Posts Tagged food

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 [...]

Vancouver: Greenest City Neighbourhood Small Grants

Vancouver: Greenest City Neighbourhood Small Grants

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 [...]

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 [...]

[GP] Agricultural Biodiversity & Sustainability for the Future

[GP] Agricultural Biodiversity & Sustainability for the Future

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 [...]

Scientists say oceans will be empty of fish in 40 years

Scientists say oceans will be empty of fish in 40 years

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 [...]

banning frogs for human consumption

banning frogs for human consumption

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, [...]

Vancouver's first rooftop urban farm

Vancouver’s first rooftop urban farm

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 [...]

Bugs for breakfast

Bugs for breakfast

Filed Under: city living, food, health, urban critters on October 13, 2009

I was feeding my family of frogs the other night, and wondering if I’d relish a meal of crickets as much as my frogs do. I thought, “that& [...]