Posts Tagged sustainability
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: 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 [...]
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: 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: 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: design, environment, event, greenwash :-(, vancouver on October 16, 2009
I find it amusing to read or hear news about how some person or organization has gone “progressive” by potting up a tomato plant or finds [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, environment, food, frogs, health, life on October 7, 2009
As Canada readies itself for this weekend’s thanksgiving, we reflect upon all the abundance and bountiful harvests many of us backyard urban far [...]
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 [...]