Wednesday, January 22. 2020

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the Key Issue "Why Are Urban Areas Expanding"? We'll try to understand urban areas, census metropolitan areas, annexation, sub-urbanization, sprawl, smart growth and transportation into and out of city cores.





You have some questions to answer for me:

1. What is required before an area can be annexed by a city?
2. In the past, why did peripheral areas desire annexation? What has changed?
3. What is meant by the statement: the “periphery of U.S. cities looks like Swiss cheese”?
4. What has prevented the peripheries of European cities from looking like Swiss cheese?
5. What is smart growth?
6. List four ways demand for congested roads is being reduced
7. List four ways in which public transportation is better than an automobile.

We'll also look at the Key Issue, "Why Do Cities Face Challenges"? Our focus will be on the division between the downtown CBD and the suburban residential neighbourhoods...using Vancouver as an example. We'll look at "filtering" (and SROs in Vancouver), public housing, gentrification and the Downtown Eastside (DTES). For help with your questions look at the following sites and videos:
The people of the Downtown Eastside
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside changing with development
City of Vancouver Downtown Eastside Plan
Welcome to Hell: A walk through the Downtown Eastside
Vice: Downtown Eastside

From the 2007 BC Energy Plan...yep 13 years ago

A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll be back in the learning commons to continue your work on your final exam, the BC renewable energy activity. Remember you need to examine the five most common renewable energy sources (hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, biomass, marine hydrokinetic, and solar) and provide sound reasoning as to why you believe your top choice should be chosen as an energy project here in BC. The provincial government’s CleanBC plan calls for a massive program of electrification of homes, industry and transportation with aggressive greenhouse-gas reduction targets set for 2030. By 2040, every car sold in B.C. is to be zero emission, while every home is to be net-zero energy ready by 2032. More links:

EnergyBC
Canada’s Renewable Power Landscape 2016 – Energy Market Analysis
Could BC become a 100% Renewable Energy Region?
Clean Energy BC Clean Energy BC Clean Energy Sectors
Natural Resources Canada Renewable Energy Facts

And here is the viral photo from Qaanaaq, Greenland, that Danish climate researcher Steffen Olsen took; which is a visceral depiction of the top layer of sea ice...notice it isn't there...AKA melted; you know showing the reality of climate change...like now?!

C/D Blocks Environmental & Social Sciences - Field Trip! We're off to look at snow ecology, types of snow, depth and temperature along with snow water equivalent. All this will take place either at Anderson Hill or Ramparts Hill on the Strathcona Parkway. We have snowshoes for you but remember you need the proper clothing. Please make sure you have your permission forms into Young and or Benton by noon.