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Sunday 13 November 2011

Vancouver, B.C., works to be greenest of all

THE GIANT pink delivery tricycle pulls up before glimmering glass office towers.

It's a normal Wednesday in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Morning rush hour is just picking up steam. Mercedes and SUVs whiz by on the street. Pedestrians in sharp suits and expensive haircuts race along the sidewalk to work. A few look up from their smartphones to see what someday may be the new normal: Cyclist Robyn Ashwell opening her trike's oversized cargo container to retrieve a cardboard flat of fresh fruit — a special drop-off for one of the tower's businesses.

"You should have seen it yesterday," says the recent Simon Fraser University graduate. Ashwell shuts the lid on the trike's half-full delivery box. "It was completely packed with food."     Full Read

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