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Reclaiming Resilience: How Small Shifts in City Hall Can Empower Communities
October 13, 2025
Across the country, communities of color are pioneering resilience in real time—transforming vacant lots into food forests, converting churches into...
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How City Governments Can Institutionalize Regenerative Principles
June 29, 2025
As climate disruption, economic instability, and social inequities converge, city governments are on the front lines of shaping resilient and...
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From Devastation to Renewal: How Camp Hill, Alabama Applied Resiliency Planning to Overcome Tragedy
January 13, 2025
Partnering in a Time of Turmoil In 2023, Dr. Megan LaFrombois of Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape...
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Slavic Village in Cleveland Becomes the 9th EcoDistricts Certified Community
December 1, 2023
Broadway-Slavic Village is a place where grit meets green. Our most valuable asset is our people, from the small business...
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Just Communities: The Evolution of EcoDistricts
October 6, 2023
Today is a big day for those of us who have poured our hearts into building and growing the EcoDistricts...
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A New Chapter for EcoDistricts Begins
January 7, 2022
I am thrilled to share important news regarding the future of EcoDistricts. We are joining Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE), an Atlanta-based NGO that...
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Cross-sector partners join forces to make Cleveland home of the first hospital-anchored certified EcoDistrict
December 16, 2021
Government, philanthropy, and resident leaders teamed with The MetroHealth System in the creation of the Clark-Fulton/MetroHealth EcoDistrict, implementing a paradigm...
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A Decade of Building Community in San Francisco’s Chinatown
October 6, 2021
In 2017-2018, I hit two milestones in my life. The first was my 10-year anniversary of doing place-based, community-based planning...
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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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