Feb 8, 2012

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot • The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. – Chinese Proverb • I often reflect on this wise proverb when thinking about the grassroots community seed shows we introduced to the West Coast over 20 years ago. The intention was to educate people on the imperative of preserving plant genetic diversity...

Jan 5, 2012

SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki   The federal government has announced an exciting NIMBY project. It will put nature in millions of backyards by establishing Canada’s first urban National Park in the country’s largest urban area. Nestled in the east end of the Greater Toronto Area, Rouge National Park will be unlike any other. It won’t...

Jan 3, 2012

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina   In creating recipes, it is my great pleasure to collaborate with expert chef Joseph Forest; the process allows me to improve my sensory awareness of food, something dietitian training didn’t include. During our exchanges, Joseph has become fascinated with the field of nutrition, which I bring to the table, and our...

Jan 3, 2012

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot Rebecca Hosking grew up on a beef and dairy farm in Devon where she fell in love with wildlife and then went on to become a wildlife filmmaker. With her father and uncle both beyond retirement and struggling to keep the farm going, Rebecca decided to return to her roots and take over the operation of the farm. There was...

by Brigette DePape   Governments at this year’s climate negotiations in Durban failed to take any meaningful action on climate change, allowing emissions to rise to ever more dangerous levels. But if COP17 was an unprecedented failure, the civil disobedience was an unprecedented success. The text produced at COP17, the 17th Conference of Parties...

Dec 1, 2011

by Adam Sealey What caught my attention a couple of months ago were these yellow & blue ‘Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer’ self-standing cardboard promo units on display in cafes, bike shops and other retailers around BC. I asked myself what is a pipeline company doing with bicycles and cancer research? Bikes don’t burn oil and pipelines...

Dec 1, 2011

SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki In early November, 70 Harvard University students walked out of their introductory economics class. They wrote professor Gregory Mankiw, saying the biased nature of his course “perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality in our society.” Mankiw is the author ofPrinciples of Economics, a...

Nov 1, 2011

What we stand to lose in “Beautiful British Columbia” interview by Sonya Weir Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on indigenous cultures. In 2009, he was chosen to be the speaker for the Massey Lectures for his publication The Wayfinders. More recently, the National Geographic...

Oct 2, 2011

  SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki   As a nation and a global community, Canada has a history of ignoring environmental crises until it’s all but too late. Many of us remember the 1990s when tens of thousands of Canadians in the Maritimes lost their livelihoods after overfishing wiped out fish stocks. The boom-and-bust history reflected in the...