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Mayor releases plan to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020
October 20, 2009
from vancouversun.com
VANCOUVER - Mayor Gregor Robertson announced an ambitious 10-year plan Tuesday to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020.
Robertson presented the plan to Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
“As in many other cities, Vancouver’s ecological footprint is far too large despite having decisions made decades ago to keep freeways out of the city, protect our watershed and to protect agricultural lands surrounding the city,” Robertson told hundreds of delegates to the three-day conference.
“We are still far too reliant on cars and on food from far away,” he said.
“Every day, we produce too much waste, consume too much energy and water.”
Robertson, who was elected a year ago after running a strong green campaign, unveiled a 10-point plan he said would put Vancouver into the forefront of cities concerned with reducing their ecological footprints.
Full article by the Vancouver Sun’s Gerry Bellet here.
