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New Incentives to Improve for Organic Food Quality

New Incentives to Improve for Organic Food Quality

March 04, 2010

New initiative to meet the Obama Administration's promise to encourage more organic agriculture production.


Your Taco, Deconstructed

Your Taco, Deconstructed

March 04, 2010

Examining the ingredients in a taco paints a picture of the globalization of our food production network.


Olympic Athletes Commit to Protect the Environment

Olympic Athletes Commit to Protect the Environment

February 27, 2010

Over two hundred athletes from over 40 countries have made a commitment to take environmental action during and after the Olympic Games


Buying locally grown food will not help the environment

Buying locally grown food will not help the environment

February 16, 2010

Buying locally as measured in "food miles" - the distance between where food is grown and where it is sold - is a poor indictor of a product's impact on the environment and is thus not a valid way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.


Olympic Village hailed world's greenest neighbourhood

Olympic Village hailed world's greenest neighbourhood

February 16, 2010

The newly-constructed Vancouver neighbourhood housing Olympic and Paralympic athletes and coaches during the 2010 Games now has a new distinction to add to its resume: the world's greenest.


Green is the new Gold for 2010

Green is the new Gold for 2010

February 12, 2010

The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have added another color to its coveted gold, silver and bronze medal lineup – green! For the first time in Olympic history, the 2010 athlete medals contain metals from end-of-life electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste.


Google Maps gets slope view in time for the Winter Olympics

Google Maps gets slope view in time for the Winter Olympics

February 11, 2010

Web skiers now able to experience some of the runs the world’s best skiers will be racing down when the Winter Olympics kicks off this week. The slope-level imagery complements new aerial imagery of the Vancouver-Whistler area to give sports fans a different perspective of competition venues and courses


Local Pressure for Olympic Podium Mounts

Local Pressure for Olympic Podium Mounts

February 11, 2010

Majority (60%) of BC Residents Believe Canada will best its 2006 Turin Winter Games Standings at 2010 Olympics Majority (53%) in Host Province “Excited” as Opening Ceremony Nears


Seven Years to Overnight Success - 2010 Games On Track to Carbon Neutrality

Seven Years to Overnight Success - 2010 Games On Track to Carbon Neutrality

February 11, 2010

The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games may officially start on Friday but seven years of sustainability efforts have already started to pay off, with a carbon neutral Organizing Committee, torch relay and athletes, 62 Games-related sustainability innovations and 200 at-risk youth and new Canadians trained in a community-based carpentry program.


Fuel cell buses deployed to take visitors to Winter Olympics

Fuel cell buses deployed to take visitors to Winter Olympics

February 06, 2010

Visitors hailing to Vancouver for the Winter Olympic Games starting next week will be pleased to be welcome by hydrogen fuel cell buses.


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