Archive for the 'green' Category
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
I go to my local YMCA a lot, and every time I’m there I think about energy use: how much energy I could be generating, how much I’m using, how much others are using. My “plus” membership entitles me to use the sauna and steam room, and I get towel service, too (yes! – love […]
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Tags: energy
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
I spent the past week in Boston and noticed that most streets – whether in Boston, Brookline, or Cambridge (the three municipalities I spent time in) – were either relatively tree-less or had undersized trees. While there are many streets that have some trees, and while there are some neighborhoods that approach leafy-ness, I’ll go […]
Filed under: cities, green, land_use. |
Tags: amenities, trees, urban_forest
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
This afternoon I went to see Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Interesting exhibition – I was enjoying myself until I wandered into one of the other sections, a special exhibit called Climate Change: Our Global Experiment. I learned a couple of things – for example, […]
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Tags: china, climate_change, harvard, headgear
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
I think of Canada as a pretty big place. It’s the geography, to be sure, but it must also be because there are so few people here. Take Vancouver Island: my current city, Victoria, hangs on its southernmost tip. We’ve got a few people here (350,000 in the Capital Regional District), and a few more […]
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Tags: bp, disaster, oilspill
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Got controversy? Density and building height are sure to push city dwellers’ buttons, particularly if the culture to date favored sprawl and single-family homes.
Filed under: cities, green, jane_jacobs, land_use, NIMBYism, sprawl, victoria. |
Tags: urban_planning
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
The term windspill captures the failings of our energy policy (as the Gulf of Mexico oilspill unfolds). We can now also see the shortcomings of NIMBYist and BANANAist obstructionism to alternative energy sources.
Filed under: green, NIMBYism, power_grid. |
Tags: oilspill, sustainability, windspill
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
“You measure what matters, and what gets measured, gets done.” That’s how Eric Hespenheide put it at this afternoon’s MIT Enterprise Forum event, live-streamed at UVic. …And I have to admit I felt a deep admiration for – perhaps jealousy of? – numbers crunchers who can make this real. Me? I’d probably get too absorbed […]
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Tags: environment, mit_enterprise uvic, sustainability
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Gordon Price deconstructed “Motordom” during a recent presentation. One question especially continues to resonate, both in relation to sustainable transportation planning and to Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge.
Filed under: cities, green, johnson street bridge, land_use, transportation, urbanism. |
Tags: cars, congestion, gordon_price, motordom, sustainability
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic Airways co-founded the Carbon War Room, a virtual HQ to transform our carbon-based economy into something sustainable. Is man-made climate change prompting business leaders to act against self-interest in favor of the common good?
Filed under: futurismo, green, innovation. |
Tags: carbon_war_room, richard_branson
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