Author Archive: The Just Communities Team

EcoDistricts Honors 12 Sustainable Development Practitioners & Cutting Edge Neighborhood Projects

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the EcoDistricts Summit, EcoDistricts launched a new recognition program called EcoDistricts Citymakers Awards to...

A New Approach to Economic Development: Portland’s Innovation Quadrant

In a city known for its innovative land use and transportation investments, the city is at it again. The Portland...

Get to Know EcoDistricts Certified with Katy Ricchiuto

Over the past generation, city leaders, housing and real estate providers, civic entrepreneurs, environmentalists, social justice activists, public policy makers,...

Incubator Goes to Millvale, PA

On April 24, a diverse group of community and urban development leaders packed into the Millvale Food & Energy Hub...

EcoDistricts Certified Welcomes Four New Neighborhoods to Growing Cohort

Two years ago, we launched EcoDistricts Certified, the world’s only verification platform that helps neighborhood teams embed equity, resilience and...

EcoDistricts Goes to South Africa: Lessons Learned from Johannesburg and Cape Town Low Emissions Program

In 2017, South Africa was gripped by an emerging climate crisis that would begin to threaten the economy and political...

EcoDistricts AP Spotlight: Walter Fieuw

Walter Fieuw, is the Founder & Principal Consultant at Making of Cities, a niche urban and regional development consultancy pushing...