![2012 Agriculture Awareness Grant Application]( "2012 Agriculture Awareness Grant Application") | The application form is now online. Metro Vancouver provides grants to non-profit organizations to conduct agriculture awareness activities and to educate the public about local food in this region. The deadline for submitting the application form is March 5, 2012.
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![Smoking Banned in Regional Parks]( "Smoking Banned in Regional Parks") |
Smoking is now prohibited in all Metro Vancouver regional parks to protect park users from the health hazards of second-hand smoke.
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![Compendium of Metro Vancouver's Regional Management Plans]( "Compendium of Metro Vancouver's Regional Management Plans") | Metro Vancouver’s Roadmap to Sustainability, a compendium of management plans for the region’s utility and other services, was released today. The compendium, comprising a contextual overview and nine different sustainability-based plans, documents how the commitment, made almost a decade ago when the Sustainable Regional Initiative was conceived, will be realized.
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On October 21, 2011 government officials and community members gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the first Metro Vancouver Sustainability Academy: The Annacis Wastewater Centre. The Annacis Wastewater Centre is a place of excellence in wastewater research and development, training and education – a place that challenges us to transform our approach to managing and treating wastewater, promoting energy reduction, reuse of materials and mitigating environmental impacts.
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Metro Vancouver is committed to improving reduction, reuse and recycling efforts so that by 2015, a minimum of 70% of our waste is kept out of disposal (landfill or waste-to-energy). The current rate is 55%. Metro Vancouver has set an aspirational goal of achieving 80% by 2020. It’s a local and global issue – learn more ...
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The new iParks Explorer is free to download on iTunes. Find information on parks, services and programs. While you’re there, download the free Tap Map App.
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| NEW! Metro Vancouver is developing a new water use plan for the Capilano and Seymour Watersheds. A committee of representatives is being formed to engage in discussions about the Joint Water Use Plan. – learn more...
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Easily locate water fountains and places to get a drink or refill your bottle
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Continue the conversation and share your feedback. |
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On January 14, 2011, the Metro Vancouver Board gave second reading to the Regional Growth Strategy Bylaw, and will submit the RGS to affected local governments to consider acceptance. The RGS provides long term guidance for coordinated regional land use decision-making.
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MAX is Metro Vancouver’s new regional online arts and culture guide. It’s easy to use and a free tool for arts organizations and individuals from across the region to promote events. |
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| On June 25th leaders and citizens from the region came together to grapple with some of the most pressing issues facing our time.
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Province approves new waste management plan. Based on years of public consultation, the plan is founded on the overriding principle of waste avoidance.
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![Metro Vancouver 2040 - An Award-Winning Regional Land Use Plan]( "Metro Vancouver 2040 - An Award-Winning Regional Land Use Plan") | Metro Vancouver won this year’s public sector Land Award. An annual Real Estate Foundation of B.C. award that recognizes the sustainable use and conservation of land has been presented to Metro Vancouver for the Regional Growth Strategy adopted this year.
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 | This popular, online resource tells you where to take your old stuff. De-clutter your home, and reduce your waste. Batteries, furniture, toys, wood…there are 100’s of items.
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Beginning now, lawn sprinkling is only permitted in the mornings from 4 am to 9 am. Even addresses may water lawns on Monday, Wednesday or Saturday, and odd addressees may water lawns on Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday. Find out more...
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People with iPhones and iPads can now more easily navigate their way around Metro Vancouver’s regional parks following release of the newest app, iParks Navigator.
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| Metro Vancouver constructed a new fishway this summer in Burnaby Lake Regional Park to make it easier for fish to get around its dam on the Brunette River.
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The 2005 Regional Parks and Greenway Plan is being updated. Please join in the discussion: Open House on September 14, from 6 to 8pm, at Metro Vancouver Head Office; Webinar from 11:30 to 12:30 on Thursday, September 15th.
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![Integrated Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Management Plan]( "Integrated Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Management Plan") |
On Oct. 28, 2011, the Board approved a broader Integrated Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Management Plan that outlines goals, strategies and actions for implementation within the region over the next decade.
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 | The great news is that people in Metro Vancouver are recycling more than ever. But we can do more – Watch Your Waste.
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| A bylaw approved by the Board on Feb. 25 will save lives by cutting back on emissions of diesel soot from industrial and construction machines like excavators and forklifts.
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| Metro Vancouver’s 2011 Action Plan lays out specific goals, targets and actions to meet regional priorities
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Have too much food waste? Download your checklist here. And while you’re at it, learn about food scraps recycling and watch a video on how composting will save the planet.
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 | Find out more about the latest solid waste plan for the region called the Integrated Solid Waste and Resource Management Plan.
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Metro Vancouver is seeking feedback on a new integrated Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Management Plan. The plan strives to minimize the risk to human health from air pollution, improve visibility and reduce Greater Vancouver’s contribution to global climate change.
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As part of the ongoing communications in support of the Zero Waste Challenge, Metro Vancouver is launching a social media campaign this summer to “Free the Trash”. The objective is to motivate residents to tell us about how they are committed to reducing one item in their household garbage. A $100 iTunes gift certificate will be awarded each week for the duration of the campaign, which will end September 16.
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| The Metro Vancouver Board has approved a new Drinking Water Management Plan that ensures residents will continue to have access to safe and affordable drinking water. The plan also ensures the region’s drinking water resources and infrastructure are managed sustainably.
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| This TSR episode looks at the role of industrial land in Metro Vancouver and planning for the challenges that lie ahead..
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| Metro Vancouver’s strategic priorities and key deliverables for 2010 are outlined in the Metro Vancouver Action Plan 2010.
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 | Help us put a face on the region’s shortage of affordable rentals. RentersSpeakUp.org is part of a broad campaign to push for senior government action to stimulate new construction of rental units.
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Last fall, two rock-slicing Tunnel Boring Machines or TBMs finished work on two parallel tunnels. The tunnels start near the water filtration plant in the Lower Seymour Conservation reserve and end at a new pumping station near the Capilano Reservoir. Both horizontal tunnels are almost four metres in diameter and about seven kilometres long. Tunnel boring work concluded today when the second of two vertical shafts reached the surface at the Capilano end.
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| Watch a live video feed from an active barn owl nest at Campbell Valley Regional Park.
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This year’s Homeless Count found no increase in homelessness and more people using shelters.
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The draft Ecological Health Action Plan is a pragmatic next step based on short-term actions clearly within Metro Vancouver’s mandate. We have two upcoming opportunities for you to join us for discussion.
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![This holiday season, you can be a Green Angel too]( "This holiday season, you can be a Green Angel too") |
What do bungee jumping, opera tickets & snowboard lessons have in common? They are all great gift ideas in our annual holiday waste reduction campaign. This year, we encourage residents to Create Memories, Not Garbage during the holidays. Send a free e-card, watch videos on memorable stories and unique gift ideas and learn more about the garbage issue.
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Effective Jan 1, 2011 management and operation of Grant Narrows in Pitt Meadows along with the recreational services it provides will revert to the Province of B.C.
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The Drinking Water Management Plan ensures that our safe drinking water needs will be met affordably and sustainably. Metro Vancouver is now in the process of updating the plan to reflect current strategic direction.
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Funding assistance applications are now available to arts and culture organizations for regional projects.
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Let Federal Election candidates know how traffic gridlock impacts your commute – and your family – through this on-line tool developed by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities #CutMyCommute |
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| Metro Vancouver residents are eligible to receive a $250 rebate for trading in their old wood burning appliance for a new low emission appliance.
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