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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 [...]
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: biodiversity, environment, event, food, health on June 3, 2010
Today’s Guest Post [GP] is by Jack Lundee.
Agricultural Biodiversity and Sustainability for the Future
June 2nd, 2010
“In other environmen [...]
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: environment, food, health on May 18, 2010
from Yahoo news:
Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years: UN
by Sebastian Smith Sebastian Smith – Mon May 17, 11:07 pm ET
NEW YORK (A [...]
Filed Under: environment, event, food, frogs, health, life on May 9, 2010
It has been documented that frogs imported into North America (and elsewhere) for the food and pet industries are known carriers of the deadly fungus, [...]
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: food, health on November 12, 2009
Wild Salmon Circle Presents:
New Film on Global Salmon Farming Industry + Panel Talk + Citizen Action
Date: Thursday, November 12
Time: 7-9 PM
Locatio [...]
Filed Under: city living, food, health, urban critters on October 13, 2009
I was feeding my family of frogs the other night, and wondering if I’d relish a meal of crickets as much as my frogs do. I thought, “that& [...]
Filed Under: city living, food, frogs, life, urban critters, vancouver on October 11, 2009
People given the opportunity, would often explore ways to simplify their lives. One of the important efforts that we all try to realize, is the notion [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, environment, food, frogs, health, life on October 7, 2009
As Canada readies itself for this weekend’s thanksgiving, we reflect upon all the abundance and bountiful harvests many of us backyard urban far [...]
Filed Under: environment, event, food, health, vancouver on October 4, 2009
Almost 1,000 concerned citizens showed up at a rally in support of wild B.C. Salmon today (Saturday, Oct 3, 2009).
Please join the Wild Salmon Circle, [...]
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