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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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Building Beloved Community: An EcoDistricts AP Considers Her Work
September 3, 2020
Home A large bur oak graces my front yard: with a double trunk, about 35 feet tall, she casts a...
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We Stand for Racial Equity: a Message from EcoDistricts' Board and Staff
June 3, 2020
We are at a crossroads. We stand in solidarity with Black activists that demand swift and substantial changes to policing,...
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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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