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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
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Ten ways you can help protect biodiversity in 2010
By [...]
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, frogs, health, history, life on June 5, 2010
Today is World Environmental Day.
It is not just a reminder of thinking green, but the importance of abundance – an abundance of different things, d [...]
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: 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: 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: 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, 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, 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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