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Facing crushing development, First Nations withdrawing permission

By Ian Gill One week before Christmas, 2012, the B.C. government announced a permanent ban on oil and gas development in the Sacred Headwaters. “As part of a tripartite agreement, Shell Canada is immediately withdrawing plans to explore for natural …

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March 20, 2013 01 October 2014

Vietnam’s Hoi An and the resilience of culture

By Julia Babcock Historic preservation often occurs in between boom and bust cycles when strong communities endure the shifting economic landscape around them. The Vietnamese city of Hoi An’s story of preservation is strongly shaped by the Thu Bon River,which …

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February 19, 2013 29 July 2016

Jon Waterhouse paddling a canoe.

From Alaska with love: Aid helps African clinic recover from fire

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January 25, 2013 02 December 2019

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A quantum leap in green building

By Dennis Hayes Sometimes, incremental innovations can’t produce quantum change. You can tinker with carbon paper forever without producing a photocopier. The quill pen did not lead to a typewriter, and not a single typewriter company evolved to personal computers. …

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January 18, 2013 29 July 2016

Beyond the bank: funding entrepreneurs and the recovery

By Terry Brandt A lot is being written about how to best lay the foundation for our country’s economic recovery. There seems to be little consensus  on whether we should borrow capital, which increases our national debt on the promise …

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November 7, 2012 01 October 2014

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Jon Waterhouse: On power and leadership

Indigenous leader Jon Waterhouse shares some thoughts on the interaction of power and leadership.

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November 2, 2012 02 December 2019

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A fresh approach to cooling the planet

By James Boyce and Manuel Pastor. Cross-posted on Triple Crisis. There is good news and bad news about the clean energy transition. The good news is that half the new electric generating capacity installed worldwide in 2008-2010 was renewable. The …

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October 18, 2012 01 October 2014

2012 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award honorees

Ecotrust announces five Indigenous Leadership Award winners

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October 9, 2012 02 December 2019

Transport revolutions: Viva Las Vegas?

Editor’s note: Writer and urban planner Tim Sullivan traveled the West this spring by bike, bus, foot and several other non-auto modes, as part of a journey to discover how revolutions in transportation are changing the region. He’s at work …

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June 27, 2012 01 October 2014

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Ecodistricts bring new life to North American cities

By Rob Bennett Last month, leaders from Austin, Bellingham, Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Guadalajara (Mexico), Mountain View, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Vancouver (B.C.) gathered at Ecotrust in Portland for the first-ever EcoDistricts Institute, a meeting to examine neighborhood-scale development projects in each of their cities. …

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June 19, 2012 07 May 2020

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