Faced with the rising costs of business-as-usual, Seattle building owners and property managers are coming together to prove that sustainability is not only better for society and the environment, it’s profitable too! The Seattle 2030 District is creating a collaborative model for how to build a vibrant “green” economy, with the hope that other cities will follow their lead.
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RACE TO ZERO CITY seeks a “village of storytellers” to incite the race to create the first carbon neutral city in North America by 2030. In a Pecha Kucha presentation delivered tonight in Seattle, the team rolled out their theory that stories are central to the acceleration of massive change and offered up ZERO CITY’s first story assignment…
Your assignment, should you chose to accept it: Tell Your Story of the Future of Your City.
How? Using your mobile phone, create a photo montage, video interview, poem, message–whatever you’d like–and send to racetozerocity(at)gmail.com.
Share your story and be a catalyst in doubling the speed of change you want to see!
The race to build a zero-carbon city is on…but what does that mean? The provocative and challenging question for any city taking on the challenge of carbon neutrality is: How do you define carbon neutral?
Seattle is grappling with this question and has enlisted the talents of the Stockholm Environment Institute to help them answer it by the end of this year. Back in 2008, Bloomberg Business Week explored several (more…)
Seattle is poised to lead the race to create a new urban way of life, but can it overcome the obstacles it will face along the way? Will a competitor city, like Portland, San Francisco, Austin, New York, or Vancouver get to the finish line first? And whichever city first claims the Carbon Neutral title, will it happen soon enough to make a difference?
Why create a carbon neutral city? The short story is that carbon emitted into the atmosphere by human activities is jeopardizing the ability for people and other living things to live and thrive on the planet. With over (more…)
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