In 1980, a group of volunteers got together to do a clean up along the Thompson River. That was the start of BC Rivers Day […] Read More
Month: September 2012
I first met Matt and Molly Thurston in 2007 at a talk I gave on food security for the Central Okanagan Community Gardens Society (COCGS) […] Read More
Many of the courses and tours I’ve designed and delivered have included UBC Farm. In the past, I have enlisted one of the UBC Farm […] Read More
I’m working on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant or SSHRC, pronounced shirk for short. Those of you who have done a Masters […] Read More
Fall festival season is upon us. I wrote about the Moon Festival coming up on Saturday, September 29th hosted by the Still Moon Arts Society. […] Read More
Over the last few weeks I’ve been sharing photos of buildings and other structures made from solar panels on my Facebook page. Photovoltaic Cells (PV) […] Read More
Walmart has a commercial running right now that features a young boy at a kitchen table with a giant box of frosted flakey cereal in […] Read More
The Rivershed Society of BC is hosting a 3 hour dinner cruise on the Fraser aboard the historic MV Native Paddlewheeler. The dinner is the […] Read More
Every May long weekend I celebrate the opening of the Kitsilano pool. Then it rains til July. I still swim during the rainy months, alongside […] Read More