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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 [...]

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 [...]

[GP] Agricultural Biodiversity & Sustainability for the Future

[GP] Agricultural Biodiversity & Sustainability for the Future

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 [...]

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 [...]

Scientists say oceans will be empty of fish in 40 years

Scientists say oceans will be empty of fish in 40 years

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 [...]

banning frogs for human consumption

banning frogs for human consumption

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, [...]

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 [...]

Film + talk: Farmed Salmon Exposed

Film + talk: Farmed Salmon Exposed

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 [...]

Bugs for breakfast

Bugs for breakfast

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& [...]

Vancouver’s alien invasion… part II, yummy pests

Vancouver’s alien invasion… part II, yummy pests

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 [...]

Sharing Fall's abundance

Sharing Fall’s abundance

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 [...]

wild salmon don't do drugs

wild salmon don’t do drugs

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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