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Vancouver: Trash Talkin’

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Bernice Paul.

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The Clean Bin Project documents a year of living zero-waste
On a dark and rainy Vancouver evening, I paid a visit to the trio behind the Clean Bin Project. Jenny Rustemeyer, Rhyannon O’Heron and Grant Baldwin are housemates who more than a year ago decided they’d simply had enough of ”stuff.” They also realized that if [...]

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The Kootenays: Flathead Valley Controversy

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Dave Quinn.

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Grizzly rich and people poor, there wasn’t a lot of chatter about B.C.’s Flathead Valley – perhaps the single most important basin for carnivores in the Rocky Mountains – until someone proposed an open-pit mine.

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Northern B.C.: The Last Wild River

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Dave Quinn.

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Local First Nations and conservationists such as David Suzuki and Wade Davis have united to “save the sacred headwaters” of the Stikine, Nass and Skeena, three of the province’s most important salmon-producing rivers. The collapse of B.C.’s southern salmon stocks in the summer of 2009, resulting in closures to commercial and First Nations fishing on the Fraser and dramatic decreases in grizzly populations on the south coast, only reinforces the urgency of their struggle.