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Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, design, environment, event, frogs, life, urban critters, vancouver on July 27, 2010
Walkabout at Beaver Lake with Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Loretta Woodcock & Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES): A dialogue on biodiversity [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, environment, event, frogs, history, life, urban critters, vancouver on July 4, 2010
Background:
As part of our neighbourhood community building effort, a number of neighbours and I have been documenting the flora and fauna of our sm [...]
Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, community, design, history, urban critters, vancouver on July 3, 2010
As part of our neighbourhood community building effort, a number of neighbours and I have been documenting the flora and fauna of our small urban fore [...]
Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, community, design, environment, event, food, frogs, health, life, urban critters, vancouver on June 25, 2010
During our late summers, we can still observe salmon spawning, right in front of the new waterfront walkway built along the Fraser river in east Vanco [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, food, health, urban critters, vancouver on June 1, 2010
Vancouver’s new Trade and Convention Centre expansion, has a beautiful new green roof.
The roof is covered with indigenous grasses, small shrubs [...]
Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, community, design, environment, event, health, urban critters, vancouver on May 21, 2010
A FREE May 22nd Biodiversity Tour of the Garden City Lands, Richmond, British Columbia
Eco-tour: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:00 am
Meet at the Garden [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, environment, event, food, frogs, green Profile, health, life, urban critters, vancouver on May 7, 2010
Our earlier blog post (Vancouver’s first rooftop urban farm) had introduced our readers to what was to have been our city’s first parkade [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, environment, green Profile, health, life, urban critters on May 5, 2010
Article courtesy of the Georgia Straight and DavidSuzuki.org
David Suzuki: Using smart growth to combat urban sprawl in Canada
By David Suzuki and Fai [...]
Filed Under: city living, design, environment, green Gadget on May 3, 2010
As our city embraces the use of the bicycle as an important mode of transportation, we wonder if we’d ever get one of these clever Japanese bicy [...]
Filed Under: city living, design, environment, event, frogs, health, history, life, urban critters, vancouver on May 2, 2010
Last fall, we introduced you to Vancouver’s secret forest (link here).
Today, a number of friends and neighbours went on another walk through ou [...]
Filed Under: city living, design, green Profile on April 27, 2010
We found this interesting Youtube video of an Architect in Hong Kong who has managed to create 24 different “rooms” or experiences in a ti [...]
Filed Under: design, frogs, life on April 7, 2010
Beauty in numbers… or is that we humans have figured out how Nature’s beauty may be distilled into numeric formulations?
My favourite is t [...]
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