I’m sure the Vancouver Park Board had good reasons for removing the drought tolerant (and I believe native) grasses they had in these planters previously. They looked especially beautiful at night with the backlighting. But seriously, where do palm trees fit in the greenest city action plan?
I saw this sign at a bus stop near my place recently. At first I was a little annoyed. Why shouldn’t people lock their bikes to the bus stop sign – especially when there are so few bike racks along 4th Avenue? But then I spoke to a bus driver […] Read More
I finished my first term at UBC on Friday. Here’s how my school buddy Linda and I marked the occasion. Yesterday, we cleaned our messy homes. Today, we really celebrated by, what else, shopping. We started off at Le Marché St. George, a unique café on the east side, near […] Read More
I heard two beautiful stories in the last couple weeks. The first was about a woman who volunteers at the Hob, the boutique thrift shop operated by the Vancouver Hospice Society. Several days a week, for several hours a day, she works in the back of the store, sorting through […] Read More
For an assignment this week, I am presenting my research topic at an academic poster session. My classmates are presenting along with some PhD students. Faculty and staff from our educational studies department have been invited and are bound to ask us hard-hitting questions that we have no idea how […] Read More
Most people in the lower mainland have heard about UBC Farm, but many probably haven’t yet heard about the Orchard Garden. The garden is in the middle of the UBC campus, on a one acre plot of land behind the MacMillan Building, a project of Land and Food Systems. According […] Read More
Recently, I attended an event put on by the Westside Food Collaborative held at Heart Attack & Vine, a café in Kitsilano. The event announcement was intriguing; it said we would be hearing the owner’s story. I can never resist a story. Seven of us gathered around a couple of […] Read More
I will be presenting my research topic during a poster session at an upcoming class. Even though I barely know what that topic is yet, I’ve been attempting to put a poster together over the past few days. At our last class, I learned that a poster that I might […] Read More
In September, I walked along Still Creek with a group of students during my SFU course. In Renfrew Ravine Park, the creek flows above ground through a beautiful urban forest. But we also traced its route below ground, beneath the asphalt. The City of Vancouver has been very creative in […] Read More
In my search for a research topic, I stumbled upon eco-linguistics, an emerging field that studies language within both a social and ecological context. Sounds like it could be a good fit for me. My interest in the language of sustainability springs from my own background and lifelong fascination with […] Read More