Environment

The pressure is off for many B.C. municipalities reluctant to sign a new recycling contract many had complained was one-sided and unrealistic.

The City of Vancouver has said it will opt in to a controversial new recycling program – but only if it can renegotiate a contract that so far has not been up for discussion, council stated today (September 13).

An exhibition of sustainable Swiss architecture at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, opening today (September 12) and running through September 20, aims to teach locals how to build in a way that causes little burden to the environment.

Local recyclers and composters gear up for food-scraps business boom as 9.3-hectare composting facility installed in Richmond

The City of Vancouver is extending a pilot beverage container recycling program that was launched last summer as part of the city’s green initiative by installing 100 new recycling bins around the city.

For tens of thousands of public servants and contract workers, carbon is a gold rush

Credit Suisse Real Estate Asset Management has received the green light from the City of Vancouver to construct what will be one of Canada’s tallest sustainable office towers, the real-estate giant announced August 12.

Vancouver's Fairware – promo products with a difference

The B.C. government has put out a call to First Nations, local government and community organizations on the B.C. coast to apply for $1 million funding for projects designed to clean up debris washing up from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Scientists are calling for more of Canada's vast boreal forest to be protected against logging, mining and oil and gas activity, which they say threatens wildlife habitats.