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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: with a double trunk, about 35 feet tall, she casts a...
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Community Driven Sustainability in the Rust Belt
February 13, 2020
Pittsburgh and Cleveland projects get big boost with EcoDistricts Incubator It’s Day 1, the first morning of the EcoDistricts...
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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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A New Approach to Economic Development: Portland’s Innovation Quadrant
September 9, 2019
In a city known for its innovative land use and transportation investments, the city is at it again. The Portland...
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Get to Know EcoDistricts Certified with Katy Ricchiuto
June 17, 2019
Over the past generation, city leaders, housing and real estate providers, civic entrepreneurs, environmentalists, social justice activists, public policy makers,...
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Incubator Goes to Millvale, PA
April 30, 2019
On April 24, a diverse group of community and urban development leaders packed into the Millvale Food & Energy Hub...
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EcoDistricts Certified Welcomes Four New Neighborhoods to Growing Cohort
April 30, 2019
Two years ago, we launched EcoDistricts Certified, the world’s only verification platform that helps neighborhood teams embed equity, resilience and...
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EcoDistricts Goes to South Africa: Lessons Learned from Johannesburg and Cape Town Low Emissions Program
February 14, 2019
In 2017, South Africa was gripped by an emerging climate crisis that would begin to threaten the economy and political...
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EcoDistricts AP Spotlight: Walter Fieuw
December 13, 2018
Walter Fieuw, is the Founder & Principal Consultant at Making of Cities, a niche urban and regional development consultancy pushing...
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