Vancouver's green revolution comes to Ottawa

The Deputy Mayor of Vancouver Andrea Reimer came to town September 16 and wowed a 350 strong audience at City Hall with the why and how of becoming the greenest city on earth. Vancouver city council has worked over three elections on the plan to become the greenest city in the world by 2020, and now stands at fourth. Techniques revealed included implementing as many environmental improvements as they could think of (84) even before they had an official greening plan; and engaging hundreds of thousands of citizens in pushing for green improvements. Other ingredients included strong leadership and a clear action plan. Ottawa’s Chair of Environment Committee Councillor David Chernushenko said “there is no reason why we could not or should not be doing everything that Vancouver is doing.”

Here is a link to some of the videos from that night.

http://ecologyottawa.ca/2015/09/21/video-vancouvers-green-revolution-comes-to-ottawa/