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Mar. 16, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Lessons from the Dutch: Climate Change, Sea Rise & Delta Flooding

When a category five hurricane devastated New Orleans in 2005, Dutch teams consulted with New Orleans about potentially reconstructing their…
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Mar. 15, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Are We Ready for the Half-Meter Sea Rise in Metro Vancouver?

  In British Columbia Kees Lokman at UBC has been creating an open-source database called Living with Water  as a…
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Jan. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Why Charts are Useful

A few weeks ago, PT wondered why GlobalBC TV doesn’t use charts to show the daily Covid numbers in context.…
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Nov. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Oil, Cars & China~Is the Gas Guzzler Period Officially Over?

It is not small shifts in technology but big moves in governmental policy that will be the last gasp of…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Remember those Future Climate Refugees Coming North? Is it Happening Now?

It was always a surprise to be in Vancouver’s downtown commercial areas and help tourists with directions in what would…
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Oct. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Gordon Price’s Body of Work Television Blunder

The Pandemic has brought a lot of things to the forefront, not the least of which is using technology to…
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Oct. 08, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Dutch Road Innovation~Bye Bye Bitumen, Hello Lignin!

  Do you know what the biggest use of bitumen is? Bitumen is “low-grade crude oil which is composed of…
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Sep. 28, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Less Car More Transit, Walking, Cycling in a Post Pandemic World?

It was Eric Doherty that started it all in this article by Jennifer Saltman in the Province.  In the summer…
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Sep. 28, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Water~No Longer a Free Resource

Metro Vancouver is unique in that the region uses water from the mountains contained in Seymour, Capilano and Coquitlam reservoirs.…
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Sep. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Does more WAH mean less VMT

Translation: Will the increase in people working at home mean we’ll drive less? Answer: Apparently not. Here’s a summary from…
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Sep. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

Continental Migration in the New Abnormal

As we enter the era of the New Abnormal  – much faster than most of us expected – where will…
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Sep. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

The NPA Co-opts Seniors and the Disabled for the Sake of Motordom

  A report from Global News reporter Nadia Stewart, with a headline that distorts the story: The protest had three…
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Aug. 20, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Right of Way, Race, Class & Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths

America Walks presents this informative discussion as part of their monthly webinar series. This is sure to be oversubscribed, so…
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Jul. 20, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Preparing for Climate Change, American Planning Association

American Planning Association’s (APA) Sustainable Communities (SCD) and Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (ENRE) Divisions are asking planners how they…

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Sandy James Planner

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