As consumer-owned electric vehicles begin to hit Canadian streets, some candidates vying for a seat on the city council are considering Vancouver’s readiness for the cars and the charging infrastructure they require. Dealerships across the lower mainland began to sell Canada’s first widely available electric car models this fall. On Nov. 5, the provincial government [...]
The B.C. government’s announcement of rebates on electric vehicles and their charging stations follows similar programs in Ontario and Quebec. While Vancouver’s mild year-round climate makes it a prime location for electric vehicles, the city has a less developed network of charging stations than Toronto and Montreal. Sean Allan, an engineer for BC Hydro subsidiary [...]
The historic logging boomtown of Port Renfrew is redefining its relationship with old trees. Nestled on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, the town’s livelihood and identity grew out of logging old-growth forests for most of the 20th century. Mechanization of the logging industry in the 1980s led to significant job loss, which forced the [...]
By Lena Smirnova and Carrie Swiggum
Lucy Gregory discovered she doesn’t mind spending time in the dark. Gregory, a first-year student at the University of British Columbia, was part of a UBC team that placed second in a new North America energy-saving competition that ended Nov. 20. UBC was the only Canadian university to participate in the three-week competition between 39 [...]
A 25-metre-long skeleton of a blue whale stunned hundreds of visitors at UBC’s new museum last month. Large skulls, piles of bones, stuffed birds or meticulously assembled rodents intrigued people wandering through the maze of black cabinets. Dimly lit windows offered peaks at jars filled with pickled snakes, lizards or fish that glowed yellow or [...]
Everyday in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, giant cranes move thousands of containers on and off cargo ships. The rotten-egg stench from yellow sulfur piles fills the air. And tankers full of Alberta crude wind through the narrows. There are also harbour seals bobbing up and down checking-out boats and hunting for fish. Hundreds of commuters fill [...]
Jenny Hughes has a problem with reusable shopping bags. Hughes owns , a company that makes high quality, reusable bags in Vancouver. Her organic cotton totes hit the market at the right time: In 2004, plastic shopping bags had just become a environmental issue. She said that Me & You could barely keep up with [...]
The high winds of the Easter weekend brought trees crashing down in Vancouver’s parks and across roadways. In addition to appreciating the wrath of Mother Nature, you may have become more aware of our city’s trees. This week Rod MacNeill takes a look a Vancouver’s urban forest. Listen to his report below.
In 1974 a researcher at the University of Connecticut submitted a paper to the journal Science. He claimed that large amounts of energy could be extracted from the natural mixing of fresh water and salty sea water that occurs at river mouths around the world. The author, Richard Norman, was surprised when the manuscript was [...]
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