Sustainable design
This UBC Building, when it opened, was the tallest mass timber structure in the world, meeting LEED gold standards.
What is Brock Commons Tallwood House?
This effect causes cities to be warmer than surrounding areas due to concrete and a lack of vegetation.
What is the Urban Heat Island Effect?
This region of the Fertile Crescent is known as the birthplace of writing and early urban societies.
What is Mesopotamia?
Food waste contributes to this percentage of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
What is 11%?
Adopted in 2022 and updated in 2025, this Vancouver planning framework guides high-density, transit-oriented growth along a major east-west corridor.
What is The Broadway Plan?
This Vancouver initiative converted a former rail corridor into a greenway, promoting active transportation.
What is the Arbutus Greenway?
This man is the “Father of Modern Suburbia."
Who is William J. Levitt?
It's a long way from here to Timbuktu, but where is this city?
Where is Mali?
This brand was the first to turn plastic waste into clothing.
What is Patagonia?
This city was home to the world's first underground railway, which was built in 1863 and carried 38,000 passengers on its first day.
What is London?
This province produces more than 50% of Canada's national hydroelectricity.
What is Quebec?
What year was Vancouver’s transit network voted ‘Transit System of the Year’?
When was 2019?
Canada’s boreal forest covers about this fraction of the country’s landmass.
What is 1/3?
These two materials can be recycled indefinitely.
What is Glass and Aluminum?
In 1987, Seattle became the first U.S city to have its police officers patrol the streets using this mode of transportation.
What is the Bicycle?
This Vancouver building features hanging gardens, rooftop terraces, and has been described as "having a sensitivity for nature and the environment."
What is The Law Courts building?
Under Vancouver’s Missing Middle Housing Policy, how many units can be built on lots previously zoned for single-family homes?
What is 6 units?
In ~1000 AD, the Norse built a small settlement at the L'Anse aux Meadows in which modern-day province?
What is Newfoundland?
This Indigenous-led conservation initiative in the Northwest Territories protects over 14,000 km² of boreal forest.
What is Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area?
This airline is the only commercial airline service in North Korea.
What is Air Koryo?
In 2010, Vancouver became the first city in North America to mandate this ultra‑low energy building standard, requiring airtight construction, super‑insulation, and heat‑recovery ventilation.
What is the Passive House Standard (Passivhaus)?
This model of urban structure, developed in 1925, describes cities as a series of concentric rings.
What is The Burgess Model?
This US state has four syllables and borders no other states with exactly four syllables.
What is Indiana?
This international agreement, adopted in 1992, aims to conserve biological diversity, ensure sustainable use of its components, and promote fair sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.
What is the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)?
This news host is one of the great great great grandsons of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Who is Anderson Cooper?