Thoughts

our ideas from the intersection of sustainability and the built environment

Books and Other Media You Should Check Out This Year

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As we begin the new year, our team is reflecting on great reads to inspire, activate, and entertain you. Just for fun, we’ve decided to share our list of books and other media for you to check out in 2020 (see below). Here’s to a new decade of open minds, open hearts, and open books!

Citymakers Awards Honor evolveEA and Ecodistrict Partners

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The inaugural award ceremony identified pioneers creating sustainable communities at the 10th annual EcoDistricts Summit in November 2019.

Measuring Our Impact: evolve’s 2017 Report

evolveEA is dedicated to Triple Bottom Line success: we measure the impact of our business not only in terms of the economy, but also the environment and social equity. Mission-driven organizations are challenged to find ways to assess our impact that go beyond conventional business metrics and financial reporting standards

ART+PLACE: The Roots of Community Identity

Art can knit together the lived experience of neighborhood identity with long term and sometimes abstract principles of community development. The Pittsburgh community of Larimer has been cultivating a local culture of sustainability through ecodistrict planning and has used art and creative placemaking to build capacity around neighborhood stormwater issues, urban agriculture and economic development.

Why we’re excited about Rail~Volution 2017

Rail~Volution returns to Denver in 2017 and in the short time since 2000, Denver has been transformed from a car-required public transit desert into a car-optional multimodal public transit leader.