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Sep. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Quote on Climate – 2: “Humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure””

From a column by John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli in The Guardian: We buy insurance to protect our investments in…

Aug. 21, 2013 / Gordon Price

Quote: Is that really the choice?

From Grist‘s Dave Roberts: I just don’t think there’s any way to make the facts of climate change congenial to…

Jun. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Quotes: Janette Sadik-Kahn

From an interview with New York City’s Transportation Commissioner: “The last time we’ve had a major change on New York…

Mar. 14, 2013 / Gordon Price

Quotes of the Day: March 14, 2013

“If we’re 100 years into the automobile era, it seems pretty inconceivable that the car as we know it is…

Mar. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

Assorted Quotes for March 4

“Young people simply cannot afford to run cars and that has driven up rail passengers numbers at a rate of…

Nov. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: On densification in Dunbar

“I hope that maybe it’s a four storey or somewhere else where they’re not going to disturb the neighbourhood, somewhere…

Aug. 31, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: Bob Rennie on new patterns in home ownership

Bob Rennie in the Huffington Post: The baby boomer is so automobile dependent because they needed it to socialize. Today…

Jul. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: Checking boxes or adding boxes

“There’s this tremendous fear of doing anything that’s out of the ordinary. Whenever some fad gets hot, whether that be…

May. 18, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: “Transit, transit, transit”

Bob Rennie at the UDI: Rennie said there were about 19,000 condo sales in Metro Vancouver in 2011, and that…

Apr. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Era of ‘Peak Human’?

From a speech at the 2012 China Environmental Press Awards (yes, there is one) in Beijing on April 10 by Jonathan…

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…

Sep. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Ouroboroses

In a New York Times’s review of “Zero History,” William Gibson’s new novel, Scarlett Thomas writes: The only other writer who…

Jul. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Michael Lewis – 2

Another quote from Michael Lewis, in addition to the one below, also in The Big Short: The ability of Wall Street…

Jul. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Reinhold Niebuhr

Neibuhr, writing about a newly predominant America 50 years ago: The same strength which has extended our power beyond a…

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