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...
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Minneapolis: Learning from the Grand Rounds
Excerpt from Prosperity Comes in Cycles by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Bicycle trails are good for business. They attract restaurants, brewpubs and retail shops...
New Mexico: Gearing Up for Bicycles
Excerpt from Prosperity Comes in Cycles by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders New Mexico is not yet known as a bicycling paradise. But Albuquerque and Santa Fe are...
Quebec’s Route verte: Green in Many Ways
Excerpt from Prosperity Comes in Cycles by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Bicycle trails are good for business. They attract restaurants, brewpubs and retail shops...
Courage in the Anthropocene
Personal acts of courage may be required now, more than ever, as the impacts of global unsustainability manifest. Whether it is climate change, ocean acidification, soil...
Bicycling and Portland’s Green Dividend
Excerpt from Prosperity Portland Chapter by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Bicycle trails are good for business. They attract restaurants, brewpubs and retail shops...
Ecocities Emerging in Vancouver: Transforming Oakridge Shopping Mall into an Ecocity Fractal
An ecocity fractal is a place where all the elements of an ecocity come together in a small area (between two and seven city blocks). It provides a post card, snapshot of a place...
Arizona: The Greater Tucson Loop Connects All the Dots
Excerpt from Prosperity Comes in Cycles by Rick Pruetz, Vice President, Ecocity Builders Arizona has loads of sunshine, great scenery and an evolving network of bicycle trails. As...
How shall we live?
by Jeff Stein, Ecocity Builders First things first: Here is a recent photograph of the Arcosanti Road leading from Cordes Junction, AZ toward the site of Arcosanti, the urban...
Reflections and Outcomes of the Ecocity World Summit 2019 in Vancouver
The 13th edition of the Ecocity World Summit was held in Vancouver, October 7-11. By all accounts it was a great success with participation from 1,063 people from 59 countries...