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...
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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...
Ecocities through Farmland Preservation
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders The environmental impact of future growth can be cut in half by the formation of compact cities where dense, mixed-use development...
The Path to Pathways
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders In Prosperity Comes in Cycles, I wrote that people are increasingly seeking alternatives to car dependency though active...
Population Bomb and Bust
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders In November 2022, world population surpassed 8 billion people. Despite the strain already placed on Earth by our prolific species...
Transformation Through Ecomobility
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders “Cycling is not a goal in itself but rather a highly-prioritized political tool for creating a more livable city.” That’s a quote...
Biodiversity, 30×30, and Ecocities
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders The 30X30 challenge aims to conserve at least 30 percent of all land and water throughout the world by 2030. This effort energizes...
Autonomous Vehicles: Heaven or Hell?
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders In 2018, manufacturers were claiming that autonomous vehicles (AVs) would be on the market by 2020. Out of concern that these...
Ecomobility 2023: London
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders London, (site of the Ecocity World Summit 2023, June 6, 7, and 8), aims to become the world’s best big city for cycling. That’s...