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City is taking a new approach to stormwater management, with the likes of rain gardens, tree trenches and other rainwater ...
Like Vancouver’s roads and buildings, ... Only 19 percent of Vancouver has a tree canopy — roughly 6,000 acres, or 4,600 football fields worth of cover. American Forests, ...
There are hundreds of examples of green-space loss on private property across the city, but council’s decision last July to ...
Plans for a multi-building development in North Vancouver have been altered to accommodate an ancient cedar tree, after an online petition garnered thousands of signatures to save it. Estimated to ...
By 2030, Vancouver Urban Forestry hopes to boost the city's tree canopy -- the portion of land covered by tree crowns -- by nearly 10 percent.
While the amount of land covered by pavement and buildings increased by four per cent in Metro Vancouver’s urban containment boundary between 2014 and 2020, the tree canopy decreased by one per ...
Buildings cause almost one third of global carbon emissions. But today, we have the knowledge to construct buildings that cause no emissions while in use. And in the era of climate change, zero needs ...
Vancouver city council voted Tuesday to allow ‘mass timber’ buildings up to 18 storeys, after initially approving six storeys, then 12 storeys.