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CBC News looks at synergy between Inner City Farms and an electric composter

CBC News looks at synergy between Inner City Farms and an electric composter These three CBC news videos tell the story of food waste that is composted at Trafalgars Restaurant and Bakery in an electric Green Good composter (White Dragon), is further composted in a home vermiculture system, is used by an urban farmer to grow food, which is then sold back to the restaurant that created the waste.

See links here:

http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/09/23/cbc-news-looks-at-synergy-between-inner-city-farms-and-electric-composter/#more-14582

Coal billboards — can you help make them happen?

Hello,

Can you help us spread the word about a problem as serious as the tar sands, located in our “front yard,” and happening right now?

Roberts Bank Coal Port, just outside of Vancouver, is North America’s single largest exporter of global warming pollution. It has rapidly carved out a role in the export of US thermal coal to Asia. If there was a carbon-offshoring Olympics today, it would win the gold medal. Oddly enough, the general public hardly knows it’s there. We think it deserves more attention.

We’re close to finalizing a deal to post two billboards at the ferry terminal between Vancouver and Victoria in BC. See the images below. For one month, people waiting for the ferry would see these two billboards in rotation. Roberts Bank is just to the north. We hope this will get some people turning their heads and thinking about the future.

Interested in helping make it happen? Visit http://vtacc.org/coalbillboards

Thanks for giving this your consideration — we think this will shine a spotlight on BC’s behind-the-scenes role in fueling the climate crisis.

Kevin Washbrook
Voters Taking Action on Climate Change

PS — Like us, you’ve probably heard that Canada Starts Here: BC’s Job Plan, rolled out by Premier Clark this week, basically boils down to more of the same: digging up our resources and selling them overseas. It would be more accurate to call it Climate Change Starts Here: BC’s Resource Export Plan.

More than ever, it’s crucial we challenge the status quo and draw public attention to the role we play in the climate crisis. Our premier needs to offer us a vision that ensures a sustainable, healthy future for BC.

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Talk Green to Us In Your Language!

Hey everyone, we invite you to help us start the ball rolling on creating a “green dictionary” in your language. Please send us words (like the ones translated into Chinese below) that describe ecological and sustainability concepts that you would like to have translated or interpreted into a specific language. We want to be able to communicate to everyone about the importance of environmental sustainability! Let’s do this together!

“Sustainable” in Chinese is translated into 可持續發展 which literally means ‘development that can be continued’ but it is more exciting and active because it implies moving forward as well as embracing continuity.

“Solar panel” is 太陽能電池板 — literally, ‘solar power energy pool panel’.

“Wind power” is 風力發電 — or ‘wind power generate energy’.

“Carbon footprint” in Chinese is 碳足跡 which means exactly the same as in English. But it is also graphic in the Chinese language because you can literally see the footprint in “carbon” — black color, the color of coal.

“Renewable energy” is translated as: 再生能源 or ‘energy that is reborn’. How creative it is to describe a non-conventional, non-fossil-fuel energy source as a newborn?