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Will also need to provide a program to kill off the starlings since they will try and eat the apples first. Cherries, apples, etc are all gone before they are even ripe.
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19 votes
This has long been a priority at the municipal level. Regionally, support is required from higher levels of government (e.g. Metro Vancouver, TransLink, Province of BC) as other municipalities.
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They only come because of the new Higher tax on parking 35%.
Also Canada line made traffic even worst along the line at the bottom. -
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If you want to be a greenie try composting your excess food scraps and yard trimmings. Maybe waste less of the food and eat food that is only slightly bad.
So much food is thrown out by stores, because the produce is only slightly bruised. More green people should eat food that is bruised as long as it is not growing mold. -
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We have to tell them to stop burning the RainForests, otherwise the world will end. This I believe is the True Cause of Global warming. But the easy money is from carbon CO2 charging for fuel and not saving the rainforests.
Tragically, the tropical rainforests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. According to Rainforest Action Network, more than an acre-and-a-half is lost every second of every day (refer to the entries below to see, quantitatively, what that translates into). That’s an area more than twice the size of Florida that goes up in smoke every year! "If present rates of destruction continue, half our remaining rainforests will be gone by the year 2025, and by 2060 there will be no rainforests remaining."
THE COST OF RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION
. . . "almost half of the world’s original four billion acres of rainforest are now gone. The lost area equals the combined size of Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada and Arizona."
. . . "in 1500, there were an estimated six to nine million indigenous people inhabiting the tropical rainforests of Brazil. By 1900, that number had dropped to a million. Today, there are less than 250,000 indigenous people left in Brazil."
. . . "man has recently increased nature’s "normal" extinction rate by 10,000%. Most of this increase is taking place in the rainforests."
. . . "by conservative estimates, 9,000 species are going extinct each year, most of them from the rainforests."
. . . "we are presently experiencing the largest mass extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago; only this time it’s occurring at a much faster rate."At the very least, "with the destruction of the tropical rainforests, over half the plant and animal species on earth, as well as numerous indigenous cultures will disappear forever."(2) If strong and decisive action is not taken immediately to reverse the destruction of this vital ecosystem, the consequences will be catastrophic. In fact, many scientists agree that the earth could very well become uninhabitable for virtually every living species, including humans!
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The solution is not that we should drive less if one can not. Many people just choose to drive because that is big luxury/status in a so called free country. The solution is to drive more efficient vehicles and not get the expensive gas guzzling sports car or SUV. But the rich people do as they please anyways and the manufacturers feed the most profitable market.
In the US with Canada following they are moving up the corporate fuel mileage (CAFE) to 35 mpg by 2020 from 24 mpg now.
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It would be a lot simpler to tell the developing nations to stop burning down their Tropical Rainforests. Funding from the CO2 scrubbers can instead go to subsidize the developing nations and prevent further destruction of the world. David Suzuki even says pumping CO2 into the earth is a BAD idea.
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Carbon dioxide is used by plants during photosynthesis to make sugars, which may either be consumed in respiration or used as the raw material to produce other organic compounds needed for plant growth and development.
Removing CO2 from the air will eventually kill everything up and down the food chain due to starvation.
A better idea is to stop the destruction of the Tropical Rainforests in the Amazon and SE Asia. That is where your climate change is coming from when huge areas of Rainforest are burned every year.
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42 votes
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You have to plant the right kinds of trees that do not turn into Giants. Otherwise they get pruned to crap, look ugly, fall apart and die.
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Council has worked with Farmers Market Society to locate a new winter market site at Nat Bailey Stadium. Garden sites an interesting idea, but would need more study.
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What would they be and how would they be stored? Potatoes and onions in a cool dark barn perhaps.
People like farm fresh produce where ever and when ever they can get them in season. Obviously it is because it tastes better.
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Why have a farmers market or community garden in winters months? Nothing grows in the winter, it is to cold and not enough sunlight. Maybe with more global warming but not yet.
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Low footprint food choices are not the same as vegan food choices in all cases, the analysis is more complex than this. Generally a low footprint diet is local, seasonal food, and limits consumption of red meat, dairy, and some grains. Low footprint food choices are included in the draft Greenest City Action Plan and will be discussed through community engagement activities.
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Farms other than those selling specialty items to high end restaurants are barely sustainable on a financial basis. Farming is hard manual labour and most farms are short on labour because it does not pay well. During harvest season immigrants and import workers seem to be the only ones working in the fields.
Some of you Vegans should look into or go work on a farm to see what it takes to actually grow and harvest things grown on a farm locally. In California, USA, there is lots of cheap Mexican labourers to get veggies onto the store shelves many miles away.
