Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Negotiators at COP15 in Montreal agreed to protect biodiversity in our oceans. Where do governments begin?
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Seven ways to tackle inflation without raising interest rates
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Raising interest rates is a cruel cudgel that hurts the most vulnerable. There are other responses that governments and central banks should consider.
Six ways to end Canada’s affordable housing crisis
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Let’s end exclusive zoning, empower non-profit developers, and use the right balance of carrots and sticks to make housing affordable
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Six ways to produce rapid affordable housing
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Solving Canada’s housing crisis will take time. So, what can governments do to lessen the burden for those suffering now? Click here to read the full story
Seven ways to end the climate crisis
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: We need all hands on deck to solve humanity’s greatest crisis. Click here to read the full story.
Seven ways to reduce economic inequality
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: A high level of inequality weakens public trust, causes resentment and threatens democracy. How can we reduce it? Click here for the full story.
Seven ways to include nature in our economic choices
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: The COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal has ambitious goals. Here’s how we could embed these goals into our economies. Click here for the full story
Can We Solve the Farm Housing Problem?
First Published in Planning West (PIBC), Summer 2022
By Guy Dauncey PIBC (Hon); Rob Buchan Ph.D., FCIP, RPP; Jack Anderson MCIP, RPP; Heather Pritchard; Kent Mullinix Ph.D. August 2022
There’s a global food catastrophe coming our way, and we’re not ready for it. It’s being caused by a disastrous combination of climate-induced deluges, droughts and heat waves; the war in Ukraine; supply-chain disruptions; and food export bans by leaders who are worried about popular insurrections if they can’t feed their people. Meanwhile, farmers’ profit margins are being squeezed by the rising cost of fuel, fertilizer and animal feed.
Continue reading Can We Solve the Farm Housing Problem?Looking Back to the Beginning of the Universe
By Guy Dauncey, August 2022
While we have been quietly growing our tomatoes, kayaking on the ocean, and working at our jobs, a team of the planet’s most brilliant people have been sending a telescope one and a half million kilometres into space.
Continue reading Looking Back to the Beginning of the UniverseHawai’i Kōnea: A Story from the Future
Honolulu, January 16th, 2193
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It’s sunset, at the end of another beautiful day in Honolulu. The high tide is arguing with the seawall, which was raised another metre last year to protect the Capitol Building – but what’s new? They’re still not on good terms with each other.
My name is Ben Danner-Pualani, and tomorrow I will give the biggest speech of my life in front of all my peers. They say it will be broadcast to every schoolchild. I’m 87, and for my sins I have been granted the pomposity of being a Senator, so I’ve seen a bit, but this has the butterflies crawling all over my poor weak heart, under my great grandfather’s ancient robe.
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