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...
Category - Ecocity Philosophy
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...
Building A Sustainable Future, Brick by Brick
I have recently been thinking a lot about what sustainability means to me, and what experiences have shaped my definition of this term. As an environmental studies major, we use...
MYTH: Countries Should First Get Rich, Then Worry about Health and the Environment
Excerpt from Beyond Apologies, Defining and Achieving an Economics of Wellbeing by Debra Efroymson Debra Efroymson is Regional Director of the Canadian NGO HealthBridge. She has...
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...