When I'm walking through a city I have a game I play, you've probably done it too:  I imagine what you could do with all the open space if cars suddenly disappeared. You get a taste  when you stumble [...]

Vancouver’s Olympic Village and Convention Centre were the media-pleasing centrepieces for what was touted as the most sustainable Olympic Games ever. But headline projects can be a double-edged [...]

Writer and accidental activist, David Yoon, is the man behind Narrow Streets : Los Angeles. The photoblog began four months ago with one digitally altered image. Since then he has been taking the most [...]

At this week's Urban Transportation Summit, Translink's Ian Jarvis talked about the City's Olympic achievments in the transportation realm. The Games have certainly done a lot for transit in Vancouver [...]

Our Choice, Al Gore's new book on climate change, is as much a reference book as it is a call to action.  Over its 400 pages it covers everything from the science and politics of climate change, to the [...]

Last week the City of Portland and Multnomah County jointly passed one of North America's most ambitious Climate Change Action Plan (CAP), which commits the city and county to reducing their overall emissions [...]

The pre-launch materials for the World Bank's new Eco2 Cities program just came in. "Eco2" is the term they are using for cities that have (stop me if you've heard this before) harnessed the synergies [...]

Generating energy from waste is one of the mantras of sustainability. You'd be surprised what power sources we can find when we start exploring the dark corners of our infrastructure. Thanks to things [...]

Sustainability has been a feel-good project for most of its public life. But as our worst case climate change scenarios keep getting worse, the eco-limelight is taking on a darker shade of green. Citiwire.net [...]

We seem to be in the midst of an infrastructure epiphany. You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing investment in infrastructure discussed as the cure for our global economic woes, or at least something [...]