Green Options

The world’s most ambitious “eco-city” has broke ground in the United Arab Emirates. Masdar City will be a  zero-waste, zero-carbon community powered by renewable energy. All garbage will be recycled, and inhabitants will grow organic produce. The first residents, 100 alternative energy postgrads at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, who will move in September 2009.

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Located in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a few kilometres inland from the Coromandel Coast, Auroville is an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity - a universal township in the making; for a population of up to 50,000 people from around the world. Auroville is recognised as the first and only internationally endorsed ongoing experiment in human unity and and in situ research on sustainable living and fulfilling all cultural, environmental, social and spiritual needs of mankind.

This week, the writers at EcoWorldly will explore ecocities around the world. Stay tuned to this topic by checking in daily at EcoWorldly, or subscribe to our RSS feed to receive email updates.

Having just heard from Keith Rockmael at San Francisco’s Ecocity World Summit 2008, we decided to take a closer look at ecocities, starting with the question “what makes an ecocity?”