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Crabapples and Apples

by Mike Thomas on September 2, 2009

in Castlegar, Health, Our House, Urban Farming

This week we’ve been inundated with Crabapples and Apples. The sweet cloying smell of these tiny fruits ripening in the kitchen kept the yellow jackets and fruit flies bumping against the windows screens.

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Peak Health

by Mike Thomas on August 24, 2009

in Community, Health, Science, Sustainability, Transitions

Health Care services are entirely dependent on petroleum products – just about every book on the subject of our energy situation has pointed this out, and acknowledged that the level of health care we enjoy today is not sustainable without plentiful oil.

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Kootenay Grain Community Supported Agriculture

by Robyn Thomas on July 23, 2009

in Health, Kootenays, Rural, Sustainability, Transitions, Urban Farming

The following post was written by my wife Robyn, hopefully we’ll see more posts on her perspective of local food and sustainability.
Looking forward to the harvest…
As I gaze across my flourishing garden my mouth begins to water as I imagine the taste of buttery-baked buttercup squash on a cold winter evening.   I ponder the yield [...]

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Monsanto’s Roundup is Confirmed to Kill Human Cells

by Mike Thomas on June 25, 2009

in Business, Castlegar, Environmental, Health, Play Spaces, Sustainability

Image via Wikipedia

Does the City of Castlegar use Roundup? Almost a year ago, a motion was brought forward to council to stop using pesticides – the motion was not seconded by any of the other councillors, so the issue wasn’t even discussed to hear why the council was happy with the current use of pesticides [...]

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Worms in the Kitchen

by Mike Thomas on February 23, 2009

in Castlegar, Health, Our House, Sustainability

We’re about to restart out affair with worms. Sadly, on leaving Australia we had to say goodbye to our Red Tiger worms and their lovely black box home. Now, after some prompting form the local worm lady, Betty, Eden’s Girl Guide’s group, and the fact that our outdoor compost pile is under about 2 feet [...]

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Yard Fresh Eggs

by Mike Thomas on January 28, 2009

in Health, Urban Farming

We had a discussion at work about fresh local eggs. One comment made was that some people prefer not knowing “where the eggs come from”. My attitude is that eggs are so much better from free range, (sure they eat bugs and stuff), and they are so much better for you too…

Image by Dystopos via [...]

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Leftovers for Mr Obama

by Mike Thomas on November 12, 2008

in Energy, Health, Sustainability

Few people realize the magnitude of change that is being heralded with the new presidency – but most of the change has nothing to do with Barack Obama’s ability to lead, it’s outside of even his sphere of control. The world as we know it is changing – will the leadership of our nations choose [...]

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Poverty and Global Priorities – Blog Action Day 2008

by Mike Thomas on October 15, 2008

in Business, Civil Engineering, Development, Health, History, Play Spaces, Sustainability, Urban Planning, Water

UrbanWorkbench tackles many topics related to Civil Engineering, Urban Planning and Sustainability, and as part of Blog Action Day 2008, I’d like to take a step away from the construction and development side of things, and focus on the issues of poverty and the collision of climate change and peak oil. This is just a [...]

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