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Jun. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Kerrisdale Sequoia Gets Too Stressed, But More on the Way

A gardener’s adage  is “right plant, right place” to ensure that plantings remain and thrive with the right amount of…
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Jun. 11, 2020 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: Covid / Climate Connection

The Pandemic & Climate Change Can COVID-19 get us to respond to the climate crisis? City Conversations continues in a…
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May. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Drivers Prepared to Take A Walk in Post Pandemic Great Britain

Everyone has been enjoying bluer skies, better views, great sunsets and better air quality with the reduction of vehicular and…
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May. 13, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Achieving Low Carbon Resilience For Local Governments~Free Webinar

The Public Sector Digest is co-presenting this webinar with the international landscape design firm Arcadis. Climate change can pose considerable physical…
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Apr. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

‘Transit is contagious. Cars are clean. Gas is cheap. Density is dangerous. Let’s drive!’

  PT: As predicted, the rationale for more driving (and priorizing road space for it) is underway – this one…
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Apr. 11, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Density Diversion – 1

  A totally confident prediction: those opposed to increasing density (any multi-family development), using road space for bikeways and greenways…
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Feb. 24, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Emergency? What Climate Emergency?

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month.  Follow his coverage here and on Instagram (gordonpriceyvr). More evidence…
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Feb. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Right-wing Irrelevance in a Time of Trauma

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month, Instagramming and podcasting his way across the country.  Follow his…
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Feb. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Harper Strategy Fails in Australia

When Prime Minister Harper visited the Arctic on one of his several trips – once for 16 days – the…
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Feb. 18, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia in a Time of Trauma

For the next month, I’ll be in Australia, returning to the island continent for the 11th time, and to the…
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Feb. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What to do with underground parking

Ian Robertson found one solution in Paris.  From Euroactiv: In Paris, as in many European cities, the number of cars…
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Jan. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

Climate Change and its Costs

For our sceptical commenter (under whatever name) who believes “this blog now ventures into far too much into far-away natural…
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Jan. 04, 2020 / Gordon Price

How Passive the Suicide

Look to Australia to see how long a governed people will commit to an ongoing and passive suicide as they…
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Jan. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Climate Change: The End of the Harper Strategy

Time has run out for the Harper Strategy on climate change. I like to give Stephen Harper credit for this…

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