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Carbon Neutral Now
Nice article about Yale's Kroon Hall and Victoria BC's Dockside Green as true carbon-neutral projects (with Dockside Green a model for building entire neighborhoods as green/ carbon neutral).
"Across the continent, at the southern tip of the mountainous and densely forested Vancouver Island, Dockside Green will soon become carbon neutral. A mix of town houses, mid-rise apartments, and commercial buildings being built on a brownfield at the edge of downtown Victoria, British Columbia, the large, multiphase urban development takes a comprehensive approach to carbon reduction, showing how much is possible at the neighborhood scale. "
See Span | Monday Mag
Added a comment to Monday Magazine's article on Victoria's Johnson Street Bridge debacle.
"Half of park, street trees at end of cycle" by Bill Cleverley (Times-Colonist)
City of Victoria has a couple of parks master plan workshops coming up this month, January 09 (tomorrow & on 1/24) to figure out how to manage continuation and replacement of current "urban forest." (See city website for "Urban Forest Master Plan".)
[Note that the statistics given in this article apply to the City of Victoria (which is downtown core and core neighbourhoods, ~80K pop.), NOT the Greater Victoria area nor the CRD (Capital Regional District), which is 13 municipalities. CRD/ Greater Victoria municipal politics is screwy - we badly need amalgamation of the core municipalities (Victoria, Oak Bay, Saanich, Esquimalt, View Royal).]
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More than half the 40,000 trees in Victoria's parks and boulevards are reaching the end of their life cycle.
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"Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"
Podcast of the panel/symposium hosted by University of Victoria on 11/18/08 re. "Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"
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How might the current economic crisis affect your house, your job, your future? Gain insight and a fresh perspective on the global financial crisis from this panel discussion featuring business, economic, and financial experts from UVic and the community.
Speakers: Graham Voss, UVic, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Basma Majerbi, UVic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business
Tom Siemens, RBC, Vice President Commercial Banking
Robert Jawl, Jawl Properties, Principal
Tony Gage, Head, JEA Pension System Solutions
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Local perspective.
Google Transit Partner Program
Tell me again why Victoria is not yet hooked into this? Vancouver transit did it - why not BC Transit in Victoria?
Stop Global Warming: Questions for Candidates in Victoria Municipal Election ('08)
These are questions put together by UUs in James Bay, the first part directed at municipal candidates. They're excellent and to the point, and give a concrete point-of-reference for how even municipal politicians might address the global climate issue without resorting to pie-in-the-sky or motherhood statements.
The Future is Now (Joseph Boutilier): Google Maps
This is a very cool implementation of Google maps, built by Joseph Boutilier (at 18 the youngest candidate in the current Victoria municipal election). He took a map of Victoria and added geo-links to connect specific sites with specific issues (and his proposed policies/ approaches). Very nice work.
Victoria Earthquake Maps
Earthquake hazards mapping for Greater Victoria, including amplification, liquifaction, and other risks, relative to one another for the region.
Basically, if I can just make sure I'm at home (in Rockland -- *rock* land, see?) when the big one strikes, I could be alright. Small comfort, though...
"Waste not; Making the most of our sewage" 2007-waste-not.pdf (application/pdf Object)
one-page PDF, "Waste not; Making the most of our sewage"
Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass -- New York Magazine
References to a "creative underclass" and "roiling Schadenfreude" of course set off bells for anyone familiar with the Victoria BC scene, which has long sustained itself on highly creative (often volatile) people living on substandard wages. True, that might be the only thing Victoria and NYC have in common, but the socially determined psychology suggested by the author's intro makes me want to read this with an eye on our local scene. We have in this city "a huge cheering section for failure," as a local commentator once put it, and maybe Grigoriadis's article will shed light on how that happens.
YATES EAST OF DOUGLAS; BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA AT LEFT - B.C. Archives
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Add Sticky NoteBANK OF NOVA SCOTIA AT LEFT
- note the awnings on the bldg next to bank, too: not just openings for pedestrians, but shelter - on 2006-09-03
LOOKING NORTH UP DOUGLAS - B.C. Archives
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Add Sticky NoteBUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS AND STORES
- - note the covered entry, part of the Eatons store, and how it takes up a majority of the sidewalk, if not the whole part of it. This is a kind of inclusiveness, a kind of blurring of private & public space, with mercantile/ business spaces that are private infringing, via awnings and other "refuge-creating" tricks, on the "public" spaces, thus drawing the public into their interiors, allowing penetration.
With the automobile, penetration was frowned upon. (Petting only...?) In a car, you glide past, you don't "enter"... - on 2006-09-03
- - note the covered entry, part of the Eatons store, and how it takes up a majority of the sidewalk, if not the whole part of it. This is a kind of inclusiveness, a kind of blurring of private & public space, with mercantile/ business spaces that are private infringing, via awnings and other "refuge-creating" tricks, on the "public" spaces, thus drawing the public into their interiors, allowing penetration.
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Cruise-ship business booming
- letter-to-the-editor response re. Alaskan tax on cruise ship passengers - lampertina on 2006-08-29
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Add Sticky NoteI'm curious why the article referred to the cruise ship industry as "beleaguered."
- this is an excellent point -- the local media always like to play up the "little red riding hood" complex (this is my thesis that it was only the wolf that made LRRH significant; without the wolf, who would care 2-cents about L'il Hood? So, you need the wolf to make people care... - on 2006-08-29
CNW Group: CAJ welcomes reinstatement of CanWest columnist
- news release from CanWest Global Communications Corporation reporting on the Canadian Association of Journalists' relief over the rehiring of Vivian Smith (see Public Eye Online, http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/001652.html and other entries from earlier in the July archive). - lampertina on 2006-07-25
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whose contract was terminated earlier this month after
advertisers expressed concerns to the paper's publisher about one of her
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the CAJ had expressed its concerns about what it sees
as the increasingly pervasive blurring of the line between news coverage and
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