Vision

Cities and human settlements are the largest things human beings build. How we decide to collectively plan, build, operate and live in our cities and human settlements over the next two decades will largely decide the fate of future generations to come after us and life on Earth as we know it. Will we be able to make the transition in time to retain a biosphere healthy enough to regenerate living systems now under extreme stress? Our role is to help guide a vision of cities that can. And then go out and build them: one coordinated eco-citizen action, eco-neighborhood project, eco-city plan, eco-regional strategy, and ecocity supportive national policy at a time.

The EcoCitizen Map project begins with the belief that if we all take coordinated actions towards a shared vision of sustainable development — cities and human settlements in balance with nature and culture — we can make rapid and meaningful progress towards sustainability, and in fact, if we set our minds and actions to the task, we can stop global climate change, launch the ‘green economy’, restore the biosphere and eradicate poverty by 2030.

We want to help usher in the Ecozoic Era — an emerging epoch where humanity lives in a mutually enriching relationship with the larger community of life on Earth.