the Urban Treefrog blog
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 [...]
Filed Under: biodiversity, city living, community, design, history, urban critters, vancouver on July 3, 2010
As part of our neighbourhood community building effort, a number of neighbours and I have been documenting the flora and fauna of our small urban fore [...]
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 [...]
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: 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, 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: 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: 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: environment, green Profile, vancouver on October 14, 2009
Is it the rain and or the water over in this city, Vancouver, that has spawned some amazing heroes? In particular, I’m thinking of the many Vanc [...]
Filed Under: city living, history, life, urban critters, vancouver on October 12, 2009
What a wonderful way to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Yesterday, a number of families in my neighbourhood organized a nature walk through our backy [...]
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