The Suzuki Diaries Assignment
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Dominic Luong
Montreal “The most bike-friendly city in the nation” – Montreal is starting to
become a city which uses bike as their major transportation. They are going to
double their bike paths from 400 to 800 kilometers also they are going to have a
public bike service called “Bixi” so if you are someone who uses bike for your main
source of transportation you’ll be in luck. Montreal will also be having some of the
strongest laws about pesticides and air-quality so you can always have a breath of
fresh air whenever you are at Montreal.
The bike paths have their own lane that differs from the
pedestrian lane.
http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/06/27/this-is-what-bikesafety-looks-like/
Canada “The green electricity capital” – Calgary is starting to get most of its
electricity from renewable sources and it’s starting to draw 75% of its electricity from
a renewable source and Calgary plans to augment it to 90% by 2012. Calgary also
plans to divert a percent of its waste from landfills by 2020 and to stay under the level
of water being used from 2003 even if the population of Calgary is going higher each
year. “imagineCALGARY” is a program that allows citizen to contribute to make
Calgary a greener place to live in such as reducing the distance travelled yearly by
private vehicle by 20 percent. The city is striving to have clean air and water for years
to come.
One of the sources of renewable energy in Calgary is
windmills.
http://www.abrenewableenergy.ca/about-us.php
Okotoks “The Solar Centre of Canada” – Okotoks is the perfect Sunbelt location in
Alberta so that the Drake Landing Solar Community can set up lots of solar panels.
Okotoks is already warming up 90 percent of its water and living space with all the
solar panels that are being used to get the energy from the sun. Okotoks has more
plans for leading-edge solar, geothermal developments and green buildings. Not
only that Okotoks is using the sun for a main energy use but they are on their way
on having 70-litre-per-person daily water consumption limit and have the lowest
water use in the region. Okotoks has a lot more other plans to make their town
greener such as off-street pedestrian pathways and a composting sewage treatment
plant these are just a few reasons why Okotoks will become better.
- Drake Landing Solar Community - Okotoks,
Alberta. Just a few of the solar panels that is
already implanted.
http://craikliving.com/Solar_Heating.html