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Healing Tree

After more than two years of community engagement and planning and designing, the new Medicine Wheel Healing Garden opened yesterday in Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. People from the “four sacred directions” were invited to participate in a pipe … Continue reading

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Fruit Power

Interesting article from the New York Times on “fruit activists” blending art and politics and trees in urban centres. High concept or low impact? Who cares? You still get the fruit. And the community gets some great trees and another … Continue reading

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More and more trees

One more clipping from the press glut on Earth Day about the TreeKeepers program that’s ramping up this week. This one is from the Vancouver Province. One of the city’s two dailies. Not long after this story ran, a leaked … Continue reading

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Trees to the People

More on the TreeKeepers program helping people grow the urban forest in Vancouver. This clipping is from Vancouver 24 Hours, one of the daily giveaways that are crowding out the old traditional newspapers. Did you get your tree yet? The … Continue reading

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Go TreeKeepers

Thanks Darah Hansen and the Vancouver Sun for the shout out on the TreeKeepers program. Ball’s in your court, Vancouver residents (in our six pilot neighbourhoods). If you want to help grow the urban forest, and get a great deal … Continue reading

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Malaysian Spring?

You heard all about the Arab Spring that toppled dictators, right? Maybe it’s Malaysia’s turn. A friend sent a link to this pleasant video of Malaysians planting “flowers” for “peace” and “hope” and the “underdog” and such. Turns out to … Continue reading

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Newer Shinier Path

Come for the lessons on community-based agriculture and field education in international food justice, stay because they’re held in… Peru. The eight-week Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture starts June 24. Applications due May 17. Looks like a great way to … Continue reading

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Bowering Hits a Winner

When Canada finally got around to choosing its first Poet Laureate, they skipped right past the high-falutin’ Ontario crowd and the Quebec other-solitude cadres to select one of us, BC’s own George Bowering. He’s written dozens of books, not just … Continue reading

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Be Gangsta With Your Shovel

Great TED talk with Ron Finley on guerrilla gardening in South Central L.A. G Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA | Video on TED.com.

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Big Up to Bhutan

If there ever is a world government, I vote for Bhutan to lead it. The Himalayan country that gave us the Gross National Happiness index has just upped the ante on what it really means to be “sustainable” by becoming … Continue reading

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