My thoughts, from the Food Talk series organized by Richard Wolack in Vancouver. Thanks for inviting me Richard.   ..read more

Nick Saul, Toronto-based co-author of The Stop: How the fight for good food transformed a community and inspired a movement, is coming to Vancouver to explore possibilities for a community food centre in the Vancouver area. He’ll be at the Roundhouse Community Centre for World Food Day celebrations on Oct. 16, along with the Vancouver Food Policy Council. Here’s my review of his book, originally published in the Literary Review of Canada. If you google “food” and “revolution” in Chapters.Indigo, eight titles will pop up—not including diet books. Include the search words “movement” and “food ..read more

Please join me at this Sustainable Economics workshop at Simon Fraser University: Sustainable Economics for the Real World Nov 1-2, 2013 9am-5:30pm $650 Instructor/speakers: Alexis Morgan, Global Water Roundtable, WWF; Peter Ladner, author (The Urban Food Revolution); Mark Pezarro, Earth Voice Strategies; Basil Stumborg, BC Hydro; Coro Strandberg, Strandberg Consulting; Bruce Irvine, Dillon Consulting Ltd. Sustainability requires us to integrate economic considerations with environmental and social factors in the short and long term. Unfortunately, traditional financial and economic technique ..read more

The rich get organics and the poor get diabetes– now insects! That’s the dark way to look at this amazing win by McGill business students over 10,000 competing teams from around the world. Bill Clinton awarded the prize. To meet the challenge of world food security, the students promoted the potential of insect farming to help feed the world in the face of ongoing hunger tormenting a quarter of the world’s children. Yes, it’s a good question whether eating insects is intended for those of us meat-eaters who are consuming far more of our fair share of the planet’s food resources, or just for p ..read more

Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables ..read more

Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables ..read more

A policy that was supposed to be protection for farmers has become a loophole for property owners building giant houses, sometimes operating them as illegal hotels, getting cheap (by B.C. standards) land prices, and skirting taxes. Richmond needs to take action to prevent this mockery of agricultural land protection. https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/farm-land-or-large-mansions-on-the-richmond-responds ..read more

A policy that was supposed to be protection for farmers has become a loophole for property owners building giant houses, sometimes operating them as illegal hotels, getting cheap (by B.C. standards) land prices, and skirting taxes. Richmond needs to take action to prevent this mockery of agricultural land protection. https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/farm-land-or-large-mansions-on-the-richmond-responds ..read more

https://www.carbonbrief.org/farming-overtakes-deforestation-and-land-use-as-a-driver-of-climate-change?   ..read more

https://www.carbonbrief.org/farming-overtakes-deforestation-and-land-use-as-a-driver-of-climate-change?   ..read more