The GSB Interview: Jason Twill, a Green Sports Alliance Founding Director, on the Organization’s Birth

Green Sports Blog

The Green-Sports movement is in a transitional phase from its initial 1.0 version — the greening of the games themselves — to its 2.0 incarnation — engaging fans on environmental and climate issues.

The Green Sports Alliance, now eight years old, is also in the midst of change, as it searches for a new executive director to lead the organization firmly into the Green-Sports 2.0 era. That the Alliance is the most established Green-Sports trade association in the world may be taken for granted by many. But for those who were present at its birth, the odds of the GSA reaching its eighth birthday was by no means a certainty back in 2011. An organization dedicated to the Greening of Sports? What did that even mean?

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From Cost Benefit Analysis to Integrated Value: How Can Enhanced Valuation Frameworks Move Us Beyond Sustainability Toward Regenerative Built Environments?

Proceedings from the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference (co-author)

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Moving Beyond Green: Toward Regenerative Development

The Fifth Estate (co-author)

We are at a critical point in human history where there is a pressing need for a new development paradigm. Regenerative design and development is a practice, philosophy and process. Successful regeneration means to evolve and continually develop new potential. The dictionary definition addresses both the action and the source of this new potential: 1) to create anew and 2) to be born of a new spirit.

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Collaborative urbanism: disrupting the paradigm for market-led urban regeneration

Today, we are living in the “urban age”. It is also a reality that we are firmly rooted in an age of inequity: our cities are more gentrified than ever before in history. An over-reliance on market-led, speculative urban development models is continuing to cause perverse social, cultural, economic and environmental outcomes.

Supersized Cities: Residents Band Together to Push Back Against Speculative Development Pressures

The Conversation 

Across the world’s cities, the over-reliance on speculative, developer-led urban renewal models is clear. This imbalance is now challenging the liveability of our cities.

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Has the Sharing Economy Been Co-opted?

The Fifth Estate (featured in)

The sharing economy is now massive, with co-working, ride sharing and cooperative housing taking off around the globe. However, concern is mounting that many models are not in the spirit of the true peer-to-peer sharing economy. Is anyone winning except for a handful of Silicon Valley elite?

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From ‘White Flight’ to ‘Bright Flight’ – The Looming Risk for Our Growing Cities

The Conversation

The pressure on housing in Australia's cities shows no sign of easing. Could we soon see a "flight" from our biggest centres to secondary cities? While there are precedents for this in America, UTS lecturer Jason Twill argues, this might play out very differently in Australia.

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Jason Twill on Making New Affordable Housing Models Work

The Fifth Estate (featured in)

Sydney should take lessons from global cities that have achieved success in creating affordable housing and provide adequate incentives to accelerate its progress, according to Jason Twill, innovation fellow at the University of Technology Sydney’s School of Architecture.

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