Crops that are grown for feed are those that have advanced to a stage where mechanized harvesting is used requiring only drivers of large Air conditioned tractors and trucks.
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For most people in the world being a Vegan is not possible because crops do not grow year round. Veggies only have a short growing season and most do not store fresh very long. Crop disease, insect infestation, Honey bees dieing off, drought all affect crops. One bad season and you starve.
That is why humans like some animals have adapted to eating a variety of foods, whether grain, vegan, or meat.The most meat people eat in a serving is the size of your palm about 4 oz is really just a small piece.
Take some info from actual Vegans not those promoting an agenda.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=vegan+sick&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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Vegan food can make you sick. A vegan diet can not supply all the necessary nutrition in your diet - such as B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12, Iron, perhaps a few minerals like calcium, magnesium, zinc etc.
Also as more people start eating more vegan , vegetables become mass produce and become contaminated with bacteria such as e.coli and Salmonella.
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With all the agricutural land going for industrial and residential developments. Where are you going to grow your vegan?
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10 votes
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Nothing is free. Someone has to pay for security and the land.
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15 votes
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2 votes
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Depends on the cost. Locally, there are no granite quarries in Vancouver.
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11 votes
The draft Greenest City Action Plan will include directions to advance parking policies that encourage a reduction in vehicle ownership and driving, support sustainable transportation choices, and increase housing affordability near transit. Better management of curbside parking will help to reduce cruising and congestion caused by drivers searching for an available space. Redesigning the residential parking permit program will address parking spillover concerns associated with off-street reductions and better reflect actual street space value.
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People that rent their homes have renters parking their cars on public side streets. The streets at night are just load with vehicles. Yes they should have a parking permit to park on the street. At least the city can get some revenue from all the illegal suites.
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11 votes
This is under provincial jurisdiction.
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Bikes should be taxed more to help pay even for a tiny bit of the Bike roads.
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60 votes
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The problems with planting edibles like apples, cherry, blues etc, Is the **** birds get them all long before anyone else. The big fruits that fall on the ground then become food for mice, rats, ants, skunks, etc.
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113 votes
Point taken that adjusting costs of different travel modes to support more sustainable choices is a good idea. The City will continue to review parking fees to better reflect street value and market demand, and the Greenest City Plan adds a more explicit environmental lense to this work. Transit fares fall outside City jurisdiction, and there are multiple factors to consider. Fares are an important revenue source for TransLink; at the same time, it is important that prices are affordable and equitable.
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Translink should be forced to cut their high wages just like every country, county and city in the world that begs for handouts due to high debt. Then they can reduce their debt and offer better pricing on their transit fares.
But because it is a monopoly they do as they **** well please with no long term fears of losing their customers.Lets see how long the next strike lasts. I for one will Drive More because I can drive cheaper and not be held hostage by translink.
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5 votes
This is a great idea that is outside City jurisdiction
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The problem is not that transit is not going faster, everyone is grid LOCKED.
City transportation will not synchronize traffic lights with pedestrian lights.
So everyone gets stuck behind RED Lights all day long. Look how traffic flows in the one way green zone coming off the cambie street or dunsmuir. You can get from one end to the other hitting all green in a few minutes.
If you hit every RED it would take almost an hour to wait for the REDS, Left turns, pedestrians, Rights, etc.
Take a look at the mess at the Canada Line station on Cambie and Marine.
You have everything there causing a delay. -
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An outright ban on power/pressure washers is not part of the Draft Greenest City Action Plan, but education about appropriate uses and alternatives to their use is part fo the plan.
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Power washers actually use less water because they can clean more efficiently using high pressure (> 2000 PSI). It is better than cleaning using a nozzle on a water hose. Plus power washers have special attachments to make cleaning jobs go even faster.
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6 votes
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Garbage truck is for garbage and recycling truck is for recycling and you can not mix garbage with recycling. Garbage in garbage out quick quick. Mix and it is garbage in garbage out wait forever for the recycling, how come no garbage pickup yet?
The garbage truck can only pickup from one side because that is the way it is designed. A dual side system is possible but at twice the cost for the taxpayers.Our Diesel fleet runs on BIO-Diesel.
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360 votes
This is acknowledged as a key strategy to better integrate cycling and transit. In 07/2009 the City committed some funding for secure parking facilities at Broadway-City Hall and Olympic Village Canada Line stations. The City has also conducted a feasibility study for a downtown bike centre.
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58 votes
City of Vancouver is considering the possibility of a ban for all new residential construction. This idea is considered in the draft Greenest City Action Plan.
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Should also Ban charcoal BBQing.
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14 votes
The City does not have jursidiction in this area, though the best way to send price signals to discourage the use of air conditioners may be through sales tax administered by the provincial government.
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Create a credit for Solar powered Air conditioners.
