Are Vancouver Olympic Games 2010 green?
The winter Olympic Games have just started in Canada, and already Whistler is all the media talk about. This little ski resort is about 120 miles away from Vancouver and deserves a “green” medal for being an example in ecology. Ken Melamed, the city mayor, declared that “the event must be as neutral as possible in terms of carbon dioxide production”. This statement comes with many ecofriendly actions : the Olympic village will only count 220 apartments, there’s a quota of only 8000 spectators admitted in the trials arrival area, all the housing locations for athletes are built in green materials (The floors are made in bamboo, the veeners for the facades are in cedar. The parking lots of the new complex will be reserved only for staff and athletes. The only way to go to the ski resort is by coach.
The mayor of Whistler has really decided to protect the beautiful mountains of his dear British Colombia, which seems to be in real danger. Indeed, with the global warming, nearly 13 millions of hectares of ponderosa pine forests were destroyed by the dendrochton, a really harmful beetle. So far, the Vancouver Olympics are the greenest in history.
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