Earth Equity News

Vancouver Olympic Organizers Given a 'Bronze Medal' for Green Efforts. By Janet Guttsman, Reuters, February 11, 2010. "Sites for Vancouver's Winter Olympics boast low-flow toilets that use rainwater to flush, energy efficient grass-clad roofs and separate bins for compostable waste, setting them on course to meet ambitious environmental targets. But critics are giving the Games a bronze medal at best, and that was before the officials started airlifting snow to a rained-out ski- and snowboard hill just outside a snowless Vancouver... A sparkling new Canada Line monorail whisks passengers from Vancouver Airport to downtown in a matter of minutes, but Organizers opted to double to the size of the Sea to Sky highway linking Vancouver with the Alpine center at Whistler rather than trying to build a train."