I keep getting asked how the conference went and I think if they really want to reduce consumption by 80% they have to invite to the table some of the people they vilified and poked fun at, the oil companies, the car companies, the mining companies. Vancouver may not have the former, but they have the latter, where were the Teck-Comicos, the Barricks? They talked about green tech and investment but I didn’t see any of those folks represented, where was Pangea or Day4Energy?
If you want to reduce consumption by 80% and make Vancouver the Greenest City in the World they are going to have to engage with the aforementioned corporations and many more. After all they all call Vancouver home and so do their staff.
Here is more coverage and commentary that my Google Alerts found:
- Urban Resilience: climate change, peaking resources, economic crash. Next?
- New York’s transformation sends us a message
- Vancouver Makes a Bright Green Future its Official Goal
