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Archive for February, 2008

Spring is nigh

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been fighting against the urge to confess. I started this week mellow, tired, content. Folks appeared out of the ether for Northern Voice, embodied and making music in our living room. Such energy and excitement to be together! It was living in community while it lasted and that is a while when friends [...]

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Absurd agriculture

Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I love the blurb for this CBC podcast on urban agriculture:
12/02/2008: Diet For A Hungry Planet: Urban Agriculture
Growing your own food and raising your own livestock — in a city? It may strike some as absurd, but a growing movement to encourage agriculture in cities says it’s a useful way to improve our relationship with [...]

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Sustainable non-coercion

Posted in Capital "E" education, Consumerism, Family Fun, Healing Arts, In the 'hood, Preservation, Repair, Sustainable arts, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on February 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »

There is rising energy for a democratic, non-coercive, project-based educational model at Garibaldi school. I’m super excited about this. Granted I could get super-excited about a small school version of either French or Mandarin Immersion or a Fine arts program. Of course, Harry can’t see the point of school at all if it’s in English. [...]

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Upcoming for Spring

Posted in Learning Parties, Sustainable Living Arts School Events, tagged , , , , , , , on February 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I got to the garden today. The sun and a blast of warmer air wasn’t the main motivating force oddly enough. I talked to two of my teachers yesterday about some upcoming events we’re planning for spring, a course with Gregoire Lamoureux of the Kootenay Permaculture Institute and a learning party with Dan [...]

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