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Feb. 11, 2019 / Colin Stein

Clouds of Change: An Oral History

With another mention of Clouds of Change in the latest Cambie Report podcast, as well as Gord’s post yesterday (plus…
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Feb. 10, 2019 / Gordon Price

For PriceTalks 19: The Clouds of Change Report

In the current PriceTalks episode with Christine Boyle, we reference ‘Clouds of Change’ – the 1990 report and recommendations from…
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Feb. 07, 2019 / Gordon Price

If Only We’d Taken This Seriously

Peter Berkeley passed this item along from Snopes: A 14 August 1912 article from a New Zealand newspaper contained a…
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Feb. 06, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

“Intellectually Pleasing, Totally Sucks”~NASA’s Latest Data on Climate Change

If anyone had any doubt about climate change being real The New York Times has published data from NASA scientific studies…
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Feb. 05, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Climate Change and Colonization Hand in Hand?

In school you may have read about the “Little  Ice Age” that occurred in Medieval times and caused very cold…
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Feb. 01, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Region’s Dirty Laundry Now A Bit Cleaner

Maybe this won’t become a thermal coal port Port Metro Vancouver has cancelled the permit for a project that would…
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Jan. 31, 2019 / Gordon Price

Metro Sustainability Breakfast – Urban Forests

Join us to learn how local governments are working to achieve healthy, resilient urban forests, and hear highlights about Metro…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Council to World — We Like Transit

Vancouver’s new City Council showed it’s stripes today, in a long discussion around extending rapid transit to UBC.  …
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Jan. 22, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

The Planetary Health Diet

Among people in Metro Vancouver paying attention to climate change and its mitigation, what we eat is a rising issue.…
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Jan. 20, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver City Council: Climate Stuff

Vancouver City Council has declared there is a “global state of climate emergency“.  Staff are to return in 90 days…
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Dec. 07, 2018 / Gordon Price

Climate politics, abbreviated

  People who have been paid to burn your house down are lying to you about the existence of fire.…
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Dec. 06, 2018 / Gordon Price

Metro Breakfast: Low Carbon Future – Dec 12

  Metro Vancouver has committed to ensuring our regional infrastructure, ecosystems, and communities are resilient to impacts of climate change,…
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Dec. 02, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Cycling Santa – a Fond Memory

Vintage Arno Schortinghuis (with a little help from YouTube). December 2009, Bike to Work Week.…
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Nov. 19, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

King Tides In Vancouver

In a preview of what may become a normal high tide, as sea levels rise, check out the King Tides…

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