Metro Vancouver’s Rain Returns: Welcome to PetrichorIf you live in Metro Vancouver you know this scent, but you may not know its scientific name. Yesterday Jeffrey…
Climate Risk Assessments & Climate Refugees will Impact Property ValuesHere’s another way that real estate prices will be getting more expensive: places that are not as impacted by climate…
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…
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…
Vancouver & London: “Walkie-Scorchie” Curvilinear Glass Buildings Heat Things UpMoving towards a hotter drier climate, glass towers and their associated solar reflection and heat refraction are going to become…
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…
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…
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…
Vancouver’s Last Natural Salmon Creek & First Sustainable StreetDid you know that there is still one natural salmon bearing stream left in the City of Vancouver? That is…
Least Surprising Headline of the MonthAnd it was only April 1: From the New York Times: The research, published online Monday in the Proceedings of the…
Green Roofs? Welcome to the 21st Century Upgrade: Blue RoofsWhat is the top insurance claim for property in Canada? Surprisingly it is water damage. And as the climate shifts…
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…
The Battery Revolution in Our TimesWhen technology and economy come together, that’s usually called a revolution. You can get one of these electric scooters for…
What a difference (the kind of) trip makesPT: Some new research from the University of Oxford that won’t surprise you – “people who walk or cycle have…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner
Dec. 16, 2022New Book: “Public Realm The New Makers Handbook” by Michael Von HausenSandy James Planner