by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Valencia, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, has won the title of European Green Capital for 2024. From an initial field of eight...
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30 X 30 Role Models
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Over 100 nations have pledged to protect 30 percent of their land and 30 percent of their ocean by 2030. Now that the commitments...
High Gas Prices Can Also Be a Catalyst
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders People are spending a lot of energy these days complaining about the high cost of gasoline. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we...
Steps in the Right Direction
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders For over a century, most American cities have tried to serve mobility needs by favoring cars over public transit and active...
Climate Action Synergies
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Climate action can relieve poverty while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the growing hazards of climate change...
Tallinn Named 2023 European Green Capital
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders The European Commission has picked Tallinn as the 2023 European Green Capital. Located 40 miles across the Baltic Sea from...
Zero-Emission Cities
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Governments and businesses are finally getting excited about electric vehicles (EVs). That is promising as long as cities...
It Pays to Make Connections
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders The United States is finally promoting walking, bicycling and other forms of active transportation within a system that has been...
Greenbelts Grow Local Climate Action
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Communities with greenbelts conserve more open space and consequently sequester more carbon than communities without greenbelts...
The Regenerative City
by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders “What becomes of civilization in this century will be determined by what happens in urban and suburban environments.” That...