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: Society
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
Lucille Johnstone Workboat Parade at RiverFest in New Westminster
Lucille Johnstone Workboat Parade at RiverFest on the New Westminster waterfront today. Always a blast.
I admit as an environmentalist I wonder at all the fuel burned for fun, but the Fraser is a working river, and all these folks from tugs to SAR earn a well-deserved day of fun.
Their skill and professionalism are astounding.
Rivers Day founder Mark Angelo
New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote
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.
Burnaby Mountain Sunset
There were a lot of people on Burnaby Mountain tonight. Long weekend? Hoping to see the Northern Lights? That didn’t pan out, but it was a lovely sunset.
This is a series of shots taken of downtown Vancouver from the mountain, with deliberate variations in focus. . .
Playground of the Gods at night
Having a Blast at Nikkei Matsuri Summer Festival
Yumi and I spent a few hours at the Nikkei Matsuri summer festival at Nikkei Place, just a few minutes walk up the hill from our place in south Burnaby, BC.
Yumi’s outfit
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.
Maiden in North Vancouver
Oh my gosh, so cool! We ran across Maiden on our visit to Vancouver’s north shore today.
All woman-crewed around-the-world sailing race competitor in 1990. I had not been aware of this!
They faced so many doubters and obstacles, and prevailed. And now she continues as a beacon for educating disadvantaged girls around the world.
Inspiring.
Wonderful to see a flotilla of First Nations canoes welcoming, honoring, and visiting. I hope I’m not intruding when I say FNs in general, and FN women in particular, deserve such support and recognition.
