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Happening TODAY "Collaboration for Equitable Change
ETOD in Chicago" 11 AM PST//2PM EST

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Collaboration for Equitable Change: ETOD in Chicago. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Collaboration for Equitable Change: ETOD in Chicago. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Today we were able to publish 4 which we will be highlighting over the next few days. We start off with Irwin Lowenstein's piece "Healthier Cities for All: Can We Distribute Health and Wellbeing Equitably?"
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Healthier Cities for All: Can We Distribute Health and Wellbeing Equitably? - EcoDistricts There has long been a paradox at the heart of healthcare in Cleveland, Ohio. While home to some of the best medical care in the world, Cleveland’s own neighborhoods experience some of the poorest of health outcomes. Now, one of Cleveland’s “big three” healthcare titans is pursuing pacesettin...

What it looks like for a small town to become an EcoDistrict - City Monitor EcoDistricts are a hyper-local model of urban planning is focused on equity and environmental justice. The certification process can take years.

Our next installment of comes from EcoDistrict AP Kristen Fulmer who has been working on The Bridge in Harrisburg, PA.

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The Bridge: An Embodiment of EcoDistricts - EcoDistricts “One of the main missions of The Bridge is to set people up for success who normally wouldn’t have the opportunity simply because they didn’t have the basic means to get there- nutritious food, a safe home, a useful education, love and support, everything a person needs to be set up for a succ...

EcoDistricts is thrilled to be joined by Kofi Boone, Professor of Landscape Architecture at North Carolina State University, for our next EcoDistricts Webinar on September 14. Kofi is a powerful voice in the design industry, focusing much of his work and scholarship on the intersection of ecological design and racial justice. His work is helping to reimagine resilience and landscape design through the lens of equity and the Black Lives Matter movement. Kofi brought down the house with his pointed and poignant closing keynote at the 2019 EcoDistricts 2019 Summit in Pittsburgh. We wanted to have him back again to share his work and wisdom during a critical time in our country’s history.

From the ongoing COVID pandemic to the rebellions that have gripped communities around the world in the aftermath of the recent police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Jacob Blake, there is a growing push to address systemic inequities in our environments. What might this mean for landscape architecture and the emerging resiliency movement? Kofi will frame the topic of resilience as a means to acknowledge the need for nurturing human resilience through ecological design.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Notes on Resilience. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Notes on Resilience. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Thank you to everyone who was able to participate in yesterday's webinar. If you were unable to make it to Julian Agyeman's incredible webinar (or you just want to watch it again), you can watch Just Sustainabilities in Urban Planning and Practice here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/8988711374997954311