Local food
Islands Trust Launches Food Security Project
The Islands Trust has initiated a project to address the issue of food security in the Islands Trust Area and provide public education through a new food security web page."The Islands Trust can support food security by creating policies that deliberately link land-use planning with community development, ecological conservation and socio-economic sustainability," said Sheila Malcolmson, Chair of the Islands Trust Council. "Food security is about more than simply having enough to eat.
Vancouver School Board Introduces High School Sustainability Course
SOLARIS, a 4 credit, year long course in sustainability, is being offered to Vancouver students in grades 11 and 12. The course will focus on a range of topics from housing and transportation to forestry and fisheries. Read more here.Richmond approves $60-million to buy Garden City lands
Although Mayor Malcolm Brodie didn't like the terms of the deal, he said a deal's been brokered with the Musqueam Indian Band and the Canada Lands Company, and it wouldn't be appropriate for him to vote against it at this point.
But Brodie made his position clear during the special meeting of council Mionday, in which Coun. Sue Halsey-Brandt participated via conference call.
"It's not the deal I would have made," he said.
Rebuild Haiti, This Time Green
And show the world how to move to a just and sustainable economy. An 'Eco-conversion' Manifesto.
Harold Steves decries potential loss of farmland with South Fraser Perimeter Road project
Veteran Richmond city councillor and long-time farmer Harold Steves believes the B.C. Liberal government's proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road is a "crime against humanity".
Steves, a former Richmond MLA and cofounder of the Agricultural Land Reserve, was addressing a January 16 town hall meeting organized by the South Fraser Action Network, an umbrella group incorporating opponents of both the road and the Gateway Program, of which the road is a part.
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Digging for victory: Britain's food revolution
The UK must become more self-sufficient and increase food production on a big scale to cope with dwindling global sources
Britain is to commit itself to a massive increase in domestic food production to feed the population in the next 40 years, The Independent on Sunday has learnt. The UK will announce tomorrow that it intends to "play a full part" in meeting a United Nations target of raising food production by 70 per cent by 2050.
Buy-local push prompts Ontario grocers to go independent
Dale Kropf calls it Independence Day: On July 3, his five grocery stores in southwestern Ontario ceased to be Sobeys franchises.
Corporate policies prevented him from buying local products, he says, so he joined forces with four other former Sobeys franchisees and formed the independent Hometown Grocers Co-Op.
"We feel that local food, local presence is huge in our market and we wanted to take advantage of that," Kropf says.
Green Municipal Fund Supports Kamloops' Integrated Community Sustainability Plan
KAMLOOPS – Chair Robert Hobson, representing FCM’s Green Municipal Fund and the Honourable Cathy McLeod, on behalf of the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources, announced today a Green Municipal Fund (GMF) grant for the City of Kamloops. The $327,750 grant will be used to develop an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) in order to tie together various City plans and strategies and provide a comprehensive evaluation framework to guide future growth and development.
Oxfam dubs climate change greatest threat to humanity
OTTAWA — The damaging effects of climate change on hundreds of millions of the world's poor — hunger, lack of water, forced migration — is the single greatest threat to humanity this century, says a major new report by Oxfam.
And a Prairie drought at home that could drive up food prices is one tangible effect of that crisis on Canada, Oxfam Canada added Monday.
