Ecocity 2011 is 9th in the International Ecocity Conference series founded in 1990 by Richard Register. The first summit was held in Berkeley, California on the theme “Cities and towns are the largest things humans build and the way we’re building them is destroying the planet. Why not, instead, build cities in balance with nature?” Since then the International Ecocity Conference Series has been held in six other countries:
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1990 Berkeley, United States, Urban Ecology U.S.A., City of Berkeley Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders |
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1992 Adelaide, Australia, Urban Ecology Australia Paul Downton and Cherie Hoyle, Urban Ecology Australia |
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1996 Dakar / Yoff, Sénégal, City of Yoff Joan Bokaer, Director, Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York Serigne Mbaye Diene, Village Leader, Yoff, Sénégal |
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2000 Curitiba, Brazil, Open University for the Environment, City of Curitiba Cleon Ricardo dos Santos and Clovis Ultrimari, City of Curitiba, Brazil |
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2002 Shenzhen, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, City of Shenzhen Dr. Wang Rusong, President, Ecological Society of China Richard Register, President, Ecocity Builders |
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2006 Bangalore, India, Project Agastaya Raja Rajeev Kumar, President, Project Agastaya |
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2008 San Francisco, United States, Ecocity Builders, City of San Francisco Richard Register and Kirstin Miller, Ecocity Builders Dr. Wang Rusong, President, Ecological Society of China |
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2009 Istanbul, Turkey, Parantez, Istanbul Technical University Veysel Eroglu, Minister of Environment and Forestry, Turkey |
