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Economic Diversity

Peak Oil and Planning Edmonton’s Future

by Colin Beddoes 02.25.2010

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture at City Hall by Richard Heinberg, an award-winning author and educator. Heinberg, who hails from the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa California, is a futurist and leading international commentator on Peak Oil. He is the first speaker in the City of Edmonton’s Distinguisher Speaker [...]

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From Edmonton to Edmonton 2.0

by Ashley Casovan 02.16.2010
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Since returning from CityCamp at the end of January, I’ve been immersed in the world of #opengov #gov2.0 and the City’s work on #yegdata. I know this probably doesn’t make sense to many of the people reading this, but I’ll try and do my best to explain. No promises though, I’m still trying to wrap my [...]

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Your City, Your Voice

by Marilyn Kontz 02.08.2010
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Last week I got to facilitate a discussion group for the first event in Next Gen’s Engage: Your City, Your Voice series. Wait, you haven’t heard about this before? What is Engage: Your City, Your Voice? Well, let me fill you in!
The series of Engage: Your City, Your Voice discussions brings together Edmontonians from all [...]

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The Importance of ICLEI

by Barry Anderson 12.07.2009
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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 not [...]

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Open Data and You: Low Fat & Acronym Free

by Devin Serink 12.04.2009
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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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