
Time: March 31, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: The Commons
Street: 388 Atlantic Avenue (between Hoyt & Bond)
City/Town: Brooklyn, NY
Website or Map: http://www.ecocitybuilders.or…
Event Type: lecture
Organized By: The Commons
Latest Activity: Mar 27, 2010
No Wars and No Cars --
Ecocities according to Richard Register
In an ecocity, residents live a good life while using minimal natural resources. Buildings make best use of sun, wind and rainfall. Natural habitat corridors foster biodiversity and give residents access to nature. Food and other goods are sourced from within the bioregion. Most residents walk or cycle to work, and take public transportation when they need to travel further. Car-sharing allows people to use a car only when needed. The labor-intensive economy maintains full employment and minimizes energy and water inputs. Goods are designed for reuse, remanufacture, and recycling; and production is designed to reuse by-products and minimize transport.
Ecocities will be exciting and rewarding places to live, communities that will foster humanity's creative and compassionate evolution on a healthy Earth.
Cost: $15 Purchase tickets here.
Richard Register is founder of Ecocity Builders and author of EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature
For more than thirty years he has been initiating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers. He travels incessantly and has circled the planet dozens of times speaking about ecological design, but it’s been a decade since Register visited New York. Check out his website:
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