Eat your vegetables, children! : – )
Dang, this luscious display at a farm in Langley today had tour participants buying bags ‘n bags of the good stuff!
I have to remember to watch for the Langley Environmental Partners farm tour next year!
Category Archives: Sustainability
Super Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver Fall Forum 2019
Great day at the Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver (@iscmv) Fall Forum today in Maple Ridge. I’ve been active on the ISCMV board for a few years.
Interesting speakers, and several educational tours. I chose to visit ARMS, the Alouette River Management Society (@AlouetteRiverMS) to see their hatchery and education center. Got to see a chum salmon dissection, and learn about coexisting with black bears and cougars.
Soggy Burnaby Rivers Day
It was a very soggy BC/World Rivers Day at the Burnaby Village Museum today. Thanks to all the volunteers!
Our Byrne Creek Streamkeepers Society booth
Byrne Creek Streamkeepers volunteers with Rivers Day founder Mark Angelo
Great chatting with Dannie, the Co-Existing with Coyotes Coordinator with the Stanley Park Ecology Society, who was in the booth next to ours.
Entertainment rain or shine!
Burnaby Councillor Joe Keithley on the left, Svend Robinson (former Canadian MP, running again in the upcoming election) to the right, and environmentalist, photographer, and First Nations educator John Preissl in the middle.
Sav Dhaliwal City of Burnaby councilor and chair of Metro Vancouver
Burnaby Mayor Michael Hurley
BC and World Rivers Day founder Mark Angelo
American Kestrel that cannot be released back into the wild due to effects of injuries
Barred Owl that cannot be released back into the wild due to effects of injuries
History of Burnaby Watersheds & Streamkeeping
My presentation at the Metrotown Burnaby Public Library this evening on the history of Burnaby watersheds and what streamkeepers do. Fourteen people, not bad. . . Yumi took the photos.
The BPL poster for the event. Thanks for inviting me!
Poor BC Forestry Practices Damage Streams, Communities
These Google Earth images are of the approximate area in BC (near Logan Lake) that I saw in a recent presentation. When you think of the impacts of losing all that forest cover on watersheds and downstream communities. . .
Same area, one shot from 1984 the other 2016.
The presenter was adamant that flooding in interior communities was not mostly due to climate change as some claim, but mostly due to poor forestry practices.
When you take all the trees, there’s no transpiration of precipitation, and nothing to slow down runoff.
Yes we need forestry jobs, but this does not appear to be a good way to save either the environment or the economy.
SEHAB Meetings on Fishy Issues in Kamloops, BC
I’ve been an alternate and full board member of the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans for some nine years now.
We meet three times year, and board members collect and share information from stewardship groups from across British Columbia. We have expert speakers in, and tour local habitat restoration sites, dams, fish ladders, etc.
We distill all that information, positive and negative, and report to senior DFO management at Pacific Regional HQ.
Here are a few shots from our latest meeting in Kamloops, BC:
Meatless Casserole Will Disappear Quickly
Casserole with three colours of peppers, mushrooms, and Gardein meatless ground. It’s gonna disappear just as fast as one with hamburger in it!
This from a guy who grew up in the day when the family would literally order half a cow processed into steaks, roasts, and ground beef for the chest freezer every year. . .
Wising Up on Not Needing Daily Shampoo
A friend of mine posted on FB that she was trying a no-shampoo routine to save on plastics and chemicals. She’s going days just rinsing her hair with warm water, and if necessary, a touch of bar soap.
So I thought I’d give it a try. Still showering using my summer water-saving routine — 20 second wet down, turn off water, soap pits ‘n bits ‘n feet, and 20-30 second rinse. No shampoo just quickly massaging hair with warm water during the wet and rinse.
I’m on day five or six now, and to my surprise, I feel fine. I thought my hair and scalp would be itchy and flaky by now, but aside from my (short) hair feeling heavier and oilier, no problem.
It certainly appears that shampooing once, or perhaps twice a week, would work for me, and I’d be reducing plastics use, reducing chemicals down the drain, and saving $$.
This from a guy who has been shampooing daily (except when camping or hiking) for 50 years. . .
UPDATE (minutes later): Just timed myself and the rinse cycle takes more like 40-45 seconds : – ).
UPDATE 2: Another friend says she shampoos twice a month.
Time to Build an Ark?
So I thought I’d go photo hunting for birds and insects down at the Fraser Foreshore Park ponds in south Burnaby just west of Byrne Creek.
This is the first pond west of the outfall of Byrne Creek into the Fraser. Ran into this dyke construction. Thought I’d better go home and start building an Ark. . .
More info in this Burnaby Now story.
Presenting on Burnaby Watersheds and Streamkeeper Activities, Sept. 19
I’ll be doing a presentation on the history and development of Burnaby watersheds, and talking about what volunteer streamkeepers do, at the Metrotown Public Library branch in #Burnaby, BC, on Sept. 19 at 7:00pm.
You can register at the link below: