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Farmer Profile: Snow Farm For over 9 years, the Snow family has been producing over 85 different organic vegetables including artichokes, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, collards, cucumber, fennel, kale, leeks, parsley, shallots and spinach on their farm. One of their biggest crops is celery. “I believe we have the largest celery farm, including the non-organic [...]

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, [...]

{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 [...]

Here’s a thought about entitlement. Before we started pumping it all out, there were about 6 trillion barrels of oil on our planet. By the best estimates, we’ve got about half of that left. There is currently a population of 6.5 billion people on the earth, and, if we all get a good crack at [...]

This year, the annual Earth Day celebration is expected to come on strong. The celebration is held at Jericho Beach Park, where last year’s crowd of 3000 doubled that of the previous year, thanks to the help of 100 volunteers. It must be said, however, that some of the attention might have been due to [...]

Let’s get decisive shall we? I read that the city has changed their Plaza “design [at Queen Elizabeth Park] a whopping 85 times after the contract was signed. They say work was delayed for three months because the City hadn’t fixed the concrete slab underneath the plaza.” Is that what our taxpayer’s dollars are going [...]

Let’s be clear here, who wants to sleep around and who, exactly, wants to be honest about it? In thee spring time, or any other time for that matter, so many are dating and scanning the landscapes for eligible lovers, mates, and partners. This is a snazzy link to educate the flocks of daters out [...]

On the eve of yet another Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d clue everyone in on some secrets of the flower industry. If you live in Vancouver and get some roses today, there’s a very good chance they come from Kenya. Here in the West, we are picky consumers. God forbid we buy flowers that are [...]

While doing some late night Saturday reading, I was unamusingly disturbed by what I reading in the premier issue of a Vancouver sustainability magazine (whose name I will keep under wraps) and in SFU’s “UniverCity News” regarding what’s going to be happening to the SFU community, at which I will soon be studying. It seems [...]

At 4:30 on this evening of January the 28th 2008, David Suzuki will be making an appearance and presenting a speech for UBC’s Science Week. Entry is by a minimum donation of $2, and all proceeds will be going towards the David Suzuki Foundation. His speech will be about the contraversy regarding the confluence of [...]