Archive for the category "environment"

Canon's Nurture Nature Awards

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Canon has announced the Nurture Nature Awards, which is “an environmental program that encourages Canadians to help protect or improve the natural habitat of an endangered or threatened species in their community.” Photo credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr They will be accepting applications online (from now until September 1st) containing your written plan on how […]

Car Free Vancouver Day 2009

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Sunday June 14th is Car Free Day in Vancouver Day with festivals and street parties happening in four neigbourhoods. Photo credit: Rob__ on Flickr The festival came out of the original 2005 car-free day on Commerical Drive, which lead to two events in 2006, another in 2007, and in 2008 we had the first city-wide […]

Emily Carr EV.ent This Friday

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Having driven across the city all day in a hybrid vehicle I can just imagine how smooth it would be to cruise around in a 100% electric vehicle and amazingly enough over the last few years students at Emily Carr University have come up with some prototype models for just that. Fuse Studio is announcing […]

Earth Day: Around Metro Vancouver

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I set out to Surrey this morning for a lovely morning stroll with my sister and Jakob along the right of way greenway – a network of trails that practically cross the entire city. We must have run into about 4 different groups of school children out and about for a class walk as well. […]

Earth Day 2009: Tech it Away

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Today I’ll be out and about around town using a Camry Hybrid to get around, thanks to @ToyotaCanada. I have a few destinations and I’ll be blogging throughout the day with updates on the events. The first stop on my Earth Day tour of Vancouver today is King George Secondary in the West End. The […]