For their final projects in the spring 2010 term, UBC journalism students reported stories related to local land and food issues. This map shows where their stories are situated in the greater Vancouver area. inception buy the full movie beverly hills chihuahua 2 indir
in East Vancouver is part of a larger project to provide locally grown food in . However, it is finding it hard to grow produce at a cost that is affordable to the people in the area. The farm is only able to offer only six jobs to Downtown Eastside residents, and none of its [...]
Many of the popular resources available on cosmetic products and toxic ingredients come from the United States. They include some useful databases and backgrounders, but their conclusions seem at times periphery to us Canadians. Up here, we regulate our cosmetics differently! You may be happy to then know that , a Montreal-based campaign for safe [...]
By Sarah Buell and Ryan Elias This summer, Ilana Labow and Gray Oron plan to feed 150 people from six backyards in East Vancouver. Labow is the director and Oron the head farmer for , an urban agriculture project that turns yard space into farms and divides the spoils between hosts, gardeners and shareholders. “We [...]
Jenny Hughes has a problem with reusable shopping bags. Hughes owns , a company that makes high quality, reusable bags in Vancouver. Her organic cotton totes hit the market at the right time: In 2004, plastic shopping bags had just become a environmental issue. She said that Me & You could barely keep up with [...]
The high winds of the Easter weekend brought trees crashing down in Vancouver’s parks and across roadways. In addition to appreciating the wrath of Mother Nature, you may have become more aware of our city’s trees. This week Rod MacNeill takes a look a Vancouver’s urban forest. Listen to his report below.
Tourism Vancouver is expecting more visitors this year, one reason being the recent international exposure from the Olympic games. Though this is good news for the local economy, this influx in tourism comes with an unexpected price for the city’s natural beauty. Jes Abeita, Rebecca Cheung and Ursula Diaz produced this report. the dilemma full [...]
Students swarm into Sprouts, UBC’s student volunteer cafe, every Friday. They come carrying plates, bowls, forks and knives, and they come with an appetite. It’s an appetite for more than a well-balanced, vegan meal. These students want to take a bite out of the huge amount of wasted food tossed into the garbage every week. [...]
While a vegetarian diet has its benefits, simply replacing your chicken with chard isn’t enough. The key to proper vegetarianism is supplementing the nutrients lost when animal-based foods are removed. Mike Green, Brooke Hykaway and Jessica Michielin take a bite out of the equation that vegetarianism automatically equals healthy. how to train your dragon ipod [...]
By Katie Dangerfield, , and In the past backyard plum tree yielded only six plums, but last fall the tree produced six one-gallon pails of plums. The abundance of fruit is just one of many benefits Sims has noticed since she started keeping two beehives in her backyard last June. “At the moment what the [...]
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