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Dec. 01, 2021 / VWPT Vancouver

Climate Change and Flooding — who’s responsible now?

Climate change is a big factor in the ongoing damage caused by this November’s BC floods, but so is planning.…
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Apr. 26, 2019 / jamesavbligh

Friday Funny: Wet City

“In a lot of ways it was the best apartment I’d ever had. Partly just the proximity to the ocean…”…
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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. 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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Nov. 30, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

King Tide Comes To Vancouver

It’s baby steps, or rather baby incursions by the ocean onto various parts of Vancouver. We begin our adaptation to…
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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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Aug. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Cojones with Major Chutzpah

Due to finding unprecedented new levels of audacity and shameless behaviour, AP News’ Will Weissert reports this: Big Oil asks…
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Aug. 14, 2018 / Gordon Price

What Late Summer Brings With It Now

Smoke and filtered light. The haze softens the city with a yellow flush.   It’s just on this side of other-worldly.  It’s…
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Jun. 08, 2018 / Colin Stein

The Case for Carsharing: The Numbers All Go to 11

Vancouver’s home-grown carsharing cooperative, Modo, issued a press release this past week with the results of a multi-city member survey…
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May. 24, 2018 / Gordon Price

Metro Dialogue on May 30th: Climate 2050

The Board of Metro Vancouver (Greater Vancouver Regional District) has committed to pursue a regional target of 80% reduction in…
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May. 10, 2018 / Gordon Price

Metro Sustainability Dialogue: Climate 2050

FUTURE OF THE REGION SUSTAINABILITY DIALOGUES Locally, Metro Vancouver and our member jurisdictions have been leaders in climate actions for…
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May. 07, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Melody Ma, The Amazon Announcement, and Why this is Not Good for Vancouver

Melody Ma is a web developer, technologist, and active thought leader on urban issues in Vancouver. Ma recently wrote a cogent…
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Apr. 10, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Trying to Save the Best Farmland in Canada from Richmond City Council

It is very hard to believe that we still need to be reminded about the importance of food security and…
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Apr. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Flying "Cascadia's Innovation Corridor" Vancouver to Seattle

Along with  a high-speed train link to Seattle as reported in Price Tags Vancouver, there is a new “by sea option”…

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