Golg poster

The water smart city Edmonton has limited rainfall and water supplies. So Edmonton’s people came up with “Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plan“, a program that treats wastewater for 700,000 people in Edmonton.

The process includes:

Pretreatment
Primary treatment
Activated sludge secondary treatment
A second set of bioreactors

Using a specialized biological reaction process to remove remaining impurities, and medium-pressure UV disinfection.

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http://corp.epcor.com/en-ca/
about-epcor/operations/oper
ations-alberta/Edmonton/gold-
bar/Pages/default.aspx

This program will make the citizen life better.

Advantages

Economic benefits
Environmental benefits
Social benefits
Operational benefits.

Challenges

Petro- Canada could not increase its freshwater withdrawals from the river for use in the new desulfurisation process.

MONTREAL

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal

Overall (bixi)

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/ca
nada/montreal/story/2012/04/02/bixi
-early-season-2012-montreal.html

Bixi rental bicycles are now available in some Montreal neighbourhoods and the city started installing the popular bike stations. There are about 150 stations and for Monday morning, there will be 650 bikes provided. The rest of the fleet will be ready April 15.

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http://ilivetoronto.w
ordpress.com/2011/05/04/bixi-
has-finally-arrived-in-toronto/

Bixi

The most bike-friendly city in Canada Montreal spent millions of dollars on public transit, including doubling its bike paths from 400km to 800km and introducing a public bike program —- Bixi. Bixi is a program that encourage people to ride bike for short trips. All you need to do is pay $78 per year, then you can take bikes from Bixi station on the roads as many times as you want for 45 mins and additional fees is required if u take the bike more than 45 mins.

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http://www.rollacover.com
/docs/newspage.html

Green

The advantage of being a green city is less pollution, which means better and healthier environment for people to live. However, to become a green city takes a very long time, and a lot of money too. Montreal spent millions just for public transit, not included other small green programs. And also, to regulate those programs is difficult. It can be a huge money waste if some immature people damage those public facilities.

Challenges

Routes for bixi that connect to sharrows (infrastructure)
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http://www.indyweek.com/c
itizen/archives/2010/08/
04/trust-the-sharrow-its
-the-answer-to-everythin
g-from-high-speed-rail-t
o-the-national-debt
Contra-flow lanes required

Advantages

In the city, bikes are faster than cars for distances under 5 kilometres.
Bikes are cheaper. (On average, bikes cost $200 per year for maintenance and accessories.)
less polluton
Easier for parking.
Bike-riding Exercise.
May enjoy the view of the city as pedal the way to work.

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http://www.stm.info/

CALGARY

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http://www.calga
ryfashion.ca/201
2/03/07/the-movi
ng-calgary/

Overall

Calgary is the only municipality in Canada that uses at least 75 percent of its electricity from the renewable sources like windmill and it sets a goal to hit 90 percent in 2012 by reduce more non-renewable resources. Also, Calgary intends to decrease the percent of the waste we make from the landfills by the 2020 and also to stabilized the water use levels and the population they have which is 1,079,310.

Targets:

Built Environment System
Economic System
Governance System
Natural Environment System
Social System

Wast Management

85 percent of the waste generated within Calgary is diverted from landfills by 2036.
75 per cent of construction industry waste materials are recovered for reuse and recycling by 2036.
By 2036, 85 per cent of waste materials are converted to other useful products.

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http://www.wastemana
gementrecycling.net/wa
ste-management-process.html

WindMill

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http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Windmill

In Calgary many places get their energy resources form the windmill. Windmill basially is a machine which converts or captures the energy of the wind into rotational energy by a number of blades inside the windmill. Windmill provide us clean and has natural energy, and it causes less pollution than other energy machine. It’s a really useful machine for everybody on the world.

WindMiill in Calgary:

N 51° 02.244 W 113° 56.759

12U E 293466 N 5658114

WindMill

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http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5JDK_Elliston_Park_Windmill_Calgary_Alberta

Giant Windmill Blades in Calgary

Modern engineer spent times on those Wind turbine in Downtown Calgary.

