Dude that rode 7500km on his bike for a bus-less tour is at UBC.
Here’s an interesting concert coming up. It’s Vancouverite Jeremy Fisher, who is probably quite well know to those in the sustainability circles. Here’s a YouTube video…
Read articleWhat different parts of the world eats in one week.
Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel have a newish book out which is just wonderful from a food perspective. Essentially, they’ve traveled the world to meet “average”…
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THE TRAP OF PROGRESS
RONALD WRIGHT – DEC 6th, 2006
Quicktime 7 Required “The Trap of Progress” (Dec 6th, 2006 Rotary Centre for the Arts’ Mary Irwin Theatre in downtown Kelowna) VIDEO (~80Mb) – – –…
Read articleAl Gore in Vancouver (although tickets are freaking expensive!)
Just a heads up to those of you who can afford hundreds of dollars to hear Al Gore speak in Vancouver (he’s in town this Saturday).…
Read articleMe, plant genomics, and North China.
Well, I’m off to north China next week, although unlike Nigeria, it sounds like I’ll be wired in and still able to contribute to the blog.…
Read articleOld MacDonald Had a Farm, so Does UBC
The Trek to the farm may be long, but on a nice fall sunny day, when the wind is blowing and the leaves are falling, hop…
Read articleGreen Drinks on Campus
For networking and random chatting about all things green on campus, check this out (you’ll notice that the event on the poster has already occurred, but…
Read articleVisual number crunching: a graphic look at what we waste.
Allen’s earlier post on the issue of “waste”, reminded me of an interesting art exhibit I read about at my blog. Here we have Chris Jordan,…
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Unsung Heroes
By Nalini M. Nadkarni,
On a blustery day in the windy season, I walked out to my study plot in the tropical cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica. For the…
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