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Community Food Hub - An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Green Economy Green Economy
- Published: 16 November 2010 16 November 2010
A Community Food Hub is an idea that is being proposed by the Food Action Network of the One Straw Society. A hub for the processing, storage and distribution of local food.would lend support to local farmers and food production here on the Sunshine Coast. The proposed facility will include a commercial kitchen, warehouse storage, space for workshops, meetings and farmer's markets.
No Sympathy for Campbell
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- Written by Rafe Mair Rafe Mair
- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 16 November 2010 16 November 2010
I’m an environmental activist trying to save our salmon, our rivers, and our farm land. Why should I get warm and mushy all over because Campbell has been pushed out of his office?
Elphinstone Forest & Water Group Advocates for Policy Change
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 26 October 2010 26 October 2010
Community members of the Roberts Creek area are raising concerns over their water quality as logging by BC Timber Sales takes place in their watershed. They have formed the Elphinstone Water and Forest Ad-hoc Community Group to bring attention to their concerns and to advocate for change in forestry policy.
Trial Deal a Disgrace
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- Written by Rafe Mair Rafe Mair
- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 22 October 2010 22 October 2010
When I opened the Vancouver Province this morning and turned to the editorial page I thought Wendy had thrown some strange potion into my cereal, as I read: “And what sort of a government do we have in BC when our top justice official, Attorney-General, Mike DeJong, can agree to pay the crooked officials' million legal fees as part of a deal between a supposedly independent special prosecutor and the defence lawyers? What is the point of hiring an independent prosecutor in the first place, if at the end of the process the attorney-general – a a politician in the very government whose integrity the case brings into question – will be needed to approve such a massive carrot in the plea bargain".
Gospel rock revised development plan to be unveiled
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- Written by Billie Carroll Billie Carroll
- Category: News News
- Published: 26 June 2010 26 June 2010
On June 28th the Gospel Rock Refinement Working Committee will present their "refined" development plan for public input at a public meeting, after a year of reviewing the development options of the original plan. Gibsons citizens rallied in Lower Gibsons on Sunday, June 27 in opposition to Gospel Rock waterfront development.
Gibsons fire destroys heritage building, homes
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- Written by Billie Carroll Billie Carroll
- Category: News News
- Published: 04 June 2010 04 June 2010
Coles Marine Diesel Repair, a heritage building in Lower Gibsons, was destroyed by fire on Friday, June 4.
Environmental Impacts’ Unsustainable Distances: Truth and Official Accounts
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- Written by Loys Maingon Loys Maingon
- Category: Current Users Current Users
- Published: 25 May 2010 25 May 2010
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume. –Tony Hayward, CEO of BP (14 May 2010) 1
SCRAPS, How it All Began
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- Written by Anne Miles Anne Miles
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 24 May 2010 24 May 2010
I can’t believe it’s been 22 years! My friends and I may have been talking about recycling even before the summer of ‘88, but it was then that SCRAPS began to get off the ground. All the papers have disappeared from my filing cabinet. I think I passed them on, a few years back, to some SCRAPS board members who were trying to save the society—so, you’ll have to forgive me if I get things wrong after all this time, in terms of places, dates, etc..But here is my recollection of how SCRAPS began.
Chilliwack River Gravel Pit Opposition Grows
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- Written by Rafe Mair Rafe Mair
- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 24 May 2010 24 May 2010