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Energy

Young Leader Hamza Amin: Shaping Equitable Communications for a Better Pakistan

Karl Dickinson - September 18, 2023 0

The effects of climate change are not equal everywhere. Pakistan is one of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas emitters, but it is dealing with some of the harshest consequences. With projections that it will...

Greenery

The Challenge to Making Cities Greener

Metka Novak - September 2, 2021 0

The thing about greenery is there’s more to it than just planting a bunch of trees. Peeking behind the scenes, a lot of urban planning, designing, technical research, and policy writing goes into realising...

Water

Where to Start with Urban Water Management

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023 0

Concerned with how to kick off a better water culture in your city? Whether your region is blighted by too much or too little, our guides are packed full of ideas to get you...

Skill

CityChanger Safaa Charafi: Creating Fair & Sustainable Cities with Intersectionality

Karl Dickinson - May 23, 2023 0

Cities aren’t inclusive. It’s evident in how they’re laid out, the policies that govern us, and the mindsets of inhabitants. There’s a way to change this. Mainstreaming gender and intersectionality results in more inclusive,...

Editorial

Overpopulation Is No Laughing Matter

Karl Dickinson - June 15, 2023 0

One of the rules of comedy, so I've been told, is to talk about what you know. That's why many stand-up routines over the past couple of years are based on personal accounts of COVID-19. I...

Young Leaders

Young Leader Khate Torres: Using Environmental Psychology to Create Healthy Urban Spaces

Karl Dickinson - August 21, 2023 0

Achieving climate and sustainability goals requires a willingness to change. Without this, the urban transformation would lack substance. We already have so much of the knowledge we need to make a significant impact, but,...

Greenery

How to Avoid Heat Islands with Greenery

Metka Novak - April 25, 2022 0

Have you noticed the extremely high temperatures this summer? Especially when walking around a larger city? That is because city concrete and rooftop tar contribute to temperature increase and creating what is today known...

Young Leaders

Young Leader Eva de Bruijn: How Eindhoven’s ‘Idealists’ Are Saving City Politics

Karl Dickinson - July 24, 2023 0

Politics is one realm that can open a lot of doors to sustainability in our cities. But whether it’s because they are disillusioned, disinterested, or feel excluded, many people do not use their voices...

Water

Preventing Day Zero: Lessons from Cape Town

Karl Dickinson - February 16, 2023 0

Day Zero: the moment a city’s water dries up completely. For Cape Town, this deadly scenario came too close, but it was averted thanks to collective action and decisive leadership. This story serves as...

Construction

A Just Transition: Raising Workers’ Rights in the Built Environment’s Transformation

Karl Dickinson - June 27, 2023 0

As the construction and manufacturing industries undergo a transformation to new and better ways of delivering the built spaces we need, a hidden majority is often overlooked: the sector’s workers. It’s right that we...

Skill

The Bigger Picture: How to Lead City-Wide Change

Abbie Harby - October 19, 2021 0

Adapting our buildings to be future-proof, incorporating greenery, using more sustainable materials: these are all great steps and ones to be encouraged. But, what about the bigger picture? If overall city development, urban planning,...

Skill

Young Leader Fruzsina Nagy: How To Create Change Like A Sustainability Consultant

Karl Dickinson - August 7, 2023 0

A new breed of professionals is using their hotly sought after skills to bring about social and environmental impact. Impact-oriented values are fast becoming the deciding factor in career choices, over more traditional drivers...

Construction

CityChanger Max Schade: Building a Future of Straw, Wood & Clay

Karl Dickinson - September 4, 2023 0

With public demand for sustainability snowballing, it’s inevitable every sector will undergo a green transformation. Construction, however, may not be as advanced as we thought. Max Schade from STROHBOID acts as our guide today,...

Housing

Building a Better Housing Model with the European Community Land Trust Network

Karl Dickinson - July 4, 2023 0

Fulfilling the need for quality, affordable, future-proofed housing is one of our cities’ biggest challenges. Marginalised and low-income populations need the current system to change the most. Community Land Trusts offer an equitable and...

Skill

Young Leaders Academy: Applying Transformational Knowledge as a Catalyst for Change

Karl Dickinson - May 30, 2023 0

Sharing knowledge is integral to scaling and speeding up the sustainability transformation. But are we doing it effectively? There’s a new generation of change-makers on the scene intent on improving the way knowhow is...

Young Leaders

Young Leader Kelly Delaney: Regulation’s Role in Effective Energy Efficiency Financing

Karl Dickinson - June 6, 2023 0

For all the benefits it offers, retrofitting is still the poor cousin of actions that cut emissions. There seems to be just too little of the interest and energy efficiency financing needed to meet...

Greenery

CityChanger Chris Kaiser: Putting the Elephant into Entrepreneurship

Karl Dickinson - May 9, 2023 0

What links an elephant habitat and sustainable cities? Today we’re challenging the way we look at urban sustainability by standing at the vantage point of outwards looking in – from the forest to the...

Revitalising Districts

Revitalising Inner City Districts: Brussels’ Many Faces of Circularity

Karl Dickinson - May 2, 2023 0

Economic hardship drives many struggling city centres to relent and force manufacturing and commerce to give way to residential developments. But some cities are resisting. The historic Abattoir site in Brussels is proof of...

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