Whistler2020 Accelerated: Going Carbon Neutral

by Naomi Devine 16 February 2010 Climate Change

Whistler2020 Accelerated is a series of columns I am writing for WHISTLERtoday: Your Inside Edge to the 2010 Winter Games. The series profiles sustainability initiatives and stories that are accelerating Whistler’s community journey toward sustainability. I modified this one slightly, to explain sustainability system condition 4 near the end of the article. Most people don’t [...]

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Whistler2020 Accelerated: Whistler Public Library. A model of sustainable building

by Naomi Devine 15 February 2010 Uncategorized

Whistler2020 Accelerated is a series of columns I am writing for WHISTLERtoday: Your Inside Edge to the 2010 Winter Games. The series profiles sustainability initiatives and stories that are accelerating Whistler’s community journey toward sustainability. Last week, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was given an award from the Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC) for [...]

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Whistler2020 Accelerated: Closing the loop on Waste

by admin 14 February 2010 Uncategorized

Originally published on 14 Feb 2010, in WHISTLERtoday. Not written by me. Did you know that during its journey, the inherent temperature wastewater actually provides space and water heating for the entire Whistler Olympic Athletes Village? It also reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 90 to 95 per cent compared to traditional methods. It all starts [...]

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Whistler2020 Accelerated: Electric vehicle charging stations in Whistler

by admin 13 February 2010 Climate Change

This story was published in the 13 Feb edition of WHISTLERtoday. Largely from a press release, but covers the main points of the charging stations in Whistler. With a nod to the future, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has installed four new electric vehicle charging stations in the first level of the Whistler Conference [...]

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Whistler2020 Accelerated: Biodiversity Matters in Whistler

by Naomi Devine 12 February 2010 Uncategorized

Whistler2020 Accelerated is a series of columns I am writing for WHISTLERtoday: Your Inside Edge to the 2010 Winter Games. To subscribe to the daily newsletter, please sign up on www.whistler2010.com 2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity by the United Nations in order to halt or significantly stop the rate at which [...]

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Note from Peru: Heavy rains damaging homes in Quilla Huata

by Tom Arnold 4 February 2010 sustainability

Two by three. Can you imagine what it would be like to live in a house that measures two meters by three meters? Cooking, eating, sleeping, and sheltering livestock in a space the scarcely larger than a combi or mini-van? This is reality for Mercedes, or at least it was until the recent rains hit.

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The Politics of Run of River Energy in BC lecture at UBC

by Naomi Devine 1 February 2010 Uncategorized

I’ve been asked to address UBC’s ENVR 200 class on run of river energy in BC tomorrow. To say that this is a heated topic in BC would be the understatement of the newly minted 10s. Run of river, or small hydro, is but one solution in the renewable energy basket, and yet it is [...]

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Sustainable transportation and the Olympics: Part One

by Naomi Devine 31 January 2010 Uncategorized

Much ado is being made about the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, that take place here in less than two weeks. Whatever side you fall on, I think transportation is something you should be paying attention to during the Games, because there are important lessons to be learned for sustainable transportation and community planning. [...]

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Inaugural post

by Naomi Devine 31 January 2010 Uncategorized

Welcome to my online experiment. After far too much time elapsing from the time I said I would write a blog, I have committed to maintaining one. I haven’t honed in on a definite focus at the moment, but I will be blogging my thoughts on climate change, sustainability, life in BC (including the corridor [...]

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