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Regarding the initiative in Vancouver to become the World’s Greenest city, I witnessed a compelling presentation by some planners from the lower mainland who had just returned from a tour of Stockholm Sweden. They provided a comparison of sustainable undertakings that was humbling and a little shocking.
Though we need motivating language and promotion to drive the sustainability vision, it was clear that “greenest” in this case, clearly depends on how much of the world you are willing to look at. I’m not trying to be negative, but realistically we should be aware of how far behind much of the world we are (decades in some cases), and use this knowledge to take larger and more ambitious actions. The fear of failure and change blocks us, but when we realize that we are somewhere at back of pack anyways we can relax a bit. Instead of people feeling inspired that the PV array we built on Salt Spring Island is the seventh largest Net Metered PV array in the province they are actually dissapointed.