November 25th, 2011 | Blog, Community, Vancouver, BC, BC, food, food bank, organic, poverty
Comprehensive look at how local currency can help build a local food economy in Vancouver, BC by Jordan Bober
September 12th, 2011
Spending time in Burma, I have seen this type of education in effect in the most basic manner possible. Children are generally made to sit on stools, still as boards. They spend hours reciting things, sometimes in English, with no knowledge of what they are saying. This is not authentic education, w ...
June 17th, 2011
In the latest newsletter from www.Nyeleni.org covers the issues of food speculation and rising food prices. Please view the full newsletter here. A short excerpt describing the current food crisis: Higher Food Prices but Poorer Farmers Nowadays the whole food system - from production to proces ...
February 20th, 2011
CITY COUNCIL HAS CALLED A PUBLIC HEARING ON MARCH 17TH TO INCREASE CONDO TOWER HEIGHTS IN CHINATOWN. Around 64% of Chinatown residents are low-income; there are around 1,000 people in close to that many rooms. There are at least 10 private hotels and two major cheap apartment buildings in Chinato ...
February 15th, 2011
I discovered this group, Nourishing the Planet while checking out some links over at The Bovine. When I saw this video I felt really touched and hopeful. A cow or goat can really make a difference to a family, whether it is here in Vancouver or over in Africa. This is a very basic and ancient re ...
March 20th, 2010
I was just reading a great interview with our local Ubuntu community's 'buzz' generator, Randall Ross and The Agora National (I will post it later), and it got me thinking about making mistakes. We've all grown up in a world where mistakes are a big deal. In the world we live in now, you can make a ...
February 2nd, 2010
Paul Farmer has worked in rural Haiti for more than twenty years. He is a doctor and anthropologist and has written several books on health inequalities. Known as Dokte Paul throughout Haiti, he has improved rural health by teaching basic health practices as the best preventive medicine. He has also ...
