the Urban Treefrog blog
Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, environment, event, urban critters, vancouver on October 18, 2010
This year marks the 13th anniversary of our successful effort stopping the city of Vancouver’s plan to build market condos in one of our city&# [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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: 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, 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 [...]
Filed Under: city living, environment, event, vancouver on October 25, 2009
It rained yesterday. Forecast says it’s going to rain some more tomorrow. But today, Vancouver’s weather was sunny and warm. Nature part [...]
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