Yesterday I had six meetings. Not all of them were the stuffy sit-around-the boardroom type of meeting, in fact one of them was a site meeting, actually more of a conversation, out at a site. I was late, owing to the previous meeting’s overrun, but as I drove up to the detention pond in the [...]
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Or “Why I don’t trust BP to clean up anything” I haven’t dedicated much space here to the ongoing saga going down in Louisiana as BP and the US government fumble to maintain the appearance of control of the situation. I’ll leave the blow-by-blow account of these mishandling to people with more time and patience [...]
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Now why doesn’t this surprise me? The document from Houston University claims that governments wanting to use Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) have overestimated its value and says it would take a reservoir the size of a small US state to hold the CO2 produced by one power station. Previous modelling has hugely underestimated the [...]
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The City is once again providing a yard waste pickup program. I’m thinking of using it this year for the tenacious weeds that keep popping up in our veggie patch. Most of our compostable material goes into one of our three compost systems. The toughest choice comes with tree prunings, this year we have already amassed about twenty [...]
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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 [...]
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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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"In Transition 1.0" is now available on Vimeo. Watch it here… In Transition 1.0 from Transition Towns on Vimeo. Technorati Tags: movie, Transition Network, Transition Town, Transition Towns
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The BC Ministry of Environment recently established a wordpress blog for the Living Water Smart project. As far as I know, this is the firs example of a provincial ministry using blogging software, including permitting comments, (with moderation) on the site! The first post, by Barry Penner, the Minister, requests comments, and at last count [...]
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