Our cities are growing. The UN estimates that up to 61 percent of the world’s population will life in cities by 2030 – pushing up urban population from three billion today to a total of five billion. By 2015, approximately 350 million people will live in megacities. As a consequence of this accelerated urbanization, the transformation of cultivated land and nature into urban landscapes continues and jeopardizes the resources for future generations. Keyword: sustainability! Solution: Ecocity? [read more…]