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April 30, 2011
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Park City UT has introduced a no idling ordinance. Unecessary idling of a motor vehilce attracts a fine ($100 I think). It does not apply to necessary idling in normal traffic conditions. The Police who enofrce this ordinance have a newish (2009) building built according to green princples and they proudly display the fact with outside information panels. Inside you can pick up a booklet on the subject while you wait to be bailed. It includes a geothermal heat pump system, reflective roof, onsite stormwater management and
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April 28, 2011
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2002 Olymipic Ski Jumps Park City Utah It is time to tell you fellow Fellows about Park City Utah. This is a City of just over 7000 permanent residents, a day time population of close to 30,000. and in the event of an earthquake of around magnitude 7, around 60,000 people would be trapped here for up to a week, or even more, many very wealthy foreign tourists staying in the three ski resorts (one hotel alone has over 100,000m2 of floorspace marketed as ultra luxury, starting at $1200 per night, with apartments around $3m (I had lunch
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April 26, 2011
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Looking for potentail productive partnerships where lobby group at first seem to be just a painfull nuisance.
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April 25, 2011
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Park City has a public carpaprking building with a green roof. the trouble is, most of the time the roof is "white" and in summer it is "brown". They do agree that it needs some sort of loving care to get it to work properly, hey but at least they are prepared to experiement.
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April 25, 2011
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If we need any reminder that this is a small world we share together then this is it. I am a Sustainability and Climate Change Fellow from New Zealand. I am now half way around the world in Park City Utah. There is no snow in the streets, which we don’t get at home. Diane Foster, my Park City Liaison, and I were walking back from a Casino Buffet in Las Vegas Monday evening, following a meeting of mountain west councils on a possible collaboration on Climate Change Adaptation. She was briefing me on who I would meet when we
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April 19, 2011
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Greetings, you may have noticed a number of blogs from the visiting fellows on sustainability and climate change. I am another of the fellows traveling here from a small city county in New Zealand. My fellows have already been at work summarizing our experiences so far, so before we go our separate ways into our host communities I thought I would share one key learning for me, there are others. The big one for me is the importance of sharing; sharing problems, experiences, successful and failed experiments and ideas. We all have differing central and local government structures
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