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- My home, winning prizes and making the news by eaves.ca on Nov 11, 2009
As long time readers of my blog already know I live on a green a roof (which is so amazing I wrote about it twice). I also live above a couple of box stores including a Winners and Home Depot and not to mention a sushi restaurant, a cellphone shop, a...
- “Major Translink Reform Needed” Part 2 by Stephen Rees's Blog on Nov 9, 2009
This post is intended to be a more thorough analysis of the Comptroller General’s recent report on Translink. I know that she also looked at BC Ferries but that is not going to be part of this post, although I think it is interesting to note...
- Good News on the Greenhouse Gas Front: US Emissions Are Down. Now the Question Becomes, How to Keep Them That Way by Recreating Eden: Mary Soderstrom's Blog on Nov 3, 2009
Straight Goods editor Penney Kome passes on a bit of good news via a recent analysis of where we are in the greenhouse gas emissions fight. Lester R. Brown, of the Earth Policy Institute and who has been on the case for years, says that things are a...
- Urban sprawl no fun for kids by Stephen Rees's Blog on Oct 28, 2009
Laura Stone in the Vancouver Sun on two reports from the Vanier Institute of the Family. The Sun of course does not provide a link to either of the reports or the institute so I have saved you the Google search. Neither, it seems to me, says anythi...
- Ned Jacobs: Citizens’ summits do not compensate for Vision’s abandoned promises by Stephen Rees's Blog on Oct 28, 2009
This post is really just to let you know I have updated my recent post on Gregor Robertson’s “Greenest City” plan. Ned Jacobs has written a trenchant opinion column for the Georgia Straight which draws the links between Vision and t...
- Interchange ‘entirely for port,’ says councillor by Stephen Rees's Blog on Oct 24, 2009
Richmond Review The City of Richmond has long wanted another interchange on the freeway. Their preferred location would be Highway #99 at Blundell. The province does not want to do that, but has offered a new partial interchange on Highway #91 at Nel...
- Mayor releases plan to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020 by Stephen Rees's Blog on Oct 21, 2009
Gregor Robertson used the platform of the current Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre to launch “Vancouver 2020 A Bright Green Future” yesterday. This is the document from the Greenest City Action...
