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 [...]

A few months after leaving South Africa last year, and in the midst of the global food-price riots, I wrote a piece on Urban Agriculture and Food Security. It was mostly guess work at the time, but [...]

Sometimes the internet is a mess. Other days it throws up pieces of information that seem to fit together almost too perfectly. For the second time this month, Ontario's work to encourage renewables [...]

The New York Times' Green Inc. blog has a piece up on Austin Energy's plans to put in place a smart energy grid in the City of Austin and parts of the surrounding counties. Work begins with plans to have [...]