environment, going green The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are in full swing with already some extremely emotional medal ceremonies and I can’t get enough of the continuous coverage. Between Men’s Super Pipe, Luge and Alpine Skiing, it is hard to fathom how these athletes have so much talent and body control to basically own a mountain at over 90 MPH or while doing flips through the air. Being in British Columbia, an extremely friendly place to the environment, I wanted to know how they if at all they worked to setup a green Olympic games. After a quick online inquiry, I came to a NESN.com article called Vancouver Going Green for 2010 Games. In short, Vancouver’s Olympic committee paired with the UN Environment Programme to create an Olympic infrastructure built around preserving the environment. According to the article, efforts to lower the total carbon footprint took place along with using rain water to fill low pressure toilets and the latest and greatest in environmentally friendly building techniques helped make this Winter Olympics very clean.

I expect the Olympics from here on out are only going to get more green. Four years from now, technology is going to be so much farther along then what we see today. Imagine what was out there in 2004. People were really starting to move along this going green mindset. Now in 2010 every large event, world power and many people want to be kinder to Mother Earth. Vancouver was a great springboard to focus on green Olympic Games because the city and surrounding landscape itself is such a work of beauty.

I’ve been up there a few times before during the summer and winter. Each time Vancouver’s majestically clear bodies of water, pollution free city skyline that always keeps the nearby mountains in view, the lack of grime around the busy intersections and overall feeling of exquisiteness every single time I see it on TV or get a chance to visit, blow me away. When people say this is one of the most livable cities in the world, they are not lying. Any place where the tap water tastes better then the purified water sold in stores is OK with me. Plenty of visitors are going to experience just how green a city can be after returning from the Olympics. That environmental push backed behind websites like American National Solar at http://www.americannationalsolar.com/ is going to be catalysts in cleaning this planet up.