The Just Communities Blog

News and Updates from Our Team

  • Development
  • Equity
  • Planning
  • Resilience
  • Sustainability

5 Ways Communities Are Driving Change From the Ground Up

September 14, 2025
Across the country, communities are stepping up to lead the way toward more just, equitable, and regenerative futures. These grassroots...
Read This Post

EcoDistricts Launches a New Online Course for EcoDistricts APs: Centering Racial Equity in Urban & Community Development

September 29, 2021
“The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,...
Read This Post

EcoDistricts: The Path Forward

April 29, 2021
It would be difficult for me to overstate the value of the EcoDistricts Protocol in our current moment. The challenges...
Read This Post

A Note to EcoDistricts APs on Pitching EcoDistricts

March 31, 2021
EcoDistricts Program Manager, Teva Needleman, called me a few weeks ago and asked me to speak as part of the...
Read This Post

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...
Read This Post

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...
Read This Post
1-6 of 6