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Product Stewardship: Who’s responsible for our trash?
By embracing a concept called “product stewardship”, British Columbia has adopted a far less regulatory, government-centered approach to dealing with trash, leaving Americans in the dustbin.Read more » -
A Tax's Progress
The provincial government in BC has taken another step toward a parking tax covering the entire Vancouver metropolitan area, as the Vancouver Sunreports. The parking tax is politically tied to constructing the Richmond-Airport-Vancouver light rail line and a new highway bridge. My enthusiasm for these three items are probably the inverse of public sentiment: I regard the parking tax as a terrific advance, the light-rail line as a mediocre idea,...Read more » -
Live Long and Prosper
Japan leads the world in life expectancy. According to the 2004 UN Human Development Report, a Japanese newborn could expect to live to be about 81.5, given this year’s patterns of disease and death. But Vanouver, BC isn’t far behind. A new study (reported here) shows how life expectancy varies from city to city in Canada. As a group, Vancouverites live longest, with life expectancies of 81.1 years—just a few...Read more » -
BC Condo Boom Continues
May figures show another record-setting month for sales of condominiums and other forms of housing in compact communities in greater Vancouver. Condo sales jumped by half over last May’s levels, which were already very high by the standards of other Cascadian cities. The boom has spread well beyond Vancouver’s downtown core, too.Read more » -
Map of Clearcutting in BC’s Williams Lake Region
Date Range: 1976-2002 Clearcuts leveled 20 percent of the forests – most of them previously untouched – in the Williams Lake region between 1976 and 2002.Read more » -
Sprawl and Smart Growth in Greater Vancouver
A comparison of Vancouver, BC’s growth during the 1990s with Seattle-Tacoma–and why Vancouver ranks higher at smart growth. Using census data and Landsat satellite imagery, Sightline researchers ranked municipalities’ and districts’ records in smart growth and pavement spread, and compared greater Vancouver with another fast-growing metropolis in the Pacific Northwest–the Seattle-Tacoma region.Read more » -
Sprawl and Smart Growth in Greater Seattle-Tacoma
Sightline’s study analyzes how the Puget Sound region did at curbing sprawl and developing efficiently in the 1990s. The report provides detailed rankings of counties’ and municipalities’ records in smart growth, and compares the Puget Sound region with the Northwest’s other two major metropolises, Portland and Vancouver, BC.Read more » -
Animated Map of Seattle and Vancouver, BC: A Decade of Growth
Date Range: 1990-2001 By 2000, 62 percent of Vancouver’s residents lived in compact communities, compared to 25 percent of Seattle’s residents.Read more » -
It’s (Past) Time for British Columbia to Legalize Roommates
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The Pipeline Giant Behind Keystone XL Wants to Expand a Major Fracked Gas Pipeline in Cascadia