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Clean Water Under the Bridge

December 21, 2011 by Sturle Hauge Simonsen
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Integrated land use planning and water management steadily improving, but gaps still exist. [read more]

5 Things I Like about Montreal

October 25, 2011 by Georgia Silvera Seamans
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As you might have guessed, we like Montreal's parks. In September, I wrote about my hike in parc du Mont-Royal. See more Mont-Royal photos at our Flickr page. Other enjoyable design elements of the city include its street tree gardens, (we first wrote about them in August 2010); small squares; and infrastructure. If you followed our Where in NYC? (Subway Series), you know we like subway art. Like NYC, Montreal's Metro stations house art. [read more]

Toronto Residents Demand Physically Separated Bike Lanes

June 16, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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  Physcially separated bike lanes, like the ones seen here in New York City, are gaining ground in Toronto. Photo by Kyle Gradinger. Forum Research, Canada’s largest survey firm, conducted an automated telephone survey that found strong support for Mayor Rob Ford’s physically separated bike lanes on downtown streets. Out of 1,050... [read more]

Cities face new multicultural challenges

March 1, 2011 by Lorne Daniel
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As the world's cities become increasingly multicultural, one wonders how smoothly - or not - they will deal with diversity.At the recent Pathways 2 Sustainability 2011 conference, there was much consensus on the need for cities to source food closer to home, to cut carbon footprints, to offer alternatives to private car travel, and to... [read more]

Vancouver Strives for the Gold as World's Greenest City--can it become first Eco City-State?

December 22, 2009 by Warren Karlenzig
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Vancouver, Canada's new mayor Gregor Robinson is making good on his campaign promise to make Vancouver "The Greenest City on the Planet."  Forget trying to be Canada's greenest city as Toronto has aspired to be, or North America's greenest city as Portland, San Francisco and Chicago have vied for. If it succeeds beyond its... [read more]

Restarting renewables in Nova Scotia

July 29, 2009 by Michael Smith
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IF YOUR green targets are lemons, seize the chance to make lemonade. That looks like the thinking in acting Energy Minister Frank Corbett’s bold response to Nova Scotia Power Inc.’s fretting that it might not meet provincial targets for renewable-source electricity without buying power from a 60-megawatt biomass project that has been... [read more]

The Giant Sucking Sound

April 19, 2009 by Aaron Renn
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"Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming, or good-looking. They became rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful." - Paul Arden"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are... [read more]

World Water Day 2009: Transboundary Waters

April 1, 2009 by Raul Pacheco-Vega
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You might recall that I wrote a few days back about an invitation that Jered Love and Doug Van Spronsen from WaterDrop made recently. Jered and Doug asked me if I’d be willing to speak about the state of Canadian water within the global water issues context. Of course, I accepted gladly because I believe very strongly in the work that... [read more]