Food

‘Most Livable City?’ A 30-Year Gap in Life Expectancy Exists Within Vancouver

Live in Vancouver? Then you’ve seen those annual rankings that celebrate it as one of the world’s “most livable cities.” But zoom in to the neighbourhood...

Book Review: The Permaculture City

Author: Toby Hemenway (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015) In the 1970s Australian biologist Bill Mollison and ecological designer David Holmgren were...

Vancouver’s urban agriculture movement

SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VANCOUVER: GLOBALIZATION & NEOLIBERALISM While globalization has come to be a highly-circulated term...

EVENT: Vancouver Design Week(end) 2017, May 12-14

Vancouver Design Week(end) will run from May 12–14 throughout Vancouver. Vancouver Design Week(end) (VDW) is the city’s official interdisciplinary design...

EVENTS: We The City: 2015 Community Summit

Via SFU Public Square: From October 30th to November 7th, SFU Public Square will host its fourth annual Community Summit. This year, through a series of...

Video Vancouver: What Feeds Us

How Food Fuels Vancouver In January 2015, the City of Vancouver’s Food Strategy turned two! The Food Strategy represents the culmination of over ten years...

Video Vancouver: A Growing Reality

MONTECRISTO magazine investigates the growing reality of urban agriculture in Vancouver, where a new vanguard of city farmers is proactively redefining...

FUEL Vancouver – Where are we now?

On Thursday, May 29, I had the opportunity to attend Day 1 of Dialogues of the FUEL conference here in Vancouver. FUEL ambitiously stands for the Future...

Video Vancouver: A Fresh Take on Urban Farming

Gardens are increasingly common features of Canadian schoolyards. But Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society is taking the idea to the next level: bringing their...

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Invitation to Save On Meats

Fork in the Road: Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionary

Burnaby Heights is an interesting and often overlooked neighbourhood. One of Vancouver’s original streetcar suburbs, the Heights is home to quiet...

Invitation to Places That Matter at the Russian Community Centre