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 [...]

That’s $2.11 per litre in metric calculation.
This article is American, and thus doesn’t completely match our situation up north, but there’s still a ton of food for thought in this oped by Chris Pummer.
You’ll note that even though I may not specifically state that my platform is to confront the issue of peak oil, and [...]