“Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?” is the subject line of an email I recently received from...
Author - Sven Eberlein
Separated in San Francisco
There are very few situations in life in which the idea of being separated would seem attractive...
Building urban knowledge systems from the bottom up
A few weeks ago, my Ecocity Builders colleagues traveled to our pilot city partners in...
Springtime at Joshua Tree National Park
As National Park Week is coming to an end, I thought I’d share some of the photos I took last week...
The European case for selfishness, or how to transform a burst...
An article posted a few weeks ago at The Atlantic entitled What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic...
The chance the Birdie missed (but is still within grasp of a...
Which doesn’t belong in the picture above? By now, everyone has seen the iconic photo of the...
The Winter Beet: Why I’m still an optimist…
Solstice Greetings! It’s been a while since my last dip into the beet spread, so with the sun...
Postcard from Abu Dhabi: On the Road to Masdar City, Desert...
Last month saw the 11th edition of the International Ecocity Conference Series that was first held...
Carsick Planet, Part 3: Get around. Not too fast. Mostly walk.
The previous segment of this series left off discussing how lifestyle choices, infrastructure, and...
Carsick Planet, Part 2: Reducing the fleet through personal...
If indeed the continued proliferation of the personal automobile is not compatible with the future...