as a presenter and any words of advice she would like to...
Comparing the International Ecocity Standards to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The World Bank (2018) has created a very useful Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals that tracks global and individual country progress towards achieving the United Nations (UN)...
EcoCities vs. Smart Cities
The second Ecocity Focus Lab will be held March 13 to 16, 2018 in Chennai, India. The focus is on exploring the differences and similarities between “ecocities” and...
Urban Metabolisms and Embodied Energy and Material Flows
Communities that are concerned with ecological sustainability can use “urban metabolism” studies as a way to understand how much energy and materials are flowing...
Green Buildings
The International Ecocity Standards identifies green buildings as an essential urban design feature (www.ecocitystandards.org). Specifically, new buildings and renovations are...
Ecocity Snapshots, Chapter 9: Essen, Germany: Greening brownfields
Essen lies at the heart of the Ruhr Valley, at one time one of the world’s largest concentrations of the coal and steel industries. Since the mid-20th Century, this city of...
Ecocity Standards, Indicators and Performance Benchmarks
The Ecocity Standards describe 18 conditions of an ecocity (www.ecocitystandards.org). Indicators are used to measure the condition being described within each standard and...
Christie Walk: Exploring Density by Design
The upcoming Ecocity World Summit will be held in Melbourne, Australia. Australia is home to some of the world’s leading ecocity thinkers and doers, including Paul Downtown...