As Ottawa’s population grows, districts once in decline are making a huge comeback. Wellington Village, on Ottawa’s west end, was considered gritty and lacked shops and services earlier this decade. Now, this neighborhood, where I’ve been staying the past week, is thriving. Shops and restaurants have moved in, homeowners have purchased homes and beautifully refurbished [...]
One way to learn about the Argentine experience, the pride of the Porteños, their glorious and troubled past, and current troubles yet future hope, is to get on the Buenos Aires Metro, which locals call the Subte. Most of the city’s landmarks and business centers are accessible by the Subte—and getting there can give you [...]
Many cities are begging for stimulus funds for transportation projects, which, I’m afraid, could end up with buses and trains going nowhere. Ottawa serves as a model of what works when investing in transportation projects. For a city of 1,000,000, Canada’s capital has a transportation system that is relatively cost effective and convenient. (more…)
We are very removed from our food sources. Few of us have visited a farm. We almost believe that apples really do come from those perfectly contoured plastic packages, and that uniform slabs of steak in a store’s meat section is just the way meat develops. But imagine if you had a farm in [...]
Recently a friend and I attended a day-long LEED workshop in Santa Monica. The instructor was enthusiastic and knowledgeable (in fact, he stayed an extra hour to cover the material with us); the class small, providing a great opportunity to cram in more information; and the venue was a LEED-certified silver showroom, giving us live [...]
Green jobs are hot right now. Well, they are a hot discussion. I’m not convinced a green job revolution is going to transform our economy and employment to the extent that the Internet boom of the 1990s had sparked. I’ve been to many conferences and meetings focusing on “green,” where everyone is asking each other [...]
Imagine that you’re an entrepreneur . . . spent much time and capital developing a product that does some good—in this case, saving customers energy and MONEY—and then getting a nasty-gram from the government saying, well, you owe the utility all the money that you had saved your consumers. Believe it or not, this happened [...]
Editor’s Note: Occasionally, GreenGoPost will take you on a global tour of other cities’ transportation systems. We’ll start in Seoul, South Korea. We believe one of the best ways to get familiar with a city, and learn a little about everyday life, is to get off of the tour bus and to take mass transit. [...]
GreenGoPost will be in Ottawa for the coming week. Yes, that’s Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Many of us south of the border tend to refer to Canada as a whole, but that would be like saying, “Oh, I’m going to the US,” and therefore lumping Hawaii, Maine, Texas, and the Dakotas together. You’ve got the oil [...]
Right now the Armenian-American community, and much of the Armenian diaspora in general, is up in arms over the new protocols in the works between the Armenian and Turkish governments. The history between the Armenians and Turks is a tortured one. My grandmother is an Armenian genocide survivor, and this is a chapter of history [...]