Posts Tagged sustainability

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 [...]

[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 [...]

Urban beekeeping & green roofs on the rise

Urban beekeeping & green roofs on the rise

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 [...]

Sad ending to (planned) Chinatown roof farm…

Sad ending to (planned) Chinatown roof farm…

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 [...]

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 [...]

Gibsons, awarded the World's Most Liveable City

Gibsons, awarded the World’s Most Liveable City

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 [...]

don't talk green… do it

don’t talk green… do it

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 [...]

Sharing Fall's abundance

Sharing Fall’s abundance

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 [...]

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 [...]