Edmonton’s First Sample of a Sustainable Carnival!

by Brad Curtis 02.01.2011 Energy & Climate Change

The need to protect the environment is making headlines on a daily basis, and I find that with the overwhelming amount of content being delivered it can really scare some people away from even wanting to think about it.  It seems that many people believe that if we make the transitions environmentalists are telling us [...]

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Welcome to Brad’s first blog post!

by Brad Curtis 01.25.2011 What is Sustainability?

Hello fellow Edmontonians! I really like our city.  I think that we have an incredible privilege of living in such a diverse city and remarkable age in human history.  It is, however, often way too easy to forget just how good we have it here.  The LRT is, for me, is a constant reminder of [...]

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Public Involvement

by Jim Andrais 12.17.2010 What is Sustainability?

Over the last eight months we’ve been meeting with community members and the public gathering your feedback on The Way We Green, Edmonton’s environmental strategic plan. Our first public input opportunities, from May until the August, focused on getting your opinion on what you consider to be the major environmental challenges facing Edmonton as well [...]

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White Paper Topics: Food Security

by Jim Andrais 11.23.2010 Food Security

The current situation: There are some risks to the future supply of food to Edmonton. Higher fuel prices and higher global demand may significantly increase the cost of importing food, and the land available for local food production is diminishing. Experts and stakeholders who participated in this project consider these risks probable. Possible policy objectives: [...]

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White Paper Topics: Energy (part 3/3)

by Jim Andrais 11.22.2010 Energy & Climate Change

The current situation: Our climate change goal is for Edmonton to be climate change neutral and resilient to disturbances that may result from climate change. Currently the City is examining ways to reduce projected emissions of greenhouse gases from City operations. Possible policy objectives: Give us your feedback on these possible policy objectives that could [...]

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