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Helen Spiegelman's Cool Vancouver Vision

10/10/07

Permalink 08:11:18 pm, by edoherty Email , 264 words   English (CA)
Categories: Gateway, Livable Region, Environment, BC Politics, Transportation, South Fraser Perimeter Road, Port Mann Twinning

Helen Spiegelman's Cool Vancouver Vision

 

Cool post from former SPEC President Helen Speiegelman. I think Helen has convinced me to attend the Dream Vancouver event even though I have missed the early bird rate. However, I find it interesting that Gateway is still being referred to as "Falcon's Folly". It seems to me that it is Campbell that has a legacy to lose over the issue. Maybe this means that Helen, and others, thinks there will be a cabinet shuffle soon. (e.g. Kevin Falcon, Minister of Leftovers and Afterthoughts).

 

Helen Spiegelman, Coordinator, Zero Waste Vancouver:

It's 2020. Communities all over the world, including here in Metro Vancouver, are reinventing themselves after the global economic crash of 2015.

In retrospect, people laugh ruefully about the notion of Vancouver being a "hub for Asia-Pacific trade," and congratulate themselves that at least they were successful in blocking Falcon's Folly back in 2008.

Nowadays, the Chinese are too busy rebuilding cities destroyed by typhoons and developing desalination plants to supply their citizens with drinking water to supply North America with low-priced consumer goods. Climate-change-driven ecological collapse hit the Chinese early, but they cashed the bonds they'd invested in the US and recovered enough to finance the reconstruction before the US economy collapsed.

Because the container terminals are idle and there's less stuff to stock the shelves of big-box stores, there's a lot less garbage. Instead, there is a flourishing and diversified local trade in used goods. Retro is cool.

Click here for more from Helen

But also check out Monbiot's Bring on the Recession http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/10/09/bring-on-the-recession/

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Comment from: Budd Campbell [Visitor] Email
I notice that Speigelmann gives no idea what those housing coops in Vancouver will be priced at come 2020.
PermalinkPermalink 10/10/07 @ 23:05
Comment from: Pierre Chenier [Visitor] Email
Just read your "letters to the editor" about separating recycling. Totally agree BUT, the public is very difficult to teach! Have you or others addressed the fact that we(read world) are quickly moving to energy efficient lighting which contain mercury? When the numbers get too great, we will have a big problem!
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Comment from: Danielle Bedard [Visitor] Email · https://vancouver.greenearthorganics.com
I recently attended the Vancouver Food Policy Council Meeting and was very interested to learn about Vancouver's Greenest City Team that is asking Council Members to take a stand on organic waste pick-up. Helen Spiegelman was very articulate regarding the benefits of returning organic matter to the earth.

Does anyone have further information regarding this initiative?
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