Category: An environmentally responsible city

Kick-off speech at the Petroleum Club

For those of you who couldn’t attend my campaign announcement yesterday, we captured the whole thing on video. You can watch it directly below, or read the whole speech yourself. After less than one day, the support Edmontonians have shown me has been inspiring. I’m looking forward to seeing and meeting you on the campaign… Read More

The Way We Green

Earlier today I helped launch the City’s next big planning exercise, namely the new environmental strategic plan dubbed ‘The Way We Green‘. It’s picking up after the 2006 Environmental Strategic Plan, which was good but more internally focused on the city and not very high-profile. The project is building on the widespread consultations in 2008… Read More

Medium density supreme

I visited the Mill Creek Flexhomes yesterday, which I heard about because it won an Edmonton Urban Design Award. Turns out I used to serve on a condo board with the designers (Arnold Renschler & Chris Buyze) and it was nice to reconnect with them and see what they’ve been up to. This project has some really… Read More

Good News: City Saves Money on Stuff!

What follows is my January contribution to the Edmonton Examiner’s gracious ‘Councillor Connection‘ column space which rotates among us. Since the Examiner is split run (there are, I believe, seven different versions, each localized to different parts of the city) people outside the South West would not see this. But I thought it might be… Read More