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Feb. 28, 2012 / Gordon Price

LEED Backlash in The States?

From ULI ‘s UrbanLand: In terms of LEED alternatives, a growing number of state and local governments are adopting different…
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Feb. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

New Courses from the SFU City Program

Some of you out there will be interested in these:   Integrating Social Dimensions into Sustainability (Core) Friday–Saturday, March 9-10,…
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Feb. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

The 100-Mile House Competition

You’ve heard of the 100-mile Diet.  How about the 100-mile House? The Architecture Foundation of BC … invites the participants…
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Feb. 10, 2012 / Gordon Price

Tour: Net-zero lane house

After you’ve read the post below, you might want to take the tour of a net-zero lane house this weekend:…
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Feb. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

400,000 plastic bottle caps

. That’s what it took Chris Jordan to create this version of Seurat’s Grande Jatte  – equal to the average…
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Jan. 31, 2012 / Gordon Price

Face-off in Langley: Litman vs O’Toole

What happens when you put sustainable transport advocate Tod Litman and smart-growth critic Randal O’Toole in the same room?  We’re going…
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Jan. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Tentpole Densities and Threshold Effects

Mikael Colville-Anderson recommends this “brilliant TED talk about future cities now by Alex Steffen.” . . Alex synthesizes a lot…
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Jan. 20, 2012 / Gordon Price

Green Building Megatrends for 2012

Jerry Yudelson thinks the overall theme is “frugal green.”  See all ten trends here.…
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Jan. 18, 2012 / Gordon Price

Best Government Ideas of 2011

From Governing magazine. Grabber: Drinking toilet water.…
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Jan. 17, 2012 / Gordon Price

Calgary Comparison

Speaking of Alberta (below), the Calgary Herald ran a piece a couple of days ago, asking prominent Calgarians to envision…
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Dec. 13, 2011 / Gordon Price

Density is not Destiny

“The carbon devil,” says Griffith U urban researcher Jago Dodson, “is in the detail on urban density.” When different building…
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Nov. 24, 2011 / Gordon Price

Good Reads 2 – A Convenience Truth

Another Fall book – this one from Patrick Condon’s shop at UBC: a collaboration by 20 student landscape architects and…
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Nov. 18, 2011 / Gordon Price

Waldheim: “Godfather of Landscape Urbanism”

Another SALA lecture – UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Charles Waldheim is the godfather of Landscape Urbanism and has…
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Nov. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Seattle wonders: Who’s the greenest of them all?

The Seattle Times sent its reporter Craig Welch to see what all the hype was about on the other side…

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