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Mar. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

The End of the Region as we know it – 5: The Thin Green Line

In this case, the region isn’t just Metro Vancouver; it’s the Pacific Northwest and B.C. From Sightline: Huge fossil fuel…
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Mar. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Walrus Talks Energy – Mar 25

Tuesday, March 25: The Walrus – Energy Time: 6:30pm Place: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings…
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Mar. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Keystone Catch-22: Why Canada needs conservation and carbon limits to fail

A report from Inside Climate News outlines the argument between environmental groups opposing the Keystone pipeline and the U.S. State…
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Mar. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

The View from ’56: Thoughts on the Short-Term Future of Transportation Planning

I wrote the original of this essay back in the 1990s, and then submitted an update to Plan Canada, the magazine…
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Mar. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Selling carbon and selling out

From Tyler Edgington, director of feedstocks at Dow Chemical Canada ULC, in Business in Vancouver: It is inevitable that significant…
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Jan. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Strange Bedfellows: The Rise of the Green Tea Coalition

From the New York Times: … one would not expect to see Barry Goldwater Jr., the very picture of modern…
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Jan. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Paris wants to be like us

Extraordinary, really, that Vancouver is placed in the same category when cities like Paris look for world models to emulate.  Here’s…
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Nov. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

Panel: The Canadian Energy Debate – Nov 7

From energyconvo: What kinds of leaders can create a sustainable and workable energy future? What dynamics underlie pipeline wars and…
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Oct. 10, 2013 / Gordon Price

Picks from PICS and Carbon Talks: Climate and Energy

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is sponsoring these events in October: . Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3): Community…
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Aug. 20, 2013 / Gordon Price

Energy flows from around the world

What kinds of energy do we use, and how do we use it? The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed…
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Aug. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 16 – Recycling and Waste-to-Energy

Assorted items and reflections from my tour of The Netherlands – this time on recycling and waste. When it comes to…
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Aug. 01, 2013 / Gordon Price

Connections: "The road to hell is paved."

The provincial government has effectively announced that the Agricultural Land Reserve – the most important land-use decision in our history…
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Jul. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Is modernist design inherently unsustainable?

From thefifthestate: Why do some green buildings not perform as well as some older buildings? Maybe it’s the architecture itself,…
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Jun. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary – 5: The curious case of carbon, cars and consequences

We are going to have to get serious about carbon. . Canadians don’t really believe that, of course – certainly not…

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