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In this remarkable video, Amanada Burden, Chief City Planner for the City of New York, discusses that cities are about people, where people go and where people have spaces to meet, and what attracts people to successful public places--a place to pause, to stop. A great city is about great open public space, which is also good for the common good. Public space is a place where people want to be, places that tap into your humanity, see into and out of us, where can find your very own seat?

This is a must go to event, David Suzuki and Ian Mauro's Western Canadian Ciitizens as climate leaders tour, featuring the local premiere of Climate Change in Atlantic Canada and discussions in Edmonton (April 22), Calgary (April 23) and Vancouver (April 24).

Without my wonderfully brilliant students at Royal Roads University and CBC radio, I would not be nearly as informed. One of my students ‘tweeted’ this recently, a dramatic picture of climate change impacts.

Hoping to ignite a new era of art enthusiasts now able to experience and contemplate art in the city in their daily lives, this project created Canada's largest outdoor public art gallery, using electronic outdoor billboards in three cities.  The power of collaboration is also shown through Paint the City, a partnership between Artists in Canada and painter David Tycho,  Every community should implement this program, reconnecting aesth

One of my colleagues, Yuill Herbert, has talked about mapping the DNA of sustainability. For me, the most crucial DNA is the social imperative and this video on Lonleliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection offers some startling data on loneliness and health. It teases out characteristics of loneliness, isolation and how as a social species, biologically programmed for connection. There are three levels to connection--intimate, social and collective.

The Vancouver Sun just reported on new social housing built in the Downtown Eastside out of shipping containers.

We live in the best of times and the worst of times. Such a rich information age, and yet, so much misinformation and disinformation. Check out this video for an example of some of the misinformation out there on poverty. What is more troubling to me is the lack of reliable and accurate reporting by the media and its disinformation.

Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, at their annual meeting last month responded to questions from a rightwing thinktank, saying, "If you want me to do things only for ROI [return on investment] reasons, you should get out of this stock."  Writing on his blog, Virgin Group chairman and founder, Sir Richard Branson, Branson said that businesses should take a stand again

This video, besides having wonderful photography, shows the interconnection of life, place and space. What a wonderful world, brings to mind three simple principles for implementating sustainable development--doing no harm, minimizing our interventions wherever possible and the precautionary principle.

A major objective of our climate action research is to elucidate the primary drivers, influences, and (on the other side of the coin) barriers to implementing adaptation and mitigation strategies in local communities.