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A Éco-district is an urban district, designed in order to minimize its environmental impact, aiming generally at least an energy autonomy, and seeking to decrease its Empreinte ecological and/or to refund its ecological Dette.
En France, the concept is generally related to an approach HQE.

The purpose of the program Éco-district is to promote éco-good citizenship within the population montréalaise by gradually introducing new behaviors towards the environment by the means of the elected organizations.

To achieve this mission the organization must plan a whole of activities which make it possible to achieve the following goals:

1- to improve cleanliness in the districts of way permanente
2- to reduce the quantities of waste by the reduction, the re-employment, recycling and valorization (3-RV)
3- to improve natural spaces and the inheritance végétal
4- to sensitize the children in the schools and the citizens in general on the various techniques of composting.

Examples

One finds examples of Écoquartier in large European metropolises like Stockholm, Hanover, Freiburg-in-Brisgau (the Quartier Vauban), Malmö or London (the district BedZED).

In France, there exists in May 2006 several projects of écoquartiers: in particular in the North of France where them size is important.

Douai created the ZAC of Raquet in 2006, very vast écoquartier of 12 000 inhabitants, mixing social and ecological concerns because it is associated with a sector ANRU and will be served by the second line of tram and 15 km of cycle tracks; a channel and a green and blue screen will allow the management of rain water on site (0 rejection) and to maintain and restore the ecological corridors; the CAD (the Community of agglomeration of Douaisis), under the presidency of Jean-Jacques Delille, pilot this project with Florence Bougnoux, town-planner associated with the agency Seura, agent of the team of control of work.

The first public spaces and buildings meeting the standards of very energy high efficiency, associated with the recourse to renewable energies, should be delivered in 2009.

Lille announced in March 2006 creation from 2007 of a écoquartier.
Another would be in construction with Châlon-sur-saône, according to an article of the Échos of May 30th, 2006, using the soft circulations, the recovery of rain water, the collective heating with wood and of the solar-fired heaters.
Narbonne is also committed in the construction of a écoquartier: district of the theater.

See too

External bonds

the association of the Friends of EcoZAC of the place of rungis militates to make ZAC place of Rungis (Paris) an exemplary écoquartier.
http://www.narbonnetour21.com
http://www.ecoquartier-strasbourg.org
Emission of France Culture Ground to Ground on the écoquartier pioneer of Freiburg
" So that Coquelicot" Growth; try to make carry out an associative écoquartier in Geneva, Suisse
Hnord Projet of écoquartier on the site of old wine storehouses in Bordeaux carried by Hnord association.

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