The Periodic Table of Elements go to the Disco
Hands down, my favourite high-school science class video. Since when do elements go to the Disco, and Florine is a Cinderella? I’ve cut out the ‘learning’ part in the video clips below because it’s quite dry – the fun part is in the Element Settlement! The first [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 30, 2009
The Element Settlement
January 28, 2009
Save BC Coast – One Loonie At a Time
In typical Emily fashion – I’ve found a(nother) passion! I’ve always been a fan of BC’s beautiful coast line – kayaking in the Broken Island Group and studying the tide-pools around Bamfield. Coastal northern BC, especially Haida Gwaii, is on the top of my to-go list.
In the fall I went to a presentation about the [...]
January 25, 2009
Best Cycling Route Planner in Vancouver
This is a hidden gem! UBC and Translink have developed this cycling route map that provides shortest route, lowest slope route, most vegetated route, and lowest traffic pollution routes. They also include handy facts like distance, time (based on your speed), how much GHG emissions you’ve prevented, calories burned, and average NO2 levels along the [...]
January 25, 2009
My Water Footprint
I just went to Waterfootprint.org to measure my water footrprint. At first I did the “quickie” calculator – my results were 2095 cubic meter per year – but I wasn’t satisfied because the only questions it asked were: what country to you live in? Are you male or female? What is your annual income? How [...]
January 25, 2009
Water Wars
Just got back from the Vancouver International Film Fest – intense.
My reaction….
Trailer for Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Trailer for For the Love of Water (F.L.O.W.)
Resources:
The documentary and good links – Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Find your watershed here … more on this [...]
January 25, 2009
Vancouver Urban Gardens Sprouting
Community gardens are uber popular in Vancouver, and the number of developer-started gardens is on the rise. Land developers, like Onni, are taking their idle land and turning it into temporary community garden space. The gardeners have to move on as soon as the development company is ready to start building, but until then AT [...]
January 25, 2009
PodMob for Sustainable Sushi all Rolled-Up
We can change business as usual.
We buy things everyday. Businesses will do anything for money. Businesses will do anything for our money… so why don’t we use that power? To use our purchasing power requires organization, and until the Carrotmob came around, groups hadn’t seen ‘our money’ organized on a grassroots level successfully. We took [...]
January 25, 2009
Ocean Wise Fish
A Vancouver Aquarium Conservation Program
Navigating Sustainable Seafood
Ocean Wise. Seafood Watch. Sea Choice. It’s a confusing world of consumer guides and restaurant programs out there! Here are the basic differences:
Ocean Wise – initiative out of the Vancouver Aquarium that promotes adoption of sustainable seafood in restaurants.
Seafood Watch – consumer guide out of the Monterey Bay Aquarium [...]
January 25, 2009
The Green Table Network
Vancouver based organization that helps restaurants “go green”
I’m really excited that the Green Table Network (GTN) has donated a one-year membership to Sushi Bento Express for winning the PodMob. The membership will provide the folks at Sushi Bento Express with tools and guidelines for greening their restaurant that are based on local and international standards, [...]
January 25, 2009
Podmob on CBC Radio – BC Almanac
Click here for the link to my recent interview on CBC’s BC Almanac.
Mike, from the Ocean Wise program at the Vancouver Aquarium, was interviewed after me and he even took questions about “sustainable sushi.” The full show can be found here.
Blue Fin Tuna – Photo from artsjournal.com
Originally posted at 3rdWhale.com
