by mvboronowski | Mar 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[This is the final piece in a multi-part series examining the city through the lens of the Green Metropolis, by David Owen] A dynamically balanced ecosystem does not use less. On the surface, an ecology is blatantly wasteful; how many seeds dropped from a tree take...
by mvboronowski | Mar 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[This is the fourth piece in a multi-part series examining the city through the lens of the Green Metropolis, by David Owen] As a fundamentally descriptive work, the Green Metropolis does not elaborate a detailed panacea to the problem of the contemporary city. In...
by mvboronowski | Mar 29, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[This is the third piece in a multi-part series examining the city through the lens of the Green Metropolis, by David Owen] The book ends by describing a trip the author took to Beijing, where he found a walkable, dense city being rapidly eaten by the automobile. A...
by mvboronowski | Mar 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
[This is the second piece in a multi-part series examining the city through the lens of the Green Metropolis, by David Owen] Should Manhattan move to us? When offered the magic wand which to transform Vancouver, David declined. ‘Sweeping changes always leads to...
by mvboronowski | Mar 27, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? I’m Paul Nixey. I live in Vancouver’s West End, and own a scrappy little communications agency called Nixey Communications. We work with non-profits, progressive companies and public figures to help tell their stories, and have a strict...
