When Americans move from one city to another, they’re usually looking for economic opportunity or warmer, steadier weather. When corporations look for a new location, they’ve got much longer wish lists—and cities compete to give them what they want. For the many cities entering the contest…
read more »
October 19, 2017 | Adaptive Futures, Cities, Compact Development, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban TransformationSustainable development, impact real estate, smart growth, equitable development. Whatever you want to call it, I’d like to suggest it really starts with housing, which is currently in a crisis mode. Having moved back to Boulder in 2016 after five years in San Francisco, I can…
read more »
October 19, 2017 | Biophilic Immersion, Carbon-Free Advantage, Cities, Compact Development, Ecosystem Management, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban Transformation
Until the summer of 2016, I spent the first 25 years of my career in the non-profit sector advocating, teaching, lawyering, writing and entrepreneuring for social change as sustainable communities. I built two successful non-profits from scratch, both Boston-based and dedicated to greening low-income neighborhoods and…
read more »
Copenhagen’s vision for 2025, “Co-Create Copenhagen,” integrates its climate action strategies for GHG reduction and climate-change adaptation with a broader approach to the city’s development in the 21st century. This approach is not unique among leading-edge climate innovation cities, but CPH has been at it for…
read more »
“Our urban freeways were almost always routed through low-income and minority neighborhoods, creating disconnections from opportunity that exist to this day.”
August 17, 2017 | Books, Circular Economy, Consumption Reduction, Urban Transformation, Zero Waste
“Our lifestyles, and their social and environmental consequences, should be the subject of serious public debate and policy, not left as a matter simply of individual taste and purchasing power. . . . Such a debate has to be bold and envisage different lifestyles and the…
read more »
Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from our team.