There has been an exploding interest in green roofs of late. During the recent Vision Vancouver fundraiser I was introduced to Erika Richmond who designed and built my friend Toby B.’s greenroof in the downtown east side. Walking away from the conversation I suddenly realized I may actually live on a green roof. The building [...]
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I live on a green roof – and so should everyone
Walking blues
As some of you know (and for reasons outlined here) I try to walk at least one direction to every meeting I have in Vancouver. Obviously I’m interested in all things walking which is why – in a brief fly by of Boston – I was stunned to find this store. A specialty store dedicated [...]
Mike Harcourt – Canada’s Al Gore on Urban Sustainability?
Yesterday evening, at Vanessa T’s prompting, I headed down to the SFU downtown campus to catch Mike Harcourt (former Mayor of Vancouver and Premier of BC) and Ken Cameron (former regional planner) present on City Making in Paradise their upcoming book about the history of city planning in Vancouver. Two things struck me about the [...]
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