Canadian urbanists issue manifesto for move to “walk, bike, transit”...
The Charter for Canadian Cities, a manifesto signed last month by a national gathering of Canada’s leading planners and architects, will see our cities evolve into something a little like Vancouver, if...
View ArticlePort Metro Vancouver raising curtain on huge Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project,...
Port Metro Vancouver CEO Robin Silvester used his annual presentation at the Vancouver Board of Trade today to connect the dots between the Massey Bridge project and the port’s future plans for the...
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Missing from #vancitybird nominees: our own urban Northwestern Crows
Vancouver Park Board’s Vancouver City Bird contest is getting lots of attention, with the five current candidates fighting it out on social media under the hashtag #vancitybird. (You can cast your...
View ArticleWith Olympic Village debt retired, is it time for longer review of city’s...
With Vancouver’s $630 million Olympic Village debt retired, and $70 million left over to pay other costs of the False Creek project, real estate writer Bob Ransford believes it’s time for a full post...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s progress on zero waste shows Metro’s more modest goal very...
News that San Francisco is on track to achieve its goal of zero waste by 2020 — a more aggressive target than Metro Vancouver’s 80 percent diversion — is proof that our region can achieve a major shift...
View ArticleFewer than 500 landlords could green city rental, commercial space with...
Fewer than 500 Vancouver landlords and building owners, enough to meet comfortably in the 668-seat Playhouse Theatre, could hold the key to greening a large share of the city’s buildings. Energy...
View ArticleTreekeepers, Green Building Cncl, Community Energy praise progress on...
Speakers from Treekeepers, the Green Building Council and the Community Energy Assoc. lined up at City Hall today to praise the city’s progress on its Greenest City goals. Highlights of the progress...
View ArticleThe Pristine Coast traces salmon farming’s trail of broken promises,...
Given the relative abundance of BC’s wild salmon stocks in the 1970s, it was never clear why salmon farming should even be a consideration. We had annual wild salmon harvests worth hundreds of millions...
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Sing out your concerns for the future of Vancouver’s birds in Bird Strategy...
The Black-capped Chickadee, official 2015 Vancouver city bird Vancouver’s new buildings may require special window treatments, street lighting could change and city parks may be transformed in...
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Why are BC’s salmon runs in decline while other Pacific nations see increases?
A seven-month old press release from the North Pacific Anadramous Fish Commission, brought to my attention by David Ellis, raises an important question: why are Canada’s salmon stocks, especially...
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