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7 Billion, Pesticides, Food and Frogs

7 Billion, Pesticides, Food and Frogs

Filed Under: city living, community, environment, event, food, health, history, life, vancouver on November 25, 2011

. Can Earth be sustained with 7 billion humans on pesticide-laden food? The month of October 2011 saw, “seven billion” as a new answer for [...]

Event: Guided tour of Endangered urban forest Nov. 5, 2010

Event: Guided tour of Endangered urban forest Nov. 5, 2010

Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, community, design, environment, event, frogs, health, life, urban critters, vancouver on November 3, 2010

South Fraser Witness Trail Group Hike on the South Fraser Witness Trail! Friday, November 5 · 3:00pm - 5:00pm Meet at the bus stop at 168 St. & 1 [...]

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 [...]

10 ways to protect biodiversity

10 ways to protect biodiversity

Filed Under: biodiversity, community, environment, event, frogs, health, life, urban critters, vancouver on June 29, 2010

Originally published in Georgia Straight, January 14, 2010 butterfly photo courtesy of PDPhoto . Ten ways you can help protect biodiversity in 2010 By [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vancouver's first rooftop urban farm

Vancouver’s first rooftop urban farm

Filed Under: city living, community, design, vancouver on March 18, 2010

Sorry for the long delay… It’s been months since my last post. There is so much interesting and relevant material out there in the blogosp [...]

New York frog vs invasive weed

New York frog vs invasive weed

Filed Under: city living, community, design, environment, event, frogs, health, life, urban critters on January 29, 2010

I’ve been running ragged over the past while, and hadn’t updated my thoughts on this blog… This morning, an interesting article on a [...]

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