http://greeningtheinnercity.ca/2009/10/22/resilient-cities-roundup/ One block at a time Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://greeningtheinnercity.ca/2009/10/22/resilient-cities-roundup/#comment-65 Followup on the ethical purchasing workshop – Corey Burger Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:17:30 +0000 http://greeningtheinnercity.ca/?p=308#comment-65 [...] Greening the Inner-City has picked up on my blog post on the ethical purchasing workshop. He correctly takes me to task for not mentioning the Community Benefits Agreement that was put in place as part of the Olympic Village construction. It had some truly amazing results, training more people than originally planned with a great retention rate. It is a good example of where a city can leverage a large amount of money into large benefits for not only the local community but also the businesses, as they are getting more trained construction workers which are always needed in this part of the world, bust or no bust. [...] [...] Greening the Inner-City has picked up on my blog post on the ethical purchasing workshop. He correctly takes me to task for not mentioning the Community Benefits Agreement that was put in place as part of the Olympic Village construction. It had some truly amazing results, training more people than originally planned with a great retention rate. It is a good example of where a city can leverage a large amount of money into large benefits for not only the local community but also the businesses, as they are getting more trained construction workers which are always needed in this part of the world, bust or no bust. [...]

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