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Interesting survey method asking for a story so you can tell the Park Board what to do for the next five years. It takes only 5 minutes so you should fill one out and be counted. I said there should be more public food and eco-designed parks. Here’s the survey: 
The future of the world’s food will have a lot to do with cities, according to the Worldwatch Institute. I haven’t read its new two-years-in-the-making report yet, but am encouraged to see urban agriculture cited for important advantages including proximity to most of the world’s people, and its potential to empower women, build [...] What to do when your great guerrilla garden project runs into the stone wall of officialdom? Move it down the street! The planters outside the library showed how food can be grown even in very small areas, she added. She hoped public attention would prevent the removal of the edible garden. Guerilla garden transplanted [...] We know now the so-called “Green Revolution” that turfed millions of small farmers off their land for chemical-intensive industrial-sized farms was anything but “green.” And it didn’t work: 1 billion people are dying early from malnutrition and 1 billion are dying early from diet-related diseases while we continue to ravage the environment. So how [...]
A question some people ask when I tout growing more food in cities is toxins. Often it isn’t a question but a statement, such as, “I would never eat food from [some part of town they consider tainted]…it’s polluted.” Then they take their umbrage to somewhere like Safeway to stock up on produce [...] Holy crap. Bt toxins, widely used in genetically modified crops, have been found in human blood for the first time. Because this news comes from a Canadian study out of the University of Sherbrooke, you can imagine how this is the top story making huge headlines all over Canada. Not. I only learned it this morning by reading a [...]
The Tyee – Usufruct Is Not a Dirty Word. Use a new word in three different sentences and it will become part of your vocabulary. Today’s lesson: usufruct. It means the right to use the fruits of another’s property provided one does no harm. It’s a noun, so it can be used in [...] Sure, I may be a media whore for using every chance I get to plug my new book, Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution, available at your local independent bookstore, chain book store or on-line retailer for the low, low price of whatever they’re charging lately. But what do you call a [...] It’s been fun but fun can’t last. Here’s the last of the opera review series I’ve been doing for the past two years for The Tyee. My original goal was to help wrestle opera out of the hands of the haughty and put it back among the regular folks where it belongs. So I brought a [...] The Vancouver Sun has an article in this morning’s paper about (kicking my instep and tugging my forelock in embarrassment)… me. |
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