4TheRcrd Mag.

Above: Jacob Amoah (7)
Asebu, Ghana
It’s 6:30 am in Asebu, a rural community in central Ghana. All of the orphans at Asebu’s Home of Hope are fetching water for their morning baths, all of them except Jacob. ‘Jo’ as he is sometimes called, is hiding in the bushes behind his home with feces running down […]

Duncan McNicholl, a friend of 4TheRcrd’s at Engineers without Borders (EWB) is heading to Malawi in southern Africa with Engineers Without Borders working in the agriculture sector. These good people featured LUGZ COFFEE LOUNGE on their site for getting involved in importing fairly traded coffee’s into Vancouver and featuring them in our stores in […]

I’ve been out of the loop for a bit, fixing up another space and running a thousand operations around the town. But here ya have it, I’m back, and I’m starting with a few articles to keep y’all captivated. The first is a gig I’m going to resurface at also, run by a […]

A little over two years ago, ForestEthics was delighted to share one of the biggest moments in our history with the world — the announcement of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements in British Columbia. After a decade-long struggle to save the Great Bear Rainforest, BC Premier Gordon Campbell and his government agreed to protect 5 […]

I’ve read about an interesting Food Bank concept you may not know about. This one is headed by a local Highschool here in Vancouver.
York House School is currently involved in the Rogers Phones-for-Food High School Challenge. In this challenge, old cell phones are recycled to reduce e-waste. The money raised from recycling the cell […]

How many reversible implant procedures are there really? And why would your doctor tell ya to remove a transplant?
Meanwhile, it’s good to know that, after all these millions in outreach funds spent in BC, crystal meth use is actually declining in the province. But by how much? What I don’t get is […]

“It’s 7 am: do you know where your toast came from? Eating breakfast toast: a simple ritual to start the day. The bread probably came from a bakery or grocery store, but beyond that who knows where the wheat came from – never mind the seeds that grew the wheat. Do we need to know?

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We’ve all heard of “the inconvenient truth”- that the excessive release of greenhouse gases as a result of human activities is causing changes in our environment and a rise in the global mean temperature.
If you’re someone who thinks that climate change will not affect you right now, and is only affecting animals in Antarctica, think […]

{Editors Note: This is a useful post from our friends at ForestEthics, and we’re proud to reproduce it here.} Exactly five years ago, the United States Congress created the immensely popular Do Not Call Registry, giving every American the choice to live free of telemarketing calls.
Today, we’re still forced to live with a different form […]

Vancouver’s becoming like NYC: I’m deeply troubled with this — when are the robins coming, check these lines. (1) In the wake of another targeted shooting this weekend, Vancouver police are admitting their solve rate is low; and then this on: (2) The force is solving half as many gang hits as other murders; […]