by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Land use is essential to climate action. We need diverse, compact communities where people can meet their daily needs without a...
Category - Ecocity Snapshots
Proximity is the New Mobility
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Mobility is not an end in itself but rather a means of reaching destinations. Placing trip origins and destinations closer to one...
Local Action on a Global Emergency
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” That statement won’t surprise anyone who has...
Ecocities versus Wildfire
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Almost 40 percent of all US housing lies in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and consequently experiences increased risk from...
Bikes Make Vermont a Little Greener
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Vermont’s roads treat bicyclists to spectacular scenery, particularly in fall for muscle-powered leaf peeping. The Green Mountain...
Ecocities and the Power of Compact Redevelopment
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders In the May issue of Ecocities Emerging, I wrote that compact urban form, by itself, can cut resource and energy use in half. Three...
Ecocities and the Power of Greenspace
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Compact urban form, by itself, can cut resource and energy use in half concludes a report prepared by the International Resource...
Cultivating Climate Action
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders The generation of food emits almost as much greenhouse gas (GHG) worldwide as the generation of electricity. Yet the food...
Gabrovo, Bulgaria – European Green Leaf 2021 Award Winner
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Cats in Gabrovo have no tails, according to an ancient joke, because the people there are so cheap they don’t want to lose a...
2021 Is Finland’s Ecocity Year
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Lahti, Finland, reigns as the 2021 European Green Capital and also hosts Ecocity Builders’ Ecocity Forum on November 1-2...