Posts Tagged life

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whale visits downtown Vancouver

Whale visits downtown Vancouver

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 [...]

Smart Growth and Foodbelts

Smart Growth and Foodbelts

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 [...]

Who said Mathematics is ugly?

Who said Mathematics is ugly?

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 [...]

Vancouver's Frog guy

Vancouver’s Frog guy

Filed Under: city living, environment, green Profile, urban critters, vancouver on October 2, 2009

The Express’s Peter Kim interviews Vancouver Frog guy, David Wong, on his thoughts and reasons why he has been raising Vancouver’s native [...]

What happened to all of Vancouver's kids?

What happened to all of Vancouver’s kids?

Filed Under: city living, community, life, vancouver on September 30, 2009

We often hear of the 3 legged stool - a sustainability model that is an analogy for a perfectly balanced system.  With each of the three legs on the [...]