I recently wrote a letter to the Editors of both of the Surrey Leader and The Now about the City’s Newton Plan. Apparently both Laila Yuile and I agree that plants and banners don’t help get to the core of the problems in this community. You can view pictures of the beautification efforts below. 
I recently [...]

In a bid to protect its trees from developers who consider them nuisances, this city is assigning a monetary value to every tree in its 100,000-plus urban forest. The value is how much people will have to pay if they yield to the urge to play lumberjack. Bringing down one wide and towering American elm [...]

According to some doomsday scenarios, spiking gas prices could turn the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages that surround North America’s cities - built over the past 60 years and designed for the convenience of people with cars - into tomorrow’s slums.
The predictions for the most part come from subscribers to the theory of “peak oil,” which [...]

When Shaun Yandell proposed to his longtime girlfriend Gina Marasco on the doorstep of their new home in the sunny suburb of Elk Grove, California, four years ago, he never imagined things would get this bad. But they did, and it happened almost overnight.
“It is going to be heartbreak,” Yandell told CNN. “But we are [...]