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Dec. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the Heat – 2

From Australian Broadcasting via Transport Newsletter 180: The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat…

Dec. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Divide

Doug Coupland quotes G.K. Chesterson in his bio of Marshall McLuhan (great read, by the way). The whole modern world…

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Dec. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

A new standard of civility at City Hall

So, a sports jock in a pink suit is the star of a mayoral invocation in Canada’s largest city. “I’m…

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Dec. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the heat

Two stories by Jeff Lee in the Sun worth emphasizing: Olympic Village’s heat-from-sewage utility a monetary success Vancouver’s sewage heat-generated utility…

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Nov. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

“Fair Tolling”

The story may have been that Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts turned down the entreaties to run for the Liberal leadership. But…

Nov. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Potluck Politics

My current Business in Vancouver column: If you’re going to a potluck, the first rule is that you have to…

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…

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Aug. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Streetcars – The Missing Link

Streetcars: The Missing Link? brings together decisions makers, academics and community leaders to explore, discuss and debate the potential role…

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Aug. 18, 2010 / Gordon Price

Where is this?

Answer below the fold.…

Aug. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls

Two reasons why you should watch this. (1) Jay Smooth videos are clever, funny, incisive and short. (2) This is the…

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Aug. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

Face-off at Perception Gap

From my Business in Vancouver column: Looks like another politician has fallen into Perception Gap. Mayor Robertson seems to have…

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