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We are a non-profit organization dedicated to reshaping cities for the long-term health of human and natural systems.
Our Mission: to rebuild cities in balance with nature
Our Objective: working through ecological design, planning, education and advocacy
Our goals include returning healthy biodiversity to the heart of our cities, agriculture to community gardens and the streets, and convenience and pleasure to walking, bicycling and transit.
We work to build thriving city and neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl development; to build whole cities based on human needs and “access by proximity” rather than cities built in the current pattern of automobile driven excess, wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere.
We visualize a future in which waterways in neighborhood environments and prosperous downtown centers are opened for curious children and native plants and animals.
Our palette for painting this future includes pedestrian streets, car-free buildings, “keyhole plazas” [plazas and squares with an opening to celebrated views], mid-block pedestrian passageways, bridges between buildings and buildings that are bridges over pedestrian streets. We promote rooftops with gardens, restaurants and public places with spectacular views to the local bioregion. Our organization represents more than an inspired vision of a vibrant future: Ecocity Builders is also equipped with an abundance of original ideas and urban reshaping tools, along with considerable experience working to create that vision.
Through our educational materials, newsletters, activist mailers, conferences [both local and international] we promote and help create the built human habitat in balance with living systems. Through hands-on projects in our community we build pieces of the real thing. Join in! Only together will we succeed.
Our Mission: to rebuild cities in balance with nature
Our Objective: working through ecological design, planning, education and advocacy
Our goals include returning healthy biodiversity to the heart of our cities, agriculture to community gardens and the streets, and convenience and pleasure to walking, bicycling and transit.
We work to build thriving city and neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl development; to build whole cities based on human needs and “access by proximity” rather than cities built in the current pattern of automobile driven excess, wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere.
We visualize a future in which waterways in neighborhood environments and prosperous downtown centers are opened for curious children and native plants and animals.
Our palette for painting this future includes pedestrian streets, car-free buildings, “keyhole plazas” [plazas and squares with an opening to celebrated views], mid-block pedestrian passageways, bridges between buildings and buildings that are bridges over pedestrian streets. We promote rooftops with gardens, restaurants and public places with spectacular views to the local bioregion. Our organization represents more than an inspired vision of a vibrant future: Ecocity Builders is also equipped with an abundance of original ideas and urban reshaping tools, along with considerable experience working to create that vision.
Through our educational materials, newsletters, activist mailers, conferences [both local and international] we promote and help create the built human habitat in balance with living systems. Through hands-on projects in our community we build pieces of the real thing. Join in! Only together will we succeed.
