GC 2020
44 results found
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Vancouver Horse Network
Let's reintegrate horses into our transportation plan! Imagine it - stables on each block, dedicated horse lanes, manure turned into valuable compost, natural exercise and healthy thigh muscles, job creation, reduced car use, animal therapy... there would be so many advantages! Bring back the horses, I say!!
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Encourage diversity in the green economy and policy making
A 2009 UBC study suggests B.C. Liberal's stimulus plan was sexist. As reported in the Georgia Straight, the director of the UBC Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Gillian Creese, says she objects to casual references to “shovel-ready projects” in discussions about the economy. We need to be careful of this in greening projects as well.
In April 1998, the City of San Francisco became the first municipality, at least in North America, to adopt CEDAW (the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). This has led at least seven of S.F.'s City Departments to…
10 votesApplies to the economy as a whole.
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One natural child per woman
Overpopulation is our greatest problem. While the city cannot restrict births, it should, as a matter of public relations, encourage only one natural child per woman, and shame those who make the unsustainable choice of larger families.
9 votesThough the population continues to grow, it is really overconsumption of resources that is causing most of the ecological damage we see.
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turn down town core into a pedestrian and cycle only zone!
I think we should do what many european towns have which is a down town where there is limited or no car access at all. The roads could then be paved with interlocking stone and other elements such as street cafes could be added and then pedestrians can enjoy the new space. No cars and trucks would also mean cleaner air and no need to worry about conflicts between pedestrians, cyclist, and motorist.
9 votesMaking the entire downtown core pedestrian and cycle only is interesting but impractical. That said, there is room to explore opportunities for car-free and/or pedestrian priority areas within the core.
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water purification
A lot of research is being done in large scale water purification using carbon nanotubes. Investigate and invest in changing over our water cleaning and filtration on tap water from harmful chlorine chemicals to cleaner filtration using carbon nanotube technology. Thus, making our clean drinking water even better than ever!
8 votesThe region has just completed commissioning a $600M filtration plant to filter our drinking water before delivering it to the city. It is unlikely that we will be investing any more money into drinking water filtration technologies for some time.
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City Employees Are City Residents
If unable to mandate that city employees reside in the City of Vancouver, create incentives for its employees to live in the City that they get paid to make better. Including teachers, police and firefighters. Besides recyling tax dollars, it will encourage employee buy-in to the health and vitality of Vancouver, and shrink the collective footprint of City staff commuters.
7 votesThe City of Vancouver is working toward creating complete communities throughout the city so that all residents can work, live and play within walking distance of each other, and that people can afford to live in the community in which they work. The City can’t mandate where staff choose to live.
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Air-travel/transport is under Federal jurisdiction.
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Nutritious Food Preparation Education
Launch an educational campaign & programs so that everyone can learn how to cook.
Include new people who immigrate here in this process. Many folks, when they move to North America, think that the typical fast food/pre-packaged way we eat here is something worth adopting. Often immigrants arrive very healthy, but get less healthy from living the typical North American lifestyle. Conversation and a mutual exchange of food skills would enrich the culinary lives of everyone involved.
This is a "green" option, because prepackaged food tends to be processed and grown in unsustainable ways. Knowing how to cook is a…
7 votesThis is already happening in the community. We’re not offering healthy food workshops but other community organizations do.
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Grave Maize
Plant Chilliwack corn in mountainview cemetery. This large dead space in the middle of the city already supports an underground economy. Cornrows would fit nicely between the tomb, ensuring Vancouver’s children of the corn will have locally produced superfood. And we don’t have to burn all that nasty fossil fuel to get the maize in from The Wack. Triple Sweeeet.
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Halt expansion of YVR air capacity. Develop high-end videoconferencing facilities instead.
Air travel is a major greenhouse gas contributor, also produces fine particulate pollution and noise that land on Vancouverites. Still YVR expands air capacity and encourages flying. City of Vancouver appoints a director to YVR board of directors. As an alternative, videoconferencing is one way to reduce air travel, but high-end facilities and connections that provide "telepresence" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence) are still rare. Vancouver could facilitate creation of a facility for teleconferencing that would be available for rent to businesses.
6 votesYVR is under Federal jurisdiction and not located within City of Vancouver limits.
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Cull the herd
Reduce the population of Metro Vancouver by 60% or more through culling the sheeple. Overpopulation is our greatest problem, and while we are far less populated than many places in the world, our affluent society has a much greater ecological impact per capita.
The piles of bodies can be contributed to the upcoming waste incineration plant.
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Elimination Of All Bike Lanes In Vancouver
This catagory is wrong, it should be travel by Automobile,Foot or Transit only which pays most of the taxes, When Bikers start paying annual bicycle license fees, access fees and tolls to use Bridges then it can be add to this Catagory
6 votesThis idea will not get us to our 2020 target to make the majority of trips by foot, bicycle and public transit.
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Education is key, subsidize trainings in Permaculture Design Courses
Bring leaders from the Permaculture feild to Vancouver. Support people to take such courses like the one that UBC farm just kicked off.
http://permaculturedesignubcfarm2010.eventbrite.com/
Train children, School farms.
I'm going to Southern Oregon to take this course in two weeks,
http://www.restorationfarm.org/Restoration_Farm/Courses.html
would be nice to have such leaders come here and train. Often in the trainings a portion of the training will be spent transforming a peice of land into a ecological sustainable edible garden.
I am confident that we could become the greenest city, but to do that we will need millions of people working together.
Build healthy soil.
5 votesPermaculture and other landscape programs are available to the community are offered by various non-profits and community food groups.
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Install a dictatorship
This will make it easier to impose a vision of how people will live and limit behavior and preferences.
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This action will not help us reach our greenest city targets.
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According to the website cited, air quality is a low source of dioxins and more significant reductions in dioxins can be made in other areas (e.g. diet)
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2 votes
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Lower Parking Fees & Higher Transit Fees
You tell me and less Municipal Workers
1 voteThis idea will not help us reach our 2020 Target to make the majority of trips by foot, bicycle or transit.
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Up To Day Gone Tomorrow Burrard Street Bridge
After the 2011Election all Permanet Bike Lanes to be removed from City of Vancouver, in the meantime tolls must be set up, access fees paid and Annual Bike license of $200.00. Even the Dogs pay more in the City of Vancouver
1 voteThe trial is intended to improve safety and help make cycling more appealing for all ages and abilities. To date it has been a huge success: significantly more cyclists are using the bridge — a 24% increase in general, even higher for women and children — and accident rates are down. The number of pedestrians and cars crossing the bridge have not changed appreciably, and transit operations are unaffected.
On July 7th 2010, the trial celebrated its one millionth cyclist, less than a year after the trial began. The following day, Council approved funding for the design of bridge rehabilitation work and permanent separated cycling paths.
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ca/burrard.
On July 8, 2010 Council approved funding for the design of bridge rehabilitation work on Burrard Street Bridge that will include a permanent separated cycling path.
Read the council report here:
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drinking water trucks www.toronto.ca/water/htotogo/
great way to reduce the use of bottled water
1 voteMetro Vancouver has purchased these.
