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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. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Why do trolley buses require two wires?

Okay, not the most pressing question on your agenda.  But, nonethess, how come Vancouver’s trolleys need two parallel wires when…
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Sep. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

P3-2: Popular Public Places

If you couldn’t see the context, you might think you were on a beach somewhere on an island in Desolation…
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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. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Frontiers and Foreclosures

Frontiers is a series of photographs that document houses on the forefront of interaction with the economy and the environment.…
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Aug. 11, 2010 / Gordon Price

The German Way

John Pucher and Ralph Buehler have put out a rare paper – i.e. one not about cycling – on “Making…
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Aug. 04, 2010 / Gordon Price

“Living Building” at UniverCity

The SFU Community Trust, builders of UniverCity, launched the UniverCity Childcare Centre a few weeks ago – the first major building…
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Aug. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Marriage of Technology … and Marriage

Brent Wittmeier, a UBC journalism student, wrote a three-part article for a class taught by The Tyee editor David Beers…
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Jul. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Green Wave

From Dave Ramslie, with the City of Vancouver’s Sustainability Office: Last Thursday Council passed a motion that now requires all rezonings…
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Jul. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Volcano on Dunsmuir Street

My latest Business in Vancouver column: Half a month after the new Dunsmuir cycle track opened, the reaction to the…
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Jul. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Ellen Dunham-Jones on ‘Retrofitting Suburbia’

Ellen Dunham-Jones will, thanks to SFU’s Urban Studies program, be in Vancouver this fall as a ‘visiting fellow in sustainable…
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Jun. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Profligacy

There’s no fuel that even comes close to replacing kerosene and naphtha as jet fuel. What’s astonishing is that we…
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Jun. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

Events!

Upcoming lectures for the urban-minded: New Thinking for Everyday Urbanism June 15, 7 pm Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West…
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Jun. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Clouds of Change is Twenty

From Donna Passmore: Twenty years ago today, the City of Vancouver released the Clouds of Change report.     It…

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