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Sep. 09, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cool Watch

Two very cool items picked from my favourite aggregator, ArchNewsNow. First, from Wired, the greenwalls of Patrick Blanc.  Here’s one…
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Aug. 14, 2009 / Gordon Price

Growing Corn on Davie Street

Imagine, even a decade or so ago, if someone had predicted flower and vegetable gardens at Burrard and Davie Streets, where gas stations…
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Jul. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Fall Arrivals: YVR Green Wall

On arrival back from greener-than-thou Portland, it was a treat to see, immediately on exit from the international terminal at…
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Jun. 17, 2009 / Gordon Price

Marketing

Last Thursday: best breakfast I’ve had all year.  Reason: the Vancouver Farmers Market society was giving their annual briefing at…
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May. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Aussies do infrastructure right

Australia’s Peter Newman (Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and author of The Reslient City) is on the Infrastructure Australia Advisory Council. …
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May. 19, 2009 / Gordon Price

Paris Autolib

While we’re in a European mood, let’s go to Paris: Here’s a wonderful little video from E2, the PBS program…
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May. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Sightline Institute on the carbon tax

Here’s another reason why I’m pleased to me a member of the Sightline Institute.  Needless to say, I share the…
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May. 07, 2009 / Gordon Price

Two New Blogs

Two recommendations for those interested in transportation – particularly transit, walking and cycling.  (I hesitate to label them ‘alternative’ transport ’cause…
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May. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Happiness on the Hill

Good news from the top of Burnaby Mountain: UniverCity was recently honoured as a winner of the Urban Land Institute’s…
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Mar. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

“Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts”

Says Tom Friedman in this Sunday’s New York Times: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of…
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Mar. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bad Connections

A story out of Sydney on bad news for toll roads and bridges.  Skip the details on the complications of BrisCon…
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Mar. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

Sustainawhat?

The SCARPies are putting on a show.  Well, a symposium actually.  The students at UBC’s School of Community and Regional…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Wendy’s coming to town

And she won’t be happy if you don’t come to see her. Wendy Sarkissian is an award-winning planner and author of…
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Dec. 03, 2008 / Gordon Price

EcoMetropolitanism

Matthew Soules is an architect (his firm is MSA) as well as an adjunct prof at UBC.  He and Mari…

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