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EcoDistricts Community Blooms in 2020
February 24, 2021
2020 proved to be a watershed year for the EcoDistricts Accredited Professional (AP) program, growing by an extraordinary 350% in...
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What is EcoDistricts Thinking? A Lay Person’s Guide
November 10, 2020
Every year, on December 26, my wife’s side of the family gets together to celebrate Christmas. Like most families, ours...
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Networks ≠Organizations: Let’s all lean into the difference!
November 10, 2020
I spent nearly my whole first year as Executive Director of CONNECT (Congress of Neighboring Communities) in the Greater Pittsburgh...
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Grassroots: Equitable Environmental Leadership By and For the People
November 10, 2020
Photography by Nanci Goldberg Over the past few years, I have had the honor of working with my fellow...
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How Racial Justice and COVID are Shaping the EcoDistricts Movement
September 9, 2020
In our resiliency and EcoDistricts practice, we perform thought experiments to imagine futures that, while possible, seem exceptionally unlikely. We...
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Building Beloved Community: An EcoDistricts AP Considers Her Work
September 3, 2020
Home A large bur oak graces my front yard:Â with a double trunk, about 35 feet tall, she casts a...
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The Long and Winding Road: EcoDistricts’ Puts Racial Equity at the Core of its Work
February 13, 2020
Our cities are at a crossroads. Across the world, cities are undergoing massive transformations fueled in part by an unprecedented...
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Just Green: Liz Ogbu and Kofi Boone Issue a Clarion Call for Framing a New Era in Community Building at the EcoDistricts Summit
December 9, 2019
Frank talk. Liz Ogbu of Studio O in Oakland and Kofi Boone, professor of landscape architecture at North Carolina State...
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EcoDistricts Honors 12 Sustainable Development Practitioners & Cutting Edge Neighborhood Projects
December 3, 2019
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the EcoDistricts Summit, EcoDistricts launched a new recognition program called EcoDistricts Citymakers Awards to...
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