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Stanley Park Beaver Lake Walkabout and Dialogue on Biodiversity

Stanley Park Beaver Lake Walkabout and Dialogue on Biodiversity

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 [...]

Vancouver: Greenest City Neighbourhood Small Grants

Vancouver: Greenest City Neighbourhood Small Grants

Filed Under: city living, food, vancouver on July 23, 2010

From the city who recently brought in urban chickens into a backyard near you, the Vancouver Foundation has partnered with the City of Vancouver to fu [...]

family of urban raccoons killed

family of urban raccoons killed

Filed Under: city living, environment, life, urban critters on July 20, 2010

Yesterday, we watched the evening news on a story that a mother raccoon and her cubs were bludgeoned to death by a hockey stick wielding man. Apparent [...]

Animals that once graced Vancouver, part 2

Animals that once graced Vancouver, part 2

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 [...]

Animals that once graced Vancouver, part 1

Animals that once graced Vancouver, part 1

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 [...]

Metro Vancouver's backyard / lost fish streams

Metro Vancouver’s backyard / lost fish streams

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 [...]

Urban beekeeping & green roofs on the rise

Urban beekeeping & green roofs on the rise

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 [...]

Free biodiversity tour in Richmond BC - May 22, 2010

Free biodiversity tour in Richmond BC - May 22, 2010

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 [...]

Sad ending to (planned) Chinatown roof farm…

Sad ending to (planned) Chinatown roof farm…

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 [...]

Whale visits downtown Vancouver

Whale visits downtown Vancouver

Filed Under: city living, event, history, urban critters, vancouver on May 6, 2010

It’s making headlines around our city and nation. A real, breathing and wild Grey whale swam into Vancouver yesterday visiting our shorelines. T [...]

Smart Growth and Foodbelts

Smart Growth and Foodbelts

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 [...]

a cool bicycle parkade

a cool bicycle parkade

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 [...]

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