City of Vancouver: Greenest City 2020

30 Jul 2010

The City of Vancouver has a goal to be the Greenest City in the world by 2020.  It will be a city where the majority of trips are made by foot, bicycling, and public transit.  New buildings will be carbon neutral and existing buildings will be more efficient.  It will be a city where every person lives within a five-minute walk of a park, beach, greenway, or natural space.  There will be more trees, more green jobs, lower greenhouse gas emissions, clean air, clean water and local food. 

These are just some of the greenest city 2020 targets we are striving towards. 

A vision this bold can not be realized alone.  Over the next few months the City of Vancouver invites you to Talk Green to Us and share your ideas on how we can achieve these 2020 targets.  Working groups will be considering these ideas as they create their implementation plans. 

Visit http://talkgreentous.ca and pitch your idea, vote for your favourites or join the conversation. 

Some hot topics right now:

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  • Develop a complete cycling network that feels safe and attractive to all

  • Extend food waste collection program to include apartments and condos

  • Encourage urban food production

  • Change the Building Code to require rainwater collection & water efficient irrigation systems

  • Mandatory 25¢ fee for plastic shopping bags

  • Daylight our lost creeks

  
  

We know you have great ideas and we want to hear them!

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Learn more at: http://vancouver.ca/greenestcity/

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