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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 [...]

Save the Environment… but it's humans who really need saving!

Save the Environment… but it’s humans who really need saving!

Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, environment, life, urban critters, vancouver on September 10, 2010

by Celia Brauer, September 9, 2010 It was early in the 1970s when the word “environment” became part of the popular consciousness. This is curious [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

June 5th is WED!

June 5th is WED!

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 [...]

Never seen before… treefrogs that shake their booties!

Never seen before… treefrogs that shake their booties!

Filed Under: Uncategorized, biodiversity, environment, event, frogs, life on June 2, 2010

Who likes big butts, and just can’t stand it? Your neighbourhood red eyed treefrog, that’s who! Well… actually, they shake their behinds [...]

Newly discovered frog with inflating nose

Newly discovered frog with inflating nose

Filed Under: biodiversity, environment, event, frogs, life on May 19, 2010

A frog that inflates its nose! A new species of treefrog that sports a long “pinnochio-like” protuberance on its nose has been found in In [...]

Eagle cams & the singing of frogs

Eagle cams & the singing of frogs

Filed Under: environment, frogs, life, urban critters, vancouver on May 14, 2010

Almost 300 viewers of an eaglet this morning! A live camera viewing… Wildlife cams have been set up to view birds, fish, plants all over the wor [...]

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