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Jan. 16, 2009 / Gordon Price

Schadenfreude in Dubai

At least the Olympic Village will get built.  In Dubai and other real-estate hotspots around the world, the dominoes are…
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Jan. 01, 2009 / Gordon Price

Fashion Victim

A tie shop dies, Thurlow at Robson, Dec 27th. Or is this the first sign of the coming carnage?…
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Oct. 03, 2008 / Gordon Price

Feedback

A video about the feedback loops likely to lead to catastrophic climate change.  No, not cheery, but kinda important to…
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Jun. 28, 2008 / Gordon Price

I want my carbon-funded tax reduction

It’s been the best piece of public policy in years: more tax on what we want less of; less tax…
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Apr. 23, 2008 / Gordon Price

A Little Perspective

“Theoretically, we could see an Arctic that is ice-free in summer months a lot sooner than most people previously thought.…
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Mar. 23, 2008 / Gordon Price

Flying Balloons in Paris

Here’s the unedited text of my most recent column in Business in Vancouver: Ah, Paris: the city that lives up…
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Jan. 25, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Dying Canary

Here’s another sign that we should be thinking about how to get out of the mine shaft: a huge and…
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Jan. 07, 2008 / Gordon Price

Think Piece

Occasionally I come across a piece of writing that’s really memorable.  (At least it sticks in my mind until the…
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Jan. 05, 2008 / Gordon Price

"Urban Melt Down"

You have to be impressed with a city councillor who can actually write a book: in this case, Clive Doucet,…
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Dec. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

A change in the climate

I’m not entirely sure what came out of of Bali as far as the negotiated agreement is concerned, but I’m…
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Dec. 12, 2007 / Gordon Price

"The Arctic is screaming"

I’m putting that quote on my “Significant Lines of 07” list, based on this news: “The Arctic is screaming,” said…
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Dec. 05, 2007 / Gordon Price

Lesson? What lesson?

Sometimes Mother Nature gets a little heavy-handed with the irony: This pic comes from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer – a flooded…
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Oct. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Hey, Progress!

I always thought it odd, when sitting on Council, that some people just didn’t like good news. Whenever reports came…
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Sep. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

Meltdown

  According to Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre, the ice-covered area (light green in this image)…

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