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The sustainability roller coaster

If you work in the sustainability field full time, you ride a roller coaster. There are incredible, interesting, hopeful things going on – many rife with opportunity for innovation and new business. At the same time, there?s the grinding reality: a serious challenge that collectively we are not doing nearly enough to fix.

Jim Sinclair: Does Occupy Vancouver have a legitimate concern about the wealthy 1%?

Yes: Government needs to apply tough medicine to an ailing economic system
Penny Green Green and growing

Penny Green Green and growing

Penny Green, a single mother with three children, started her boutique securities law firm when she was 26; she now has a staff of 14

They might not be exciting, but pipeline and power utility stocks are a good bet in volatile markets

Investors looking for opportunities to hedge their bets in volatile markets might consider pipeline and power utility stocks. Although this group of stocks is not particularly exciting, it offers several appealing benefits.
Iain Black Black's board

Iain Black Black's board

Former provincial cabinet minister Iain Black is banking on his reputation as a fixer to breathe new life into the Vancouver Board of Trade

Taxi monopoly now fare game at YVR

Those stress fractures in the solidarity of the Lower Mainland taxi brotherhood recently uncovered by Business in Vancouver points to several cab industry issues worth revisiting.

Seeking supremacy in livable city sweepstakes

Those quality-of-life lists can get quickly silly when we take them too seriously. Vancouver dropped to third place on the Economist Intelligence Unit?s Most Livable Cities list earlier this year, with Melbourne and Vienna moving up to first and second. That hurt.

How to become more strategic with your time

I remember sitting in a productivity seminar in an Entrepreneurs? Organization Conference in Chicago a few years ago when the speaker asked a series of interesting questions.

Developers need community amenity contributions clarity

Some developers say that when they were negotiating with former City of Vancouver chief planner Larry Beasley, he made them feel like he was making love. Only after it was over did they realize they?d been screwed.
745 Thurlow half leased, but Cambie Street sites might stall as buyers misread community amenity contribution factor

745 Thurlow half leased, but Cambie Street sites might stall as buyers misread community amenity contribution factor

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