Vancouver will no longer be known as the affordable shooting location for TV shows from Airwolf to The X-Files. Judging by blogs, Twitter and social media trends, people are now watching the city for its environmental leadership.

Friday marks the start of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games hosted in Vancouver, marketed as the “greenest” ever Olympics by Ann Duffy, corporate sustainability officer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC).

Of course, she faced a huge challenge in trying to minimize the footprint and waste generated by …

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In the not-so-distant past, cities competing to host the Olympics focused on size, infrastructure and the ability to build huge sporting arenas. Sustainability really wasn’t part of the equation.

But as illustrated with the current bidding war for the 2016 Summer Olympics, times have changed.

The four leading cities – Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro – are all trying to outsell each other as being capable of providing the greenest Olympics yet.

Chicago is promising a low-carbon “Blue-Green” event focusing on low-carbon vehicles, renewable energy, reusable storm water, …

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