Sustainability Abroad: What Can We Learn from Europe and the Rest of the World?

Explore the lessons Europe can teach us about sustainability. European urbanism has long been a source of inspiration for American policy, planning and design ideas. With California's recent push toward sustainability, there is much to be learned by observations from selected countries, cities and projects throughout Europe.

Jeff Loux, Ph.D., director of the Land Use and Natural Resources program, explores and catalogs European urban innovations each summer. This year, he traveled to Stockholm and Malmo, Sweden; Odense, Copenhagen and Aero, Denmark; Amsterdam, Leiden and Utrecht, Netherlands; and Freiburg, Germany. These and other cities offer unique insights into how to design, build and live in communities that save energy, recycle materials, generate renewable energy, reduce pollutants, and decrease ecological and social impacts. Learn how these places combine sustainability with a vibrant and marketable quality of life.

Take a virtual tour of ecologically based neighborhoods, city centers and water, solid waste and energy facilities. Examine the policy and planning behind the projects, the technologies employed and the elements that might transfer readily to the U.S. Hear from a panel of professional designers and planners who have lived and worked throughout the world as they highlight their experiences and projects in Southeast Asia, Australia, Latin America, Canada, the Middle East and elsewhere. This class is a must for anyone looking to change the way communities are planned and built in the U.S. (especially California), and with the desire to dream big.

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