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What on Earth is an Ecocity?

August 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

This guest post from CitiSven (A World of Words) discusses the work being done to develop an international standard for EcoCities. Some of you may be familiar with my diaries about ecocities. From Venice and Istanbul to West Oakland, I’ve written about urban areas within an ecocity context, and I’m about to launch another series […]

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Tags: Energy · environmental · guest post · sustainability

WashPost/NY Times: To Subscribe or Unsubscribe, that is the question.

August 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Like composting, newspaper reading was something absorbed while is in the womb. For much of my childhood, the Siegel clan had a morning and afternoon paper along with several local weeklies and national magazines. (Yes, college marketing matters: pa Siegel is still subscribing to Newsweek, come hell and high water, more than 50 years after […]

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