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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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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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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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