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Sep. 20, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver’s Rain Returns: Welcome to Petrichor

If you live in Metro Vancouver you know this scent, but you may not know its scientific name. Yesterday Jeffrey…
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Sep. 15, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Climate Risk Assessments & Climate Refugees will Impact Property Values

Here’s another way that real estate prices will be getting more expensive: places that are not as impacted by climate…
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Sep. 13, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Richards Street: First Large-Scale “Blue-Green” System Implemented

  The City of Vancouver has been working on “Blue-Green” systems innovations, building upon the work previously done under the…
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Aug. 31, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Paris Goes 30 Km/h Everywhere: Here’s Why We Should Too

  Paris is implementing what other European cities like Brussels Belgium, Grenoble and Lille France, and Bilbao Spain are already…
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Aug. 09, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver & London: “Walkie-Scorchie” Curvilinear Glass Buildings Heat Things Up

Moving towards a hotter drier climate, glass towers and their associated solar reflection and heat refraction are going to become…
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Jul. 14, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Heat Wave in Metro Vancouver: How Do We Cool Hot Cities?

  Metro Vancouver went through a deathly hot heat event at the end of June  in this area that is…
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Jun. 24, 2021 / David Sadoway

David Sadoway: “We Need a Regional Carbon Emissions Plan”

It’s really important to move folks  (including Vancouver Council) to thinking about carbon emission reduction from a regional perspective. I’ve…
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Jun. 07, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Cutting Trees for Quicker Development Processes, Axing Tree Retention for Development Expediency?

  Take a step back into 1996, twenty-five years ago. It was exactly this time of year when the City…
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May. 12, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Last Natural Salmon Creek & First Sustainable Street

Did you know that there is still one natural salmon bearing stream left in the City of Vancouver? That is…
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May. 03, 2021 / Gordon Price

Least Surprising Headline of the Month

And it was only April 1: From the New York Times: The research, published online Monday in the Proceedings of the…
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Apr. 27, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Green Roofs? Welcome to the 21st Century Upgrade: Blue Roofs

What is the top insurance claim for property in Canada? Surprisingly it is water damage. And as the climate shifts…
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Apr. 26, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Planting this Shrub Along Roadways Mitigates Air Pollution by 20%

The British Royal Horticultural Society has released a science paper that shows that hedges can mitigate air pollution if they…
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Apr. 13, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Battery Revolution in Our Times

When technology and economy come together, that’s usually called a revolution. You can get one of these electric scooters for…
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Mar. 31, 2021 / Gordon Price

What a difference (the kind of) trip makes

PT: Some new research from the University of Oxford that won’t surprise you – “people who walk or cycle have…

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