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  • Author: Teva Needleman

    We Stand for Racial Equity: a Message from EcoDistricts’ Board and Staff

    June 3, 2020
    By Teva Needleman
    We are at a crossroads. We stand in solidarity with Black activists that demand swift and substantial changes to policing, criminal justice, and community investment. We acknowledge that our white-dominant profession has long been complacent in denying Black people the...Read More

    Community Driven Sustainability in the Rust Belt

    February 13, 2020
    By Teva Needleman
    Pittsburgh and Cleveland projects get big boost with EcoDistricts Incubator   It’s Day 1, the first morning of the EcoDistricts Incubator at the Millvale Moose in Millvale, PA, a former fraternal lodge in a Pittsburgh suburb across the river from...Read More

    The Long and Winding Road: EcoDistricts’ Puts Racial Equity at the  Core of its Work

    February 13, 2020
    By Teva Needleman
    Our cities are at a crossroads. Across the world, cities are undergoing massive transformations fueled in part by an unprecedented amount of capital that is fundamentally changing the fabric of our society. In short, as geographer David Harvey says, we...Read More

    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
    By Teva Needleman
    Frank talk.  Liz Ogbu of Studio O in Oakland and Kofi Boone, professor of landscape architecture at North Carolina State University, keynoted the 2019 EcoDistricts Summit with a very clear message to the 300 urban sustainability leaders assembled at the...Read More

    EcoDistricts Honors 12 Sustainable Development Practitioners & Cutting Edge Neighborhood Projects

    December 3, 2019
    By Teva Needleman
    To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the EcoDistricts Summit, EcoDistricts launched a new recognition program called EcoDistricts Citymakers Awards to acknowledge and celebrate a select number of sustainable development leaders and catalytic district- and neighborhood-scale projects that are working towards...Read More

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