Paper, Plastic, or Neither? An Olympic Terry Challenge
Some Olympic math … The 2010 Olympics are coming to Vancouver in approximately 785 days (according to the monstrous countdown clock outside the Vancouver Art…
Read articleSENSibility 7: Like Fish? Only 50 years left
Do you really like fish? I really like fish. I like fish and chips at Go Fish near Granville island. I used to devour sushi (before…
Read articleCould We Feed Our City Off the Back 55?
As a UBC’er who lives in Richmond, I drive past the Garden City lands every time I‘m avoiding traffic on No. 3 Road. This 55 Hectare…
Read articleA Local Food Feast
For the first time in my three years living in Vancouver, I was able to return for (American) Thanksgiving to my hometown of Pullman, in southeastern…
Read articleSustainable Design by Designers
Staying in line with the essence of my previous post on constructing sustainable buildings, I’ve been following this great blog lately: Inhabitat Inhabitat.com is a weblog…
Read articleConstructing Sustainable Buildings…or Laboratories…or Both
John Robinson’s seminar was awesome – I almost switched disciplines. He’s the project director behind the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), a building set…
Read articleUpcoming Seminars…
There are two interesting talks around UBC this week: The first is tomorrow at 4pm in Earth and Ocean Sciences Main Building (directions), Room 330a: John…
Read articleLooking for Water
Rosy McKinnon stood in the barn doorway with a battered yellow bucket. She was watching the sunset above the arid landscape of the farm, adorning the…
Read articleToday is buy nothing day… (although you can still get some stuff because of it)
Here’s what wiki says about consumerism: Consumerism is the equating of personal happiness with the purchasing of material possessions and consumption. Just so you know, today…
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Reduce, reuse, recycle, or chuck it in the garbage – Do we really know which is best?
By Kaston Leung,
The environmentalism movement is currently experiencing an injection of perhaps well-needed popularity. Celebrities who own multiple homes that could each comfortably house the inhabitants of small…
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