Travels in Alaska and Pacific Northwest

Nineteenth century totem poles in Ketchikan Museum
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Traveled to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Here are some photos of the trip.

Even from 6 miles up, the wildfires in Washington State are visible.
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

As Chinese capital floods into Vancouver, central city properties reach upwards
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Rainbow in Inner Passage
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Tlingit clan house: Ketchikan
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Important  form of transport in Alaska
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Whale fluke near Juneau
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Gold era ghost town, near Skagway
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Sitka
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Hubbard Glacier
Photo: ©John Rennie Short

Can we soften the impacts of hosting the Olympic Games?

There are enormous environmental impacts to hosting the Olymoic Games. I discuss this in a Conversation article: Green and Gold can we soften the impacts?

Permanent Olympic site: interview with International Business Times

Interviewed by International Business Times about permanent site for the Summer Olympics. You can access the article here.

Stadium for 2004 Athens Games (Photo: John Rennie Short)

Stadium for 1896 Athens Games  (photo: John Rennie Short)

Permanent site for Olympic Games: radio interview

Interviewed on Tim Denis radio show about permanent site for Olympics. Access the broadcast here

A permanent site for the Summer Olympics

The Summer Olympics should be held in the same place. I have been making this point for some time. I was asked recently by the Washington Post to write an article on this topic. You can access it here. An Atlantic piece published in 2013 written by Nate Berg, makes the same point.

My writings on the Summer Olympics are in various books as well as in the following articles:

Megaevents and urban spectaculars

Who won the 2016 Olympic Games hosting competition:  Rio or Chicago

Cities and the Olympics Games

Cities are rare good news story in climate change

My article on cities as the rare good news story in the issue of climate change was just published. You can access it here.

Chicago City Hall

Living in the Age of Distraction

We live in an Age of Distraction. People are multitasking and loosing focus on the here and now. I address this issue in a recent piece in The Conversation. You can access it here.