Projecting Change - Podcast

Find out more about this new and unique film festival in Vancouver.

Projecting Change programming director Lindsay Nahmiache and marketing director Brady Dahmer speaking with VGG’s Robert Ouimet

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Earth Day for Kids

I liked this kid friendly Earth Day list from Kiwi magazine. They have some neat interactive ideas that I hadn’t seen or heard about.
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Thought provoking videos from leading thinkers.

I highly recommended taking some time to check out these videos from TED talks featuring Al Gore and Michael Pollan. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

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Projecting Change Film Festival

Who says you can’t be environmental and entertaining at the same time. Being green can mean having your own film festival. A group called Projecting Change has just announced a new film fest to take place in Vancouver May 8-11th at the Ridge. [Read more]

Water challenge.

Recently Fuji water took some heat for shipping water to North America.

So what does a good company do - respond with a transparent and detailed blog.

Fast Food Integrity?

Convenience without guilt? Good taste on the go? There is a new crop of fast food emerging and here are five things that set establishments apart:

1. Keep it LOCAL - source ingredients close to home
2. Make it GOOD - let the real flavour sing,
3. Make it HEALTHY - it is all about fresh, quality ingredients not necessarily about low fat.
4. Take care of EMPLOYEES - hire staff that are passionate and provide them with good benefits
5. Take care of the ENVIRONMENT - green fast food - from composting and recycling, to converting used trans-fat-free cooking oil to biodiesel to supporting local farmers and ranchers who adhere to sustainable production.

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READ Mary Desmond Pinkowish’s article in Ode Magazine for a detailed look at each of the five points above.

“Well Yes, menus in these new establishments cater to people who want healthier, tastier food - and want it fast - but who may not be keen on tofu burgers. Others want food that’s more authentic than a square hamburger. But other changes in the business, like food delivered in hybrid vehicles and composted waste, are in response to climate change and the imperative to do something about it.”

CHECK OUT Green Table, a Vancouver based organization that Robert has blogged about before and is helping to make Vancouver dining more sustainable

An interesting US example (with a great website) is Chipotle’s.

“Steve Ells, founder and chief executive of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), is not a man on a mission. He’s actually on two of them: one, to run the hottest fast-food chain in the nation (US) ; two, to offer what he terms “food with integrity” to the mass market.” READ the full Business Week article.

My VANCOUVER healthy fast food choices:

• Vera’s Burger Shack
• East is East (not always as fast as you would like)
• Modern Burger (if they would ever open again)

Podcast - JER Envirotech

Unless you work in the industry, it isn’t likely that you think much about thermoplastics.

But thermoplastics are used in hundreds of items in your home, your car, and your workplace. Anything around you that is made from extruded or moulded plastic is a product of the thermoplastics industry.

JER Envirotech is a British Columbia company at the forefront of new technology that’s changing the thermoplastics industry and helping the environment at the same time. [Read more]

A Bushel of Links

Links For Friday April 4th . . .

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Out of the cold.

I constantly debate with my wife about what we should keep in the fridge. I am on the side that less needs to be kept in the fridge. - “Tomatoes lose their flavour in the fridge”, “they don’t keep eggs refrigerated in Australia”.

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Organic Farming is Like Tai Chi

Next week, a new UK web site launches, celebrating organic milk. Love Organic Milk is the latest catch-phrase and publicity push by the The Federation of Organic Milk Groups - the idea is to promote the well being associated with organic milk, and at the same time, drive up sales. [Read more]

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