Plants don’t last forever -or- A call for new 10 meter diet crops
After 3 weeks away from my crops, I returned home to a surprise: flowers. But not just any flowers, lettuce flowers. Apparently, lettuce have flowers. I’m…
Read articleAnother great Chris Jordan image: 1 million disposable cups – the amount used by airline flights in the US every six hours.
Once again, Chris Jordan with a commanding use of aesthetics. This is as remarkable as it is horrendous. Go below the fold to zoom into the…
Read articleWhat is the Ecological Footprint of Disneyland?
Having just returned from a visit to the magic kingdom, the above was a question that continually haunted my consciousness. Disneyland was remarkably pristine in that…
Read articleImagine You’re Stuck on a Boat for 3 Weeks – What Would You Bring and Leave Behind?
This Wednesday I’ll be heading out on a three week research cruise to the northeastern sub-Arctic Pacific Ocean – or roughly somewhere around here: The arrow…
Read articleBiodiversity, Food Security, and Mr. Potato Head
Today, 22 May 2008, is the International Day for Biological Diversity. Happy Biodiversity Day, everyone! I’m sure you’re just like me, and when you think about…
Read articleIs BC Ferries Guilty of Greenwashing?
After spending 8+ hours loading, unloading, moving, hosing, smashing, fixing, taping, more taping, and more hosing, all of our ship-y science-y things were in order yesterday…
Read articleSummer Reading – What say you?
I have to admit, I don’t read very much. That isn’t true. I read so much (primary science literature) that I no longer want to read…
Read articleCycling for Everyone
The City Program at Simon Fraser University is presenting this free public talk by Dr. John Pucher of Rutgers University. Cycling for Everyone: Lessons for Vancouver…
Read articleZero Mile Diet Trend A Provincial Hit?
I’ve been scooped! From the Tyee: The director of a Vancouver non-profit urban-agriculture group suggests that the eat-local movement may have reached a new tipping point.…
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Eaton’s, Urinals, and Kitsch
By Dave Semeniuk,
How does one spend their first 24 hours back on solid ground? Well, while regaining my ‘land legs’ (read: opposite of sea legs – the feeling…
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