In 1994, the Berkeley City Council endorsed a strategy to create jobs and improve environmental quality by promoting green business and encouraging Berkeley's "environmental economy"^{¶ Δ §} (Council Resolution 57,393). This resolution has helped the City of Berkeley promote sustainable development ^{Δ §} and integrate environmental protection with economic growth and job development.

Office of Economic Development: Sustainable Berkeley

Center for Environmental Design ^{Δ §} Research

Environmental Economy Program^{¶ Δ §}

Center for Neighborhood Technology Community Energy Services Corp.

Berkeley EcoHouse Demo Project

The Green Resource Center

Ecocity Builders

In 1950 Curitiba's population was 300,000. By 1990 it had exploded to 2.1 million. What this city did in pioneering Community Economic Development^{¶ Δ} has become The premier model cited extensively in Natural Capitalism's^{¶ Δ §} Chapter 14 - Human Capitalism

Center for Environmental Design

Curitiba and Hope‡ by Bill McKibben

Curitiba, Brazil - by Michael O. Patterson‡

Curitiba, Brazil: Three decades of thoughtful city planning‡

Dongtan Eco-city, Shanghai, China ~ Start Date: 23 August 2005

At three quarters the size of Manhattan and located on the third largest island in China at the mouth of the Yangtse river, Dongtan will be developed on 630 hectares of land as a sustainable city to attract a range of commercial and leisure investments.

Ecologically sensitive design will be a key element of the masterplan. The site is mostly agricultural land adjacent to a huge wetland of global importance. This will be a significant opportunity to apply our integrated sustainability and urban planning expertise to the benefit of the eco-city.

Dongtan Eco-city :: East Asia :: Arup

Eco-City :: China is building its first eco-city which will generate its own power, be self-sustaining, and pollution free.

DONGTAN - ECO-CITY

China to Build First Eco-City‡

London's efforts were catalyzed by a pivotal conference celebrating the city's bicentennial which formed part of a process to envision the community over the coming century. A number of creative eco-city^{¶ Δ} initiatives have emerged from London.

London Environmental & Economic Development Cooperative (LEED)

London Green Communities Initiative

Life*Spin

Environmental Management Resource Centre for Business (EMRCB)

London Community Small Business Centre

Green Business Checkup

Recycling Markets Directory

An Eco-Tech Village for Milton: Considerations for Policy‡ ^Δ - This April 2001 paper commissioned by the Town of Milton Ontario, written by David Amborski and Nina-Marie Lister of Ryerson University School of Urban and Planning, sets out the perameters for establishing a leading edge sustainable community that adheres to Ahwahnee principles and the aspirations of Agenda 21.

Implementation Options Report: An Eco-Tech Village for Milton‡ ^Δ - A follow-up paper to An Eco-Tech Village for Milton: Considerations for Policy.

Town of Milton Eco-Tech Village Pilot Project Urban Design Charette: Making Choices Toward Sustainability‡ ^Δ

In 1997, Queensland's Integrated Planning Act set out to seek to achieve ecological sustainability by:

(a) coordinating and integrating planning at the local, regional and State levels; and

(b) managing the process by which development occurs; and

(c) managing the effects of development on the environment (including managing the use of premises).

Here are links to a few proposed and underway undertakings to Townsville Council:

• Urban Development
• The Strand Wind Project^{¶ Δ §}
• Townsville State High School Sustainability Program
• The Other Hand Your Sustainable Alternative
• Townsville Bikeways

In 1992 Waitakere City formally adopted Agenda 21^{¶ Δ} and became New Zealand's first eco-city, the primary goal of which is to "consider our children and their children in all that we do, and working towards achieving a sustainable city" (Strategy and Development Unit 1994:3). ~ Source: Culture Dynamics in Waitakere City New Zealand, Chapter 10 of 'Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet' edited by Mark Roseland of CEDO - the Community Economic Development^{¶ Δ} Centre, British Columbia.

Note! Since Waitakere adopted Maori indigenous concepts of resource management, special Maori terms are used throughout their materials.

Each Waitakere City Council webpage offers additional links. Here are a few of interest:

• Eco City^{¶ Δ}
• Agenda 21^{¶ Δ}
• Eco Initiatives
• Greenprint Strategy
• Eco Hospital
• Eco House
• Urban Revitalization^{¶ Δ §}
• Earth Song Eco-Neighborhood
• Eco Links

Sustainable Communities Network Case Study Map & Index

This is the index from which you may access the Sustainable Communities ^{Δ §} Network case studies.

Internet Conference on EcoCity Developments has an impressive number of papers worth looking over.

See also Sustainable Communities & Initiatives

• American
• Canadian