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Sep. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Stewart Brand on “New Urbanism”

To get a flavour of Stewart Brand’s iconoclastic thinking, check out this reprint of his anaylsis of New Urbanism here.…

Sep. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Speaking of Sustainability

The Brand lecture is almost half full already. Sign up now if you really plan to attend. And from our…

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Sep. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Eco-Pragmatist’s Manifesto

How have you heard about Stewart Brand? Perhaps as founder of the Whole Earth Catalog. Or of The Well, a…

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Sep. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Stimulus for Your Brain

It’s almost time for the Fall Lecture season to begin. Here are some upcoming ones you might want to put in…

Jul. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Green Wave

From Dave Ramslie, with the City of Vancouver’s Sustainability Office: Last Thursday Council passed a motion that now requires all rezonings…

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Jun. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Clouds of Change is Twenty

From Donna Passmore: Twenty years ago today, the City of Vancouver released the Clouds of Change report. It…

May. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Calgary outgreens us!

The Mercer Quality of Living Survey is out. (Available here.) This year, Vienna is tops. Vancouver ties for fourth with…

May. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Going Green for CNN and Expo

CNN did a nice piece on “Cities blazing a green trail.” Nothing new for those up on the latest developments;…

Apr. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

‘Just’ sustainability

Toward a ‘just’ sustainability Sustainability is often thought of as ‘science’. In this lecture, Julian Agyeman argues we have the…

Aug. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

“Leave oil before oil leaves us”

An interview in The Independent (August 3) with Dr. Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA)…

Jul. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Not just plastic toys.

In the race to build a small, affordable, powerful battery, a New York Times report details the challenges. And, at…

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Jun. 17, 2009 / Gordon Price

Marketing

Last Thursday: best breakfast I’ve had all year. Reason: the Vancouver Farmers Market society was giving their annual briefing at…

May. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Sightline Institute on the carbon tax

Here’s another reason why I’m pleased to me a member of the Sightline Institute. Needless to say, I share the…

Mar. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

“Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts”

Says Tom Friedman in this Sunday’s New York Times: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of…

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