Work is underway to shape the program for the upcoming Ecocity World Summit to be held in Vancouver, Canada from October 7 to 11, 2019. The overarching conference theme is...
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#Ecocity 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge: 2nd Half Kick-off
It’s halftime for the Ecocity 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge and what better way to mark the occasion than with a challenge that is near and dear to the ECOCITY cause: Walk, bike, or...
Now is the time! #Ecocity 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge
Week 1 of the Ecocity 30-Day Zero Waste Challenge has been off to a great start, thanks to all who’ve signed up and those who’ve jumped onboard as the ripples were...
EcoCities vs. Smart Cities
The second Ecocity Focus Lab will be held March 13 to 16, 2018 in Chennai, India. The focus is on exploring the differences and similarities between “ecocities” and...
Cusco, Peru: A Participatory Approach to Creating a Healthy Urban Metabolism
This is the first entry in a series entitled “Urban Metabolism: Shifting city resource flows from linear toward circular,” a collaboration by the Global Initiative for...
Indigenous Wisdom and the Peripheries of Calculation: Reflections on Ecocity 2017 in Melbourne
In 2005, I read Richard Register’s Ecocities in my community development class and just a few months later began as a student intern. The world has made much progress with the...
Three Days of Sessions at Ecocity 2017
Day One We gathered at the Melbourne Convention Centre for the Ecocity World Summit in a place where for over the tens of thousand of years the Kulin First Peoples have lived as...
Sustainable Melbourne – A Personal Journey during Ecocity 2017
Deciding on whether to join my husband Sven on a work trip to attend the Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne, Australia this summer, a handful of pros outweighed the cons rather...
Ecocity Standards Headline Indicators
At the first Ecocity Focus Lab held in Vancouver in November 2016, participants worked on confirming headline indicators for the International Ecocity Standards. A report was...
Ecocity Standards, Indicators and Performance Benchmarks
The Ecocity Standards describe 18 conditions of an ecocity (www.ecocitystandards.org). Indicators are used to measure the condition being described within each standard and...