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Ecodistricts Summit will work on smarter, more resilient cities

The Portland Sustainability Institute will host the 2012 Ecodistricts Summit October 23- 26, as part of the ongoing effort to build smarter, more resilient, and more livable urban districts across the world. Policymakers, planners, developers, business leaders, and financers from around …

Emma Deans
October 11, 2012 07 May 2020

Man standing in front of graffiti wall in Detroit

Resilience on the Brightmoor Farmway

In Spencer Beebe’s recent post “Confluence,” he mentioned Earthworks Urban Farm as an example of the regeneration of Detroit. It’s far from the only example. Ten miles away on the other side of the city, Sam and I saw urban …

Noah Enelow
August 23, 2012 01 October 2014

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Confluence: Where cities and mountains meet

Over the past few weeks, my son Sam and I have been navigating different tributaries in the Magic Canoe’s voyage of discovery. Sam, with companion and Ecotrust economist Noah Enelow visited Detroit to chronicle stories of regeneration after industrial collapse. …

Spencer B. Beebe
August 15, 2012 01 October 2014

Software for 21st-century decisions

How will we all thrive on a densely populated, rapidly changing planet? For over twenty years, Ecotrust has been tackling this question, through the creation of innovative mapping and software solutions that bridge different perspectives on land and ocean use. …

Tim Welch
July 10, 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 …

guest
June 27, 2012 01 October 2014

Solar panels on top of the roof of the NCC building in portland. go by train sigh visible.

Bottom-Up: New directions for climate at Rio+20

In 2009, I published a book with Graciela Chichilnisky, Saving Kyoto (New Holland 2009), that argued passionately for preserving the economic and political architecture of the only international treaty on climate change the world has known – the Kyoto Protocol. …

Kristen Sheeran
June 21, 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. …

guest
June 19, 2012 07 May 2020

Dickey River as seen from airplane

Partnering with nature: How one city’s growth could be greened

Human life depends on the services provided by healthy ecosystems. As described in the UN-backed Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, these services include the provisioning of resources such as food, fiber, and raw materials; regulating services such as water filtration, storm buffering, …

Brent Davies
May 1, 2012 07 May 2020