TalkGreenToUs.ca - Goal #6

A vision this bold cannot be realized alone. That's why the city is inviting you to talk green to them.

Share your ideas for making Vancouver the greenest city in the world. Help them make the critical choices. Help them prioritize between blue-sky visions and immediate opportunities. This is your city – make it better. Between now and October 7, add your voice to this life-changing conversation. Share your ideas or vote on the ones you like.

The City of Vancouver has ten greenest city goals. Learn about all ten, and tell them how you think they can best be achieved at www.talkgreentous.ca.

Imagine 2020. In just ten years, Vancouver will be the greenest city in the world.

GOAL #6: Access to Nature

Every person lives within a five-minute walk (300 metres) of a park, beach, greenway, or other natural space, and we have planted 150,000 additional trees

Vancouver has been inspired by the sighting of grey whales in False Creek and Coal Harbour, the first in many decades, and the resumption of spawning by herring, after years of absence, in formerly industrial False Creek.

A large majority (71 per cent) of Vancouver residents live within 300m of a park or beach — 85 per cent, counting schoolyards. Vancouver has more than 200 diverse parks, and an estimated 1 million trees.

CHALLENGES:

150,000 trees could require up to 200 acres of land. Finding suitable locations for these trees in parks, along streets, and on private property will require innovations and possibly changes to zoning.

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