It’s a beautiful fall morning in Calgary: a welcome breather at the end of a long week of Plan It discussions and a chance to regroup before Monday’s Council deliberations begin. To everyone who read, drafted, edited, pubbed (all work and no play? not our style), emailed, tweeted and blogged for Plan It this week, I hope you’re still in your jammies and enjoying a leisurely cup of coffee. Or doing whatever it is you love to do on a Saturday morning like this one.
If, like me, you love to read when you get a quiet moment, here are some inspiring articles to bookmark for this weekend. They focus on cities – Stockholm and Copenhagen - that are considered amongst the most sustainable and liveable anywhere. AND they’re northern cities to boot, not known for temperate climates and with far less sunshine than Calgary boasts year round.
From the Globe & Mail’s Travel Section we have the Green Streets of Stockholm, the city that was crowned The Green Capital of Europe for 2010, and from the Worldchanging website, our very own Chris Turner shares a series of postcards from Copenhagen. Under Wanderlusting on the Sustainability Trail you’ll find The Welcome Mat in Copenhagen, Livability, Lego Power and Copenhagen Cycle Culture .
Oh, and when you’ve finished your coffee and your reading and you’ve got yourself dressed and ready for your day, don’t forget to email your Alderman. Tell them that in future you want to read articles that say adopting Plan It in 2009 led Calgary to become a model for sustainability and liveability around the world.
