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		<title>Prenatal genetic testing: The choice to know more</title>
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It&#8217;s a choice that many pregnant women struggle to make. How much do you need to know about your baby before it is born?
For some women, knowing more would not be helpful. It could be a source of stress and anxiety. For others, the results from a genetic test could be reassuring; it&#8217;s a way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/05/11/prenatal-genetic-testing-the-choice-to-know-more/</link>
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		<title>Map: Reporting on land and food issues</title>
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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.



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		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/19/map-reporting-on-land-and-food-issues/</link>
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		<title>Urban farms struggle to provide low-cost food</title>
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The SOLEfood Farm in East Vancouver is part of a larger project to provide locally grown food in Vancouver&#8217;s poorest neighbourhood. 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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/13/urban-farms-struggle-to-provide-low-cost-food/</link>
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		<title>Safe cosmetics campaign targets Canadian girls</title>
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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 FemmeToxic, a Montreal-based campaign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/12/safe-cosmetics-campaign-targets-canadian-girls/</link>
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		<title>East Vancouver backyards turned into urban farms</title>
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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 Fresh Roots, an urban agriculture project that turns yard space into farms and divides the spoils between hosts, gardeners and shareholders.
&#8220;We wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/fresh-roots-farms-east-vancouver-yards/</link>
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		<title>Reusable bags might not be as green as they seem</title>
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Jenny Hughes has a problem with reusable shopping bags.
Hughes owns Me &#38; You, 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 hot-button environmental issue. She said that Me &#38; You could barely keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/reusable-shopping-bags-arent-as-green-as-they-seem/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Street trees&#8217; make wood chips, not money</title>
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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.
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		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/street-trees-make-chips-not-money/</link>
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		<title>Stanley Park strives to balance ecology and tourism</title>
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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&#8217;s natural beauty.
Jes Abeita, Rebecca Cheung and Ursula Diaz produced this report.
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		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/stanley-park-strives-to-balance-ecology-and-tourism/</link>
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		<title>Students savour gourmet &#8216;garbage&#8217;</title>
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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.
Students volunteer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/ubc-community-eat/</link>
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		<title>Variety is the key ingredient for vegetarians</title>
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While a vegetarian diet has its benefits, simply replacing your chicken with chard isn&#8217;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.
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		<link>http://thethunderbird.ca/2010/04/09/variety-is-the-key-ingredient-for-vegetarians/</link>
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