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Jon Waterhouse paddling a canoe.

From Alaska with love: Aid helps African clinic recover from fire

Editor’s Note: Jon Waterhouse is 2012 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award honoree and a National Geographic Explorer. Through his international Healing Journey, he has connected with people around the world, including the people of South Sudan featured in this post, which …

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January 25, 2013 01 October 2014

Reflection on glass building with multicolor painting behind

A quantum leap in green building

By Dennis Hayes Sometimes, incremental innovations can’t produce quantum change. You can tinker with carbon paper forever without producing a photocopier. The quill pen did not lead to a typewriter, and not a single typewriter company evolved to personal computers. …

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January 18, 2013 29 July 2016

Jon Waterhouse giving a talk behind a podium.

Jon Waterhouse: On power and leadership

Indigenous leader Jon Waterhouse shares some thoughts on the interaction of power and leadership.

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November 2, 2012 01 October 2014

Solar roof in Portland, Oregon

A fresh approach to cooling the planet

By James Boyce and Manuel Pastor. Cross-posted on Triple Crisis. There is good news and bad news about the clean energy transition. The good news is that half the new electric generating capacity installed worldwide in 2008-2010 was renewable. The …

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October 18, 2012 01 October 2014

2012 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award honorees

Ecotrust announces five Indigenous Leadership Award winners

By Emma Deans Ecotrust is proud to announce the winners of the 11th annual Indigenous Leadership Award, an honor bestowed on exceptional Native leaders who are working throughout the region to improve the social, economic, and environmental conditions of their homelands …

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October 9, 2012 01 October 2014

Transport revolutions: Viva Las Vegas?

Editor’s note: Writer and urban planner Tim Sullivan traveled the West this spring by bike, bus, foot and several other non-auto modes, as part of a journey to discover how revolutions in transportation are changing the region. He’s at work …

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June 27, 2012 01 October 2014

Streetcar in Portland.

Ecodistricts bring new life to North American cities

By Rob Bennett Last month, leaders from Austin, Bellingham, Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Guadalajara (Mexico), Mountain View, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Vancouver (B.C.) gathered at Ecotrust in Portland for the first-ever EcoDistricts Institute, a meeting to examine neighborhood-scale development projects in each of their cities. …

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June 19, 2012 01 October 2014

A view of Portland, Oregon from the Broadway Bridge

A walking tour of resilience in Portland

By Tim Gibbins In the past twenty years, geologists have determined that the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile-long fault off the Northwest coast, is overdue for a major earthquake. The last major quake was on January 26th, 1700 on the …

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June 11, 2012 01 October 2014