Sunday June 1, 2008 6:00am – Mouth tastes like reclaimed greywater. Amtrak coffee changes this taste, but does not substantially improve it. 8:00 AM – Breakfast of high-fat French toast with high-corn-fructose syrup and nitrate-preservative-drenched sausage patties may help. I wolf this down as we rumble by the abandoned asbestos-laden ...
Uniblog
#brands, #sustainabilty, #vancouver, #beer, #design, #defybrandgravity
Uniblog
#brands, #sustainabilty, #vancouver, #beer, #design, #defybrandgravity
Sustainability goes a bit off the rails…
10:30 AM – migrate to the observation car. More glass, more views. Ranger Clint from the National Park Trails & Rails program commentates on the natural and cultural sites as we chug past Puget Sound. This is a nice touch – a rolling play-by-play to the widescreen panorama. A bald eagle lifts ...
Hoppin’ the Southbound
4:45 AM – Even the birds are rolling over for another hour of sleep. The taxi shows up to take me to the Main Street Station for my 5:30 bus to Seattle, and as though by design, it’s a Prius hybrid. Vancouver’s Terminal Station looks proud in the rising eastern ...
Conference sessions are like restaurant meals. You always want what the other guy got.
So what would YOU choose to go see at Sustainable Brands 08? The issues are broad and diverse: Sustainable design, the social footprint, retaining talent, green building, de-commoditizing, re-branding, sustainable packaging, green wine, greenwash… how to decide? What the heck, unlike most North American Governments, I’m willing to try democracy. ...
Trains, Planes & Automobiles: Booking the Sustainable Road Trip
I began my pre-trip journey on the Carbon Footprint calculator, adding up the emissions for my various travel options from Vancouver BC to Monterey CA. Distance: 2,810 km CO2 emissions if traveling by air: .67 tonnes CO2 emissions if traveling by car (@ 9L/100km): .586 tonnes CO2 emissions if traveling by rail: .169 tonnes (about the weight ...