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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...
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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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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 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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EcoDistricts AP Spotlight: Donna Hope
August 9, 2018
Donna Hope, EcoDistricts AP, MScEng, and LEED Green Associate, is a freelance environmental consultant with a focus on diversity, equity and...
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EcoDistricts Summit 2018: Reimagining the Twin Cities
March 29, 2018
This fall, the EcoDistricts Summit is heading to Minneapolis and St. Paul, two dynamic cities with complex histories, unique architecture,...
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Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town
February 1, 2018
Can Partnership Between Neighborhood Civic Organizations and the City of Cape Town Help Reverse Decades of Spatial Apartheid? On November...
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Some Hard Truths About Infrastructure
October 5, 2017
By Douglass Sims, Natural Resources Defense Council When our country was first being built, our vision of infrastructure was one...
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