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Dec. 26, 2019 / Gordon Price

An Image for Our Times

Amidst the Australian bushfires – an image too sad to seem real:  a firefigher and a koala, watching their forests…
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Dec. 23, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Climate refugees have arrived

In Building a Resilient Tomorrow, Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz have put together a superb primer on responding to the impacts…
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Dec. 11, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Permafrost and Us: An Analysis (and Plea) by Mike Brown

The posts today are like the weather: gloomy, but it’s the environment we live in. The Washington Post just featured…
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Dec. 10, 2019 / Gordon Price

An Infrastructure Strategy for Climate Change

That head has to be a contender for a ‘most boring headline’ contest, right up there with the previous winner:…
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Nov. 13, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

The Netherlands Slowing Highway Speeds to Limit Nitrogen Oxide Emissions

Last week I attended the International Road Safety Symposium that was hosted by UBC’s Integrated Safety and Advanced Mobility Bureau…
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Nov. 06, 2019 / Gordon Price

Sustainability Breakfast: Air Quality – Nov 14

Metro Vancouver has managed air quality in the region for decades. As part of this effort, we are refreshing our…
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Oct. 16, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Tunnel Vision, Induced Demand, & Marchetti’s Constant at the Massey Crossing

In early October the task force set up by the Metro Vancouver mayors came to a consensus and decided that…
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Oct. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

Is Andrew Scheer an Extinctionist?

How to make an editorial comment in a front-page layout … Not sure how deliberately The Globe juxtaposed an Andrew…
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Sep. 27, 2019 / Gordon Price

Signs of Our Time (Today)

From Daily Scot at the Climate Strike:   From Michael Alexander:   Problem: Too many of the old don’t.…
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Sep. 27, 2019 / Gordon Price

Friday Funny: The Greta Thunberg Help Line

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Sep. 25, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Public Dialogue on Climate Change Adaptation/Momentum~October 9

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and City of North Vancouver present “Let’s Do It Now“, part of the…
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Sep. 20, 2019 / Gordon Price

Extinctionist Funnies

Via Durning:…
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Sep. 19, 2019 / Gordon Price

Extinctionism in Action

We interrupt the political distraction of the moment …   Please return to your regularly scheduled outrage      …
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Sep. 09, 2019 / Gordon Price

Extinction Lit

A new phase has started in how we think and write about climate change.  Extinction Lit: considering its inevitability, and…

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