I pulled this little notice from the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City newsletter. This annual month long event is a great way to meet your neighbours and help to keep our “green city” clean. There are several other greening events listed below as well. Happy Earth Day! Keep Vancouver Spectacular […] Read More
If you haven’t seen the heron colony in Stanley Park, it is well worth a visit. There are other city birds worth tweeting about too. Some of them are listed in this announcement of the recently launched City Bird Campaign in the Greenest City newsletter. Stanley Park is home to […] Read More
Riffing on the Got Milk campaign, the David Suzuki Foundation has launched the Got Milkweed campaign in an effort to help save the dwindling monarch butterfly population. Female monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed plants which also provide food for the caterpillars. Milkweed has nearly been wiped out, so the […] Read More
Woody Tasch, Founder of Slow Money, on the perilous state of our soil. This is from his address at Food + Enterprise in Brooklyn, New York this past February. We are strong in terms of tillage, but weak in terms of fertility. We are strong measured in chemical and mechanical […] Read More
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. – Mother Teresa of Calcutta Our modern civilization is so physically oriented that when we hear the word hunger, we immediately think […] Read More
When I worked at City Farmer, we and the community gardeners along the railway tracks, co-existed somewhat peacefully with Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway. Back then the corporation worked with the community, steaming the weeds along the tracks in order not to contaminate the gardens. One day, when they began chopping […] Read More
When I worked for City Farmer we ran a contest for the best food garden in Vancouver. We visited a lot of gardens and in the back corners of many yards we found “show pigeons.” Back then, that was a fancy name for chickens. In those days, it was illegal […] Read More
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. – Meher Baba Somehow, in our modern civilization, we have acquired the idea that the mind is working best when it runs at top speed. Yet a racing mind lacks […] Read More
Having survived several Winnipeg winters, I know cold. But while I have seen tires freeze into cubes, I have never seen a wave freeze. Photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh captured this nearly frozen wave in Nantucket during this past record-setting winter. Thanks to Green Renaissance for pointing me to this image frozen […] Read More
I took a first aid course through work this week. I hadn’t had a refresher since my days as a lifeguard. A few things have changed. For example, when doing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), we used to do five chest compressions to one breath. Now it’s 30 compressions to two breaths. […] Read More