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09/30/2021

After nearly 2 years of research, design, and development, we are proud to launch our new race equity training course: Centering Racial Equity in EcoDistricts. This 3-part course is now required learning for all new and existing AP seeking recredentialing.

Explore all of the new content and register for the new training course
https://mailchi.mp/ecodistricts/neighborhoods-for-all-ecodistricts-in-the-face-of-covid-2784820

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Over the past two years, EcoDistricts has been on an organizational journey to prioritize racial equity more purposefully. Challenged by a growing number of inspired leaders demanding that racial equity be centered in all urban planning, design, and development decision making, we recognized that th...

06/22/2021

If you missed last week's webinar, Centering Equity in a Building Project: Meyer Memorial Trust HQ in Portland, featuring Anyeley Hallova, be sure to watch our webinar recording.

EcoDistricts AP can email Teva Needleman at [email protected] to receive CEU certificates for watching recorded EcoDistricts webinars.

05/26/2021

Happening TODAY "Collaboration for Equitable Change
ETOD in Chicago" 11 AM PST//2PM EST

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Collaboration for Equitable Change: ETOD in Chicago. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

11/10/2020

Today we were able to publish 4 which we will be highlighting over the next few days. We start off with Irwin Lowenstein's piece "Healthier Cities for All: Can We Distribute Health and Wellbeing Equitably?"
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There has long been a paradox at the heart of healthcare in Cleveland, Ohio. While home to some of the best medical care in the world, Cleveland’s own neighborhoods experience some of the poorest of health outcomes. Now, one of Cleveland’s “big three” healthcare titans is pursuing pacesettin...

10/28/2020

EcoDistricts are a hyper-local model of urban planning is focused on equity and environmental justice. The certification process can take years.

09/28/2020

Our next installment of comes from EcoDistrict AP Kristen Fulmer who has been working on The Bridge in Harrisburg, PA.

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“One of the main missions of The Bridge is to set people up for success who normally wouldn’t have the opportunity simply because they didn’t have the basic means to get there- nutritious food, a safe home, a useful education, love and support, everything a person needs to be set up for a succ...

09/09/2020

Proud to launch our Stories from the Ground series with Towerside: Minneapolis-Saint Paul's Innovation District's Tracy Nordstrom's piece "Building Beloved Community: An EcoDistricts AP Considers Her Work" looking at how her work intersects with the greater social movement in Minneapolis.

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Home A large bur oak graces my front yard: with a double trunk, about 35 feet tall, she casts a shady and cooling radius all around. My tree is 115 years old, as old as my house. Her inner rings mark both environmental and human time. Think of what has happened in her lifetime: seasons …

09/02/2020

EcoDistricts is thrilled to be joined by Kofi Boone, Professor of Landscape Architecture at North Carolina State University, for our next EcoDistricts Webinar on September 14. Kofi is a powerful voice in the design industry, focusing much of his work and scholarship on the intersection of ecological design and racial justice. His work is helping to reimagine resilience and landscape design through the lens of equity and the Black Lives Matter movement. Kofi brought down the house with his pointed and poignant closing keynote at the 2019 EcoDistricts 2019 Summit in Pittsburgh. We wanted to have him back again to share his work and wisdom during a critical time in our country’s history.

From the ongoing COVID pandemic to the rebellions that have gripped communities around the world in the aftermath of the recent police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Jacob Blake, there is a growing push to address systemic inequities in our environments. What might this mean for landscape architecture and the emerging resiliency movement? Kofi will frame the topic of resilience as a means to acknowledge the need for nurturing human resilience through ecological design.

Register today:
https://bit.ly/3hRbnao

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Notes on Resilience. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

07/16/2020

Thank you to everyone who was able to participate in yesterday's webinar. If you were unable to make it to Julian Agyeman's incredible webinar (or you just want to watch it again), you can watch Just Sustainabilities in Urban Planning and Practice here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/8988711374997954311

07/13/2020

Registration ends in just 2 days, so be sure to secure your spot for EcoDistricts' upcoming Webinar Wednesday: Just Sustainabilities in Urban Planning and Practice with Julian Agyeman on July 15th at 11 AM PST 2 PM EST. Register here: bit.ly/3fX9Xti

Get to know the speaker: watch Julian discuss the need for innovation in livelihoods, not lifestyles with HERE Technologies. Watch the video: https://lnkd.in/ex8g7YA

Professor Julian Agyeman shares his vision on the future of urban mobility. Can fairer access create more inclusive cities? Watch the video today.