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While Castlegar City Council makes an impassioned plea for residents to understand the tough times the City is facing, it seems that all the good work, energy and momentum that was generated during the Integrated Community Sustainability Planning (ICSP) sessions seems to have fallen to the wayside.
Council still has a focus on attracting new businesses to the [...]
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In the quest for useful plants to grow in our urban farm, we are looking at basket willow as a resource that has multiple uses:
Fedges – A cross between a fence and a hedge.
Living Structures
Basket-weaving
Coppicing for sustainable timber harvesting, and
Carbon sequestration
I’d like to give a plug to a local Kootenay Boundary grower of a variety [...]
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The Grade-A services we enjoy in Castlegar from the library, water, sewer, streets and sidewalks, right through to the snow clearing operation comes with a hefty price tag. There is an indication out there that we are about to find this out, either through reduced services or increased taxes, as council balances a shift of taxes away from the industrial tax base, predominantly funded by the Celgar pulp mill.
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The Street View is only available on the Highways throughout the West Kootenays, but in larger centres such as Kelowna, Spokane, WA and Cranbrook, (as well as all the big cities), all streets have been photographed and input into the software.
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Back in August of 2006, I decided to start up my fourth experiment in blogging, a professional blog about issues surround Sustainability, Land Development, Engineering and the local economy and urban form. The first three blog experiments have been long abandoned now, but UrbanWorkbench is still going strong, and with this post we’ve hit 900!
According to the computational search engine, Wolfram|Alpha, it has been 1288 days, or 920 weekdays since we started
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As the media and community frenzy of the Olympics torch passed through the Kootenays this weekend, I recognized the ambitions of recognition surrounding this corporatized event. The cynic in me sees the throwing of a party, or multiple parties along a carefully planned route, as co-opting support for the debt we are expected to incur [...]
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A lot of opportunities to participate in surveys and learning pass across my various “desks”, and I recently received a request from a group that I hold in high regard, led by Hans Schrier and Sandra Brown at the University of British Columbia.
The Soil Water and Communities Group from the Faculty of Land and [...]
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