Last week I went on a tour of Recycle Central, San Francisco’s 200,000-square-foot recycling plant on Pier 96 run by San Francisco’s resource recovery company Recology...
Category - The EcoMuse
Developing Better Urban Habits
Our blogger-in-chief Sven Eberlein contributed to this month’s The Nature of Cities‘ Global Roundtable on how to make urban nature and its value more visible to people...
The Car of the Future, Part 3: Get around. Not too fast. Mostly walk.
The previous segment of this series left off discussing how lifestyle choices, infrastructure, and a new economic thinking must work in tandem to change the overall trajectory...
The Car of the Future, Part 2: Reducing the fleet through personal, infrastructure & economic change
If indeed the continued proliferation of the personal automobile is not compatible with the future we want as I have suggested in Part 1 of this series, the question naturally...
The Car of the Future, Part 1: Why the world needs FEWER not better cars
With the upcoming 21st UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) this December promising to be a multi-lane highway towards a low carbon society, it begs the question how this lofty...
Ecocity = Permacity?
If you’ve ever tried to grow anything in your garden you’ve probably had your share of unrealized visions. In your rookie year perhaps the tomatoes never turned red or the...
The Beauty of Venice, or How to Be An Ecocity Without Trying
On my way to the Ecocity World Summit in Istanbul back in 2009 I decided to detour through Italy. My parents were living in Vicenza at the time, providing the perfect excuse for a...
In Montreal, being an ecocity means being in it together
A while back I visited Montreal to attend the Ecocity World Summit, a biannual gathering of visionaries from around the globe.
Pachamama Rumblings in Lima!
Yesterday the whole left brain greenhouse gas haggling exercise at the COP20 Climate Summit got a huge kick in the pants when 20,000 marching souls took to the streets of Lima for...
WARNING: Graphic Humor May Cause Severe Climate Change Awareness
So here I am, fresh off the proverbial boat to witness Week 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru, aka COP20, or the 20th session of the...