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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,...
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Equity

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...
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Development

A Practical and Actionable Pathway to Address Digital Inequities Today

September 9, 2020
The unprecedented COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally changed how the world works, learns and interacts.  With shelter-in-place and social distancing requirements,...
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Sustainability

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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Equity

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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Development

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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Development

EcoDistricts Certified: In a Challenging Era, 11 Communities Step Up

July 31, 2017
Today, 11 communities in 10 cities across North America committed to a landmark new standard for community development that makes...
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Sustainability

Welcome to EcoDistricts Certification

December 1, 2015
By Adam Beck, Director of Innovation Next Generation Leadership Recognition and Industry Collaboration Imagine if urban regeneration project certification schemes...
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Development

Top Ten Trends in Urban Regeneration in 2015

February 12, 2015
The sharing economy is booming. Urban placemaking has taken a foothold. Green buildings abound in most US cities. There are...
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Sustainability
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