ENVIROBITES – The Home Front
Urban coyotes There are an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 coyotes (Canis latrans) living in Greater Vancouver. Coyote encounters are common and the need to … Read more
Month: June 2011
What kind of self-image do you have?
by Marilyn Atkinson The experience of attending to one’s ‘self-image’ has been around since humans started to talk to each other about their personal … Read more
Setting a plate for local food
Eating locally will never be more satisfying than this. Sharing a meal with friends is one of life’s great pleasures, but sharing a meal … Read more
Yummy food needs good policy
by Lucy Sharratt In the midst of the federal election campaign, a radical citizen-led plan to address some of our most pressing health, hunger, climate … Read more
Tribal teachings restore food independence
by Dawn Morrison There is much to be learned from Elders and previous generations who share the wisdom of ways to overcome the stress … Read more
Ayahuasca and human destiny
by Dennis J. McKenna, Ph.D Dennis McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist and author. His research led to new frontiers of the inner-space; one of the … Read more
The Compassionate Diet
How What You Eat Can Change Your Life and Save the Planet by Arran Stephens with Elliot Jay Rosen What we eat is of such … Read more
The ‘Big O’
Osteoporosis screening – the fast track to dubious drugs DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels The ‘Osteoporosis Game’ works in five simple steps: 1) Be … Read more
from child soldier to singer for peace
An interview with Emmanuel Jal by Joseph Roberts and Bob Turner Emmanuel Jal could easily have become an embittered young man. Instead, he transcended … Read more
Enviropig™
A piggy you hope never to meet at market by Lucy Sharratt Mouse and e coli genes injected into a Yorkshire pig embryo Fifteen years ago in a … Read more