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“Green cities enable green opportunities – they’re about green habits, green commutes, green choices. In that light, MEC’s new head office represents more than just its built form or exceptional energy performance. It’s about how the space enables and supports our terrific employees to ‘live’ the MEC brand – to be active themselves and tread more lightly on the planet. It’s been super gratifying to see our people embrace the opportunities here and bring our building to life.” - Sandy Treagus, CFO of MEC

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“Hua Foundation is contributing to Vancouver's efforts to become the Greenest City through the Choi Project; the project aims to put healthy, local, real food back on the Chinese dinner table. We work with growers, independent green grocers, and traditional style restaurants to highlight, increase the usage of, and create more access to local & sustainable food options that are also culturally relevant. In addition to our business partners, we engage community members through cooking and growing workshops to increase food literacy and pass on basic skills around food.

The surprise has been how deeply entrenched historic societal pressures and outdated policies have shaped and impacted the local food system. Issues around discrimination, intercultural relations, and community development all continue to heavily influence participation, intercultural understanding, and crossculture collaboration efforts. For the Choi Project specifically, there is a growing emphasis on dismantling these systemic barriers by building trust and understanding which in turn can create cross culture opportunities to increase our city's food sovereignty and reach the Greenest City goals.” - Kevin Huang, HUA Foundation

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“My contributions have come largely as a volunteer board member focusing on active and healthy transportation for the Vancouver Public Space Network, thinking, writing and speaking about the role of public spaces in movement and accessing everyday destinations and services, near and far.

What's surprised me is how deeply I've also fallen in love with that act of creating places that reflect the stories of what we have in common as Vancouverites, as well as our hopes for what we want to be able to tell about building a sustainable city. How present we are able to be while we're moving through the city, happens to be just as much at the heart of that story, as just about anything else.” - Karen Fung

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