On AlterNet: vancouver

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Photo Tour: What Will It Take To Make Our Cities 100% Green?

Sven Eberlein, Daily Kos. March 20, 2012.

Vancouver, BC is pioneering the most aggressive urban sustainability project in North America. So -- how's it going?

An Expat's Guide to the Vancouver Olympics

Sara Robinson, AlterNet. February 10, 2010.

Vancouver does things its own strange and subtle ways that the media hordes will only begin to be noticing by the time these Games are over.

Vancouver's Games Will Be the Gayest Olympics Ever

Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. February 9, 2010.

With the opening of Olympic Pride Houses and more openly gay athletes, the Olympics are finally coming out of the closet.

Meet the Protest Groups at the Vancouver Olympics

Geoff Dembicki, The Tyee. February 4, 2010.

What will happen on downtown streets when home-grown activists, civil society crusaders, out-of-town idealists and native naysayers meet $900 million worth of security?

Is Vancouver About to Become the Greenest City in the World?

Allan Badiner, AlterNet. July 30, 2009.

The city has made a rapid transition: It draws 90% of its energy from renewables, has a booming bicycle culture and a very popular progressive mayor.

Supervised Drug-Injection Facilities in New York? Yes We Should (and Can)!

Tony Newman, AlterNet. May 23, 2009.

If we're serious about real drug reform, let's create a space where users can take their drugs in a sterile, safe environment.

Canadian Lawyers Seek to Prosecute Bush, Get Him Banned

Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress. March 12, 2009.

Lawyers from up north are going after Bush for his role in authorizing torture.

Vancouver's Radical Approach to Drugs: Let Junkies Be Junkies

Vince Beiser, Miller-McCune Magazine. November 18, 2008.

Welcome to North America's only officially sanctioned "supervised injection site."

'The Dope Craze That's Terrorizing Vancouver'

Lani Russwarm, The Tyee. August 26, 2008.

The long, true history of hard drugs in Canada's poorest neighborhood.

Sex Workers Plan Brothel in 2010 Olympics City

Wency Leung, Women's eNews. October 13, 2007.

Will building a brothel help curb violence against women?