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5 Things Vancouver: Chris Wood
by Dan
Travel + Vancouver / February 08, 2010
Chris Wood is the author of Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North American. He is a journalist and former Maclean's editor, and has written for The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, The Walrus, The Tyee and more. He won two Gold National Magazine Awards for his work on water, co-authored Blockbusters and Trade Wars (shortlisted for the Donner Prize) and, with Beverley Wood, wrote the Sirius Mystery teen books, including The Golden Boy and DogStar.
What is the single best thing about living in Vancouver?
The demographic, culinary and fashion diversity
Where’s your favourite spot to eat on a budget?
Kent’s Kitchen, old Chinatown off Main
What is your favourite building in Vancouver?
Marine Building on Burrard
Where’s the best place for coffee?
Any of the Italian joints on Commercial
What’s your favourite free thing to do in Vancouver?
Walk... the Stanley Park Seawall or False Creek and the Market, the Drive
Thanks Chris!
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Chris Wood
Raincoast Books ISBN 978-1-55192-814-2
$23.95 Paperback
"The best thing yet written on the many impacts of global warming on the world's water and climate systems. A highly readable interweaving of hard science with the stories of individual people."
— Al Appleton, former commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection, City of New York
