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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: 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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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: environment, greenwash :-(, life on May 8, 2010
It’s interesting how some cyberclips manage to evolve into a life of its own. The viral message. The more successful viral sites and videos enjo [...]
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, event, history, urban critters, vancouver on May 6, 2010
It’s making headlines around our city and nation. A real, breathing and wild Grey whale swam into Vancouver yesterday visiting our shorelines. T [...]
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, green Gadget on May 3, 2010
As our city embraces the use of the bicycle as an important mode of transportation, we wonder if we’d ever get one of these clever Japanese bicy [...]
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 [...]
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