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The City of Edmonton’s Environment branch has started a new campaign called Be Idle Free: A Minute or Less is Best. The campaign is trying to get drivers to turn off their car’s engine when they think they will be stopped for more than one minute, except in traffic. A campaign like this has one [...]
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Christmas is coming, even on the Interwebs, and this blogger will soon be off until January (I know, I just got started!). But I leave you with a way you can combine your holiday spirit, your Edmonton spirit and your green spirit in a way that even Scrooge would love. Yes, I’m talking about ecards (was there [...]
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Last June the City had the chance to host the ICLEI World Congress 2009 and I was fortunate to chair the event organizing committee. It was exciting to welcome over 600 municipal leaders from 56 countries to Edmonton talk about environmental sustainability. So what made hosting ICLEI such an important event for Edmonton? You may [...]
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It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when my interest in Open Data first came into being. My work on collaboration technology here at the City must have sparked it, as I started to really appreciate the incredible capacity, creativity and value of both the global and local community. So what does this have to do [...]
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So exactly what is active transportation? Simply speaking, it is any mode of transportation that you power with your own body. It is the most basic element of any transportation system. Walking, cycling, inline skating, skateboarding, running, jogging, pogo-sticking… all of these are active transportation. Almost every type of trip starts with walking, whether it’s to [...]
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