The Just Communities Blog

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...

Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

Can Partnership Between Neighborhood Civic Organizations and the City of Cape Town Help Reverse Decades of Spatial Apartheid? On November...

Building Our Beloved Communities at the EcoDistricts Summit

Three weeks ago, 300 leading urban and community development practitioners descended on Atlanta for the 2017 EcoDistricts Summit, a spirited and inspiring gathering on the...