Tech-savvy food start-up empowering local farmers
In a warehouse in east Vancouver, a sleek black box hangs on a wall near a phalanx of multicoloured electric tricycles. It’s an otherwise unremarkable setting — just[…]
Category: Environment
Kids slither up with rescued snakes
Ten Vancouver kids were the only ones to spend spring break learning about homeless garter snakes at what has become a wildly popular camp run by the Wildlife[…]
Futuristic farms making waves in B.C.
Innovative food start-ups in B.C. are pioneering a new technique in which fish and plants help each other thrive. Aquaponics combines aquaculture, or fish farming, with hydroponics, a[…]
B.C. organic farmers team up to solve seed scarcity
When Mel Sylvestre was just starting out as a young organic farmer on Vancouver Island, she got her first customers hooked on purple tomatillos. “People at the market[…]
Scientists urge consumers to make smart choices about seafood
Leading marine biologists are telling consumers to go beyond labels like local or imported when they are trying to make the best choice for sustainably caught seafood. “Canada[…]
New camera peers into nocturnal life of Grouse Mountain grizzlies
People will be able to get even more up close and personal with sleeping bears on Grouse Mountain from the safety of their homes, thanks to a new,[…]
Vancouver binners unite to talk trash with city
No one knows Vancouver’s garbage better than its hundreds of binners. Now, they may be lending their voices to decisions on waste-management policy. A new group dedicated to[…]
School garden program faces financial drought
A program at more than 60 Vancouver public schools that aims to teach schoolchildren about food is living on borrowed time. Think and Eat Green @ School (TEGS) was started[…]
Vancouver businesses scramble to meet composting deadline
Big changes are underway in Vancouver’s commercial kitchens as businesses scramble to meet the deadline for the upcoming organic waste ban. In the same way homeowners in single-family[…]
Salmon counts surge in West Vancouver
Spawning salmon numbers are climbing in West Vancouver, thanks in part to the efforts of students working with the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society Salmon counts were five times higher[…]
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