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Oct. 31, 2014 / Gordon Price

Connections: Rankings and Rebellion

What is the link between this: . “The Climate Change Performance Index,” published annually by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network…
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Oct. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Disruptive Change: Yet another Old Boy threatened by youthful technology

The theme today seems to be the disruptive effects on traditional systems, especially large monopoly-like organizations, of new technologies.  Here’s…
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Oct. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Patrick Condon answers to "Some questions"

Patrick Condon commented in detail to Some questions for the Greens about highrises – but his remarks deserve to be brought to foreground:…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

The German Gift to the World: Energiewende

Almost immediately after being posted, this article quickly jumped to the top of the “Most E-mailed” articles in the New York…
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Sep. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Berkeley Bugle: "Limits to Growth was right"

From The Guardian via Peter Berkeley: . The 1972 book Limits to Growth, which predicted our civilisation would probably collapse some…
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Sep. 04, 2014 / Gordon Price

George Poulos: "Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver" – 2

The second section of George Poulos’s essay: Moving Towards the Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver [Part 1 here] . Investing…
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Jun. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Assisted Trucking: If it works for bicycles …

So here we go: autonomous-vehicle technology is starting to roll out – in this case for peloton trucking.   . From Popular…
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Jun. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Carbon Talks: Waste to Energy – Jun 24

Waste to Energy, Low-carbon Future? June 24, 2014 . Waste to energy is a popular solution in Europe and has…
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May. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Studies in Optimism: An Australian Lesson

While we’re making observations in Australia, here’s another one from The Conversation, the blog of Mike Sandiford – Director, Melbourne Energy…
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May. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Cross-border gas-tax leakage = Not much x Not much

So argues Yoram Bauman at Sightline: How much of the reduction in petroleum consumption in British Columbia (see graph below) is caused…
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May. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Fun with Charts: Visualizing Our Energy Consumption

From Ralph Torrie: Visualizing Canada’s Energy Systems Unlike the USA, Canada does not have an Energy Information Administration, and the…
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May. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Views on a Vancouver in Decline

Okay, PT readers, time to move on from the Spaxman piece before Godwin’s Law comes into play.  Here’s another chewy…
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May. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Changing Reputation: “Fracking comes to the world’s ‘greenest city’ “

This AlJazeera America piece may be an indicator of how Vancouver will be increasingly seen, even if the geography seems a little…
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Apr. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: B.C. as seen from abroad

If you look at it, B.C. is basically one big gas tank. – Wilf Wakely, chairman of the Canadian Chamber…

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