Resources

Green Lunch!

Her name is Cynthia Neftin, and she is the owner of Oxnard, California-based Café Nefola, whose motto is “healthy, local, fresh and natural.” An additional tag line – “from fat to fit, this is it” – leaves no doubt as to the restaurant’s orientation.[read more]

District energy systems/shutterstock

District energy planning embodies a paradigm shift in urban planning which includes utility services as a component of community development. As district energy is reimagined in the city planning process, new models of development, governance, and financing are being considered for these systems.[read more]

Solar Home

A Reddit thread once asked what would humanity do if they had an unlimited source of renewable energy. With tongue only partly in cheek, I responded that such energy existed already.[read more]

Development in Mozambique

 

While Mozambique’s economic indicators signal triumphant growth, it is clear on the ground that growth in GDP is not the same as development. Billions in investment won't help a population when its benefits are restricted to small elite.[read more]

Water Purification Costs

An inexpensive new material made of clay and papaya seeds removes harmful metals from water and could lower the cost of providing clean water to millions of people in the developing world.[read more]

Improving Public Spaces

Food trucks are all the rage these days. Go-To tools for urban designers, aspiring restaurateurs and festival planners, they are seen as a relatively quick and easy way to activate spaces.[read more]

Helsinki Green Lease

Green leasing news here in North America has been generally hard to come by thus far in 2013, but some interesting activity continues abroad. These foreign transactions involving environmental obligations are instructive for us to consider.[read more]

ideas for sustainable cities

A new ‘toolbox’ is put together annually by the Danish organisation Sustainia, aiming to differentiate itself from other sustainability awards by focusing exclusively on solutions that are available today.[read more]

new urban planning for Asia?

To Huang, global warming and the energy crisis go hand in hand. He believes that China needs to go toward a transit-oriented and sustainable urban form. High speed rail oriented city clusters (or TOD, transit oriented development) are his goal for China.[read more]

Logo from NYIT Energy Conference

Sustainable Cities Collective will be covering the NYIT Energy conference Thursday, 6/13, from 9-4 pm. Follow us @sustaincities ! The “NYIT Energy Conference: Preparing for Climate Change”- will cover emerging topics in energy storage, resilient infrastructure, and emergency preparedness for cities around the globe.[read more]

veggie swap

Beyond the act of growing, eating and community building, the project also aims to teach people about carbon-free food storage as well as composting and food waste recycling.[read more]

Vietnamese farmers

New Orleans' Vietnamese community of fishermen was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and then the Deepwater Horizon debacle but found ways to come together and come back with sustainable urban farming.[read more]