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 staff to join us as they know a lot more about the cows, chickens, bees, the market garden, the public and academic programs, the research… […] 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 or a PhD will know what I’m talking about and will empathize with me. It’s a monster – with many moving parts. And the deadline […] 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. Our group will be walking through Renfrew Ravine as part of the Simon Fraser University Applications course this year. Turns out there will be a […] 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) are being used for shade in large parking lots, as roofs and external walls (seen above on the ECN building) and to construct entire buildings, […] 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 the foreground, a granola bar and a barely visible fruit cup. The mother is asking him to choose which one he wants in his lunch. […] 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 annual fundraiser for a great program, the Sustainable Living Leadership Program. Every year, ten young leaders are chosen for the trip of a lifetime down […] 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 the triathletes, all cozy in their wet suits. But the crowds don’t roll in til the weather warms. The second Sunday in September, I mourn […] Read More
In the mid-1990s, I became interested in what was then a relatively new phenomenon, genetically modified foods, an industry ripe with politics. Although it was never directly part of my work at City Farmer, I took the subject on as a side interest. I began to collect newspaper clippings, friends […] Read More
I attended a grad student orientation at UBC last week. The uplifting video and the speakers succeeded in making me feel like one of the chosen. But the moment I felt most proud to be attending school here and living in this beautiful province and amazing country, was when Jenny […] Read More
I attended a grad student orientation event at the University of British Columbia (UBC) this past week. About 700 or so twenty-somethings attended with me, and they fed all of us. You can only imagine the line-ups; one for beef burgers, the other for chicken or vegan burgers. Not sure […] Read More