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Kiwassa Neighbourhood House has recently started a new group for youth called the Northeast Youth Action Committee.  The goal of the committee is to create a youth-driven group which will identify and carry out community development projects in the Hastings- Sunrise Neighbourhood. 

The youth who are currently involved have identified the environment and issues of food sustainability as important to youth in this community, so it will be the focus of our first project.  We…

We've been encouraging art on Green Streets (traffic circle and corner bulge) gardens - and... Veggies can be artful, I think. 

Delighted to read in the most recent Green Streets newsletter that they're now allowing vegetables.

http://vancouver.ca/engsvcs/streets/greenstreets/media.htm

CACV folk who are also Green Street volunteers and doing art in gardens include:

Ella - 8th and…

Good News! The DHR rolls again this weekend! #1207, now 106 years old, will be running on half-hour intervals between 12:00 noon and 17:00 hrs (possibly later on Canada Day) between Granville Island and Cambie St. Only a few steps from Olympic Village Station on the Canada Line, or the #84 bus.…

Last year I concocted kale pesto and froze batches of it. It has a rather dark flavor and we're still eating it.

This year, we planted daikon radishes and red frilly mustard and perhaps they weren't planted early enough or the plants decided to go to seed because of the warm/cold wet weather instead.  Who knows?  Instead of having long beautiful daikon roots to harvest, we have short stumpy roots and lots of greens and flowers. The greens by themselves are pretty bitter so we googled…

Evergreen is inviting Vancouver youth between the ages of 15 and 20 are invited to participate in Architects of a Green Legacy - an 8 week project designed to build bridges between communities, develop youths' skills and to transform the spaces we live in.

As an Architect, you will work with a team of diverse youth to learn, share ideas and develop a neighbourhood greening and art project that promotes creativity and…

SPEC and KNH presents: The Westside Pocket Market

With the love for food and community, the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC) and Kits Neighborhood House (KNH) is organizing ten Pocket Markets in Kits, to nurture the growing local food movement and boost the local economy.

Pocket Markets play an important role in supporting the production and distribution of local food. The markets help bridge…

To love a person is to learn their heart’s song & to sing it to them when they’ve forgotten http://ow.ly/5kU79    http://tumblr.com/xgo323gxuj

This great article was sourced to The Urban Country and depicts a perfectly Transition project.   

Certain veggies seem to thrive in our conditions and don't care if the spring was cold and wet. Yes, they are leeks and kale. Ever since I started planting these vegetables in my garden three years ago, I have never regretted these easy care plants. Both overwinter here no problem (with good drainage) and during the summer need occasional watering and not much else.

My kale plants keep on seeding themselves in my plot and when I harvest the young leaves, the plant just keeps on…

This year we're expanding the demonstration neighbourhood village to 8 tents (plus open space). We currently have 4 tents, and are looking to borrow 4 more.

Please contact Ross ross@villagevancouver.ca

The weather has turned and we are receiving clear blue sky and sunshine. My patio tomatoes are looking very healthy and are flowering. I need to start the basil soon.

Sunday and Monday were spent weeding out a mustard-like self-seeder from one garden plot at MOBY. That is one hazard of taking over someone else's plot. Last year we pulled out some huge celery like plants from this plot. After six hours of weeding, I can now see the onions, leeks, lemon balm, peas, nasturtiums, daikon…

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Here's a link to watch Dirt: The Movie

http://www.archive.org/details/DirtTheMovie

We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity

by Johann Hari

Sometimes, there are hinge-points in human history – moments when we have to choose between an exuberant descent into lunacy, and a still, sober voice offering us a sane way out. Usually, we can only see them when we look back from a distance. In 1793, the great democrat Thomas Paine said the French…