Wind turbine

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Calgary Green Program — ImagineCALGARY

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http://ecentric.ca/our-work.php

The green electricity capital Calgary is the only municipality in Canada. The advantage of being a green city is less pollution which means that people can take public c-trains, which is run by electricity. Also Calgary has a program called imagineCALGARY. The purpose of it is to help Calgarians create a better future and better quality of life for generations. Specifically, it holds events to gather people and celebrate for certain things, such as:

Local food producers
Arts
Cultures

Challenges:

Water uses (not enought water for the grass)
Challenge of sustainability

Prezi – 5 Industries of Tourism Sector

Posted on April 10, 2012 by swtourism

http://prezi.com/jqecosppm7ui/the-five-industries-tourism-sector/

My Dream Vacation

Posted on April 10, 2012 by swtourism

Here is my dream vacation (Brochure) for 7 days in Seoul with a friend and $10,000

—> .My Dream Vacation

Seoul

Prezi – My Beautiful Target

Posted on March 9, 2012 by swtourism

My Favorite Song Beauitful Target

Five Industries of the Tourism Sector

Posted on February 28, 2012 by swtourism

Questions:

1) What are the 5 industries of the tourism sector? /2.5

The 5 industries of the tourism sector are:

Accommodations
Food and Beverage Services
Recreation and Entertainment
Transportation
Travel Services

2) Why was there a change from having 8 ‘sectors’ to 5 ‘industries’? Be sure to list the 8 sectors and explain the reason for changing to 5 industries. /3

The 8 sectors are:

Transportation
Food and beverage
Attractions
Meetings, events and conferences
Adventure tourism, recreation and ecotourism
Accommodation
Travel trade
Tourism services

The Statistics Canada and the Canadian Tourism Commission with the United States and Mexico and come up with an agreement on a North American Industry Classification System, to form the 5 Tourism industries instead of the 8 sectors.

Ex: Recreation and Entertainment is a new industry group that made from the categories of Adventure Tourism and Recreation, and Attractions.

3) Complete the chart below by matching the different sectors with the industries. The first one has been done for you. Note that while there are 8 sectors, there are only 5 industries. There will be more than one sector of some of the industries. In addition, not all the sectors match to an industry. /2.5

8 Tourism Sectors		5 Tourism industries
Transportation		TRANSPORTATION
food and beverage		FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE
attractions
meetings, events and conferences
adventure tourism, recreation and ecotourism		RECREATION, AND ENTERTAINMENT
Accommodation		ACCOMODATIONS
travel trade		TRAVEL SERVICES
tourism services

4) Choose one particular industry and describe in detail. Include…

A detailed description of the industry. /3

FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICES provides the service of fast service and fine dining, it promote customers the service of pubs, bars, nightclubs and so on. Food and Beverage Service also involved in bookstores, department stores and casinos. Many restaurants have diversified and coming out their own products, while many specialty cafés now market their products to airlines and offices.

Examples of Canadian organizations/businesses that are part of this industry. /2

Program name:Certified Chef Cuisine (CCC)

School:Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

At least 3 jobs available in this industry with descriptions of the work and training required. /6

Food Service Counter Attendant:

A Food Service Counter Attendant takes the customers’ orders. They prepare certain easy foods like milkshakes and ice cream dishes. The have to wraps foods directly on the plates for service to patrons, and packages takeout foods. The average salary for this job is $11.00/hr.

Training: Kitchen Orientation Food Service (Metro Continuing Education)

Cook:

The Cooks prepare foods for the customers and they cook a wide variety of foods. Their job includes complete meals or individual dishes and foods and also special meals as instructed by the chef. The average wage is $12 per an hour.

Training: Cook Apprentice (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology)

Chef:

Chef is the manager of the kitchen in a commercial food establishment. They are responsible for ordering, receiving and properly storing the food, inventory control, waste calculations, food safety and the overall cleanliness of the kitchen and so on. They are responsible for the work of estimates food requirements and calculate food and labour costs etc. The salary for this job is $24/hour.

Training: Certified Chef Cuisine (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology School)