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After 17 extraordinary days of athlete performances and 7 years of planning, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games are over, and Pulse Energy’s Venue Energy Tracker has shown them to be the most energy efficient Olympics ever. IOC president Jacques Rogge has declared that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will be the blueprint for the sustainability of all future Games.
The total energy savings recorded by the Venue Energy Tracker were 906 MWh. That’s enough energy for Canadian Olympic hockey team member and Gold medallist Katie Weatherston to play 1.7 million full games or Canadian Olympic Ski-cross team member Julia Murray to race down the ski-cross course 100 million times.  Vancouver Olympic Flame is Extinguished So here I sit, in downtown Vancouver on a dreary Monday morning following the closing of the biggest event in Vancouver history. Today reality sets in and we all try to adjust back to a post-Olympic existence, and start dealing with the hang-over the 17 day party has left. It seems some people expected all the roads to be back to normal already so they all decided to drive to work today. It took almost 30 minutes for the bus I was on to get through Chinatown and East-Van. It would sure be terrific if traffic remained reduced from pre-Olympic levels and at least some people discovered public transit was, for them, a cheaper and viable option. It was certainly enjoyable walking around downtown and not gagging on exhaust fumes! Otherwise, today I mainly see a lot of folks walking along pulling luggage behind them. The line-ups which have been a fixture for 17 days are gone from the Bay, and the now-closed Royal Canadian Mint House. One person I know walked right in and bought a jacket at the Bay on the way to work today. Myself, I just walked over to the cauldron and discovered I could stroll right up to the much talked about, and much maligned, chain link fencing. On Saturday February 13, 2010 1500+ took part in the “Dancing in the Streets” Flash mob on Robson St in Vancouver, BC. Check out this simply amazingly beautiful 5 minute video of Vancouver (watch in HD) from the InnerLifeProject! Our city has never looked so good! Welcome World to the 2010 Winter Olympics!
Life in the cities bring us into contact with dogs, cats and birds. They live with us and are our friends. We cultivate that living relationship by giving them a nice comfortable place to live and we feed them with every type of food. All they need to do in life is love us. Life for animals in the wild is a whole other story. These animals must forage for food or starve. It’s that simple. To survive they learn very early in life that they are going to need to find their own. Their parents feed them for a little while then they are taught how to hunt. Once they learn they are on their own. They do not need us to provide food for them. They are wild and independent. You the visitor should understand this before you leave for your trip to the mountains and valleys surrounding the Whistler corridor. Continue reading Whistler, BC Animals in the Wild – Are You Prepared to Meet Them?
 Statue of Harry Jerome 1. Stanley Park Located just off the main downtown core, this 1000 acre park is one of the finest in the world. Encompassing a variety of gardens, animals, activities and spectacular ocean views, Stanley Park has something for everyone. Visitors can enjoy a leisurely few hours playing pitch and putt, spend a few hours at Vancouver’s Aquarium, observe wildlife such as raccoons, beavers, ducks swans and turtles in Lost Lagoon, inhale fragrant blooms at the Ted ad Mary Grieg Rhododendron Garden and the Stanley Park Rose Pavilion or travel the 9km seawall by bike or foot taking in beautiful ocean vistas or unearthing tiny crabs and looking at Starfish. 2. University of British Columbia Campus |
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