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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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Sometimes the best solutions to urban problems are the simplest. Portland, Oregon is allowing unused parking space to be used for food vendors, increasing economic activity in otherwise dead spaces.
“Outside of downtown, carts are forming neighborhood-oriented clusters” on vacant parking lots, McInelly points out. “At SERA we have promoted food carts as a low-cost urban design solution” [...]
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As the snow falls outside and most of the leaves have fallen, I’m reminded of all the things that were not accomplished on the to-do list. Despite this, we have a cold room full of apples, pumpkins and squash, preserved fruit and vegetables in canning jars, dried goods in the kitchen [...]
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Life is complicated, sometimes we just need to break down all of the information that bombards us, as well as our tasks, chores, and all those nagging thoughts of what we need to improve. This is my list, created in five minutes of things I want to improve for personal sustainability.
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Herb, who I first heard at the Future of Foods for the Kootenays Conference in Nelson in the Fall of 2007 ditched the PowerPoint and went with an interactive format “presentation” to a standing room only crowd. Coming from the states just as the Agricultural Land Reserve legislation was coming into effect, (mid 70’s). The [...]
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The Toronto Star ran two pieces today that relate to peak oil and preparedness. There is a bit of sensationalism going on in one of the articles, but most interesting is the response in the comments, here are links to the articles…
While panic is not the prescription, experts are [...]
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I’m interested in how much food people have in their houses and how long they think it will last in an emergency. Check the answer below that best describes your situation. (For those reading this in a feed reader or email, please click for poll).
How long could you survive on the food in your [...]
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Similar to many communities in the Kootenays, there are towns across North America that are facing tough decisions on their long term survivalbility in the changes that a global economy has enforced. Some communities are going for the local “eco” or tourism based experience market, and there have been some successes in the short term [...]
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