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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, green Profile on April 27, 2010
We found this interesting Youtube video of an Architect in Hong Kong who has managed to create 24 different “rooms” or experiences in a ti [...]
Filed Under: design, frogs, life on April 7, 2010
Beauty in numbers… or is that we humans have figured out how Nature’s beauty may be distilled into numeric formulations? My favourite is t [...]
Filed Under: city living, environment, plastics on November 16, 2009
The phrase, “Spaceman economy vs Cowboy economy” was used in one of my life science courses… many years ago. In it’s simplest inte [...]
Filed Under: design, environment, green Profile on October 17, 2009
One of my favourite towns in B.C., and the home of an old TV program, “the Beachcombers” was given the primo liveable city award this week [...]
Filed Under: city living, design, energy, environment, green Gadget, health on July 28, 2009
Canada’s westcoast is experiencing a major heatwave… one of only a few that has occurred over the past 100 years of recorded history. Temp [...]
Filed Under: energy, environment on June 9, 2009
A few years back, a group of westcoast Canadian design professionals were invited to China to give a presentation on Canadian sustainability ideas and [...]
Filed Under: cultural, design, event, life, vancouver on May 22, 2009
This is a nice touch to a design masterpiece that Arthur Erikson had initiated over 33 years ago. Mr Erikson passed away yesterday at the age of 84 ye [...]
Filed Under: design, vancouver on May 21, 2009
. Mr Erikson was one of Vancouver’s greatest sons. I had met Arthur on a number of occasions, and recall fondly, the time we sat near each other [...]
Filed Under: C2C, design, environment on May 14, 2009
One of the earlier ideas presented to people in the design industries has been the concept of “Cradle to Cradle” or “C2C“. The [...]
Filed Under: city living, design, environment, health, vancouver on May 13, 2009
Make it simple. Making it simple and easy, is perhaps, the most important impetus to make change happen. It appears that there is much out there in th [...]
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