Updated Feb 21, 2013:

Attached is a 28 pg. sample from the book Small_House_Book_sample.pdf

Attached are about 15 or so house plans …

Sip Lattés and Fix Busted Stuff at the Repair Café

By Katherine Sharpe

It says something about where we’ve come as a society that the simple act of fixing something that’s broken is considered a revolutionary act. Yet here we are. It’s cheaper and easier to buy a new toaster, lamp, printer, or chair than it is to mend the one you have when it breaks — never mind that you may already be jonesing for an…

StyroFree Challenge (styrofree.com), an initiative that aims at educating the public and restaurant owners about environmental and health impacts of polystyrene packaging and inspiring restaurants to embrace green alternatives, has partnered up with SPEC and the Tiffin Project. We are working on a new project called Green 2 Go and as a first step we’re collecting information on the current take-out container use and practices in Vancouver. Please help us gather the information by…

Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest

http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/02/21/its-not-fairytale-seattle-build-nations-first-food-forest

Sad news. Our great friend and ally, Robin Wheeler, passed away Monday afternoon, after battling pancreatic cancer for the past year. A kind, wise, patient and loving soul, Robin was the author of Gardening for the Faint of Heart and Food Security for the Faint of Heart, founder of the Sustainable Living Arts School and One Straw Society, and taught several dozen workshops for Village over the past 3 years.…

Please look at Marcin Jakubowski's - Civilization Starter Kit video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63Cy64p2lQ

if you're interested in seeing a concept for blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built

cheaply from scratch... It's something they've dubbed the…

(This post was originally on my blog: The Medium)

It’s hard to believe a couple of years ago, the rambling 15 acre Little Mountain site at Main and 36th Avenue was populated with…

Cape Horn Interchange

By Eric Doherty, January 26, 2012



On Wednesday (January 25), B.C. transportation minister Blair Lekstrom once again announced the Evergreen SkyTrain line to Coquitlam and the Tri-Cities area. This time he announced the start of work after more than a decade of delays—well sort of. Only minor…

Home Harvest Farms

http://www.homeharvestfarms.com/CHANGE%20Presentation.pdf

When 30% of people are growing 10% or more of our own food we’ll begin to notice that: “The economy” shifts from more GLOBAL to more LOCAL

If you like this please forward it.…

JOB DESCRIPTION –Administrative Coordinator

Hours per week: 16

Pay per hour: $18

Desired start date: Monday February 6^th, 2012

Canada’s oldest environmental not-for-profit, the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation requires a part-time Administrative Coordinator for our office in Kitsilano. Responsibilities include monthly bookkeeping, membership and donation processing, answering inquiries from the general public and supporting…

Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veg

By VINCENT GRAFF

Last updated at 4:31 PM on 10th December 2011

Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too.

Outside the…

Vancouver has some significant experience with local farm produce selling coops and other services, including NOWBC (www.nowbc.ca), Home Grow-In, and Eternal Abundance (www.eternalabundance.ca).  Not all such ventures have been or are successful, especially when competing with heavily-subsidized industrial agriculture and its…

This article is in part a reminder to check our home page often to read the RSS feeds from Yes!, Chelsea Green, and Grist Magazines.  They are in the lower left column.  These are free headline links to great information on what is happening in our global ecological system and on how to live sustainably.  This article below,…

View the Home Harvest Farms Challenge December update in PDF format at…

Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here? ...a proposal from Michael Moore

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Friends,

This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of the movement. It was attended by 40+ people and the discussion was both inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the movement's "vision statement" to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:

We…

I've finally tallied up the numbers and in order of greatest harvest, here goes:

23 oz   Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Helper* - beefsteak

16.25   Pollock

16 oz   Black Krim* - most tasty

14.5     Taxi

13.25   Black Prince

12 oz   Yellow Pear

9.25     Victoria* - tasty early producer

7 oz     Elfin Cherry

6.75     Principe Borghese

118 oz TOTAL

(7 lb, 6 oz)

What have I learned?  They are…