Jan 25 | Celebrating Winter in UBC Botanical Garden
December 25, 2009
Finding beauty in biodiversity is easy when plants are in full floral display — but what about the humdrum winter months?
Join Daniel for a wintertime exploration and celebration of biodiversity in UBC Botanical Garden.
Contact: email botg@interchange.ubc.ca, or visit the website
Cost $5.00 Please bring a bag lunch. Coffee and tea supplied. Fee collected at the door.
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Date: Jan 25, 2010
Location: UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre, near the main entrance
6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Jan 11 | Resolutions for Biodiversity
December 25, 2009
2010 is the United Nations’ International Year of Biodiversity.
This lecture will provide an overview of biodiversity statistics, threats to biodiversity and what you can do to help as an introduction to 2010’s themed lectures on biodiversity at UBC Botanical Garden.
Cost $5.00 Please bring a bag lunch. Coffee and tea supplied. Fee collected at the door.
Contact: email botg@interchange.ubc.ca, or visit the website
Date: Jan 11, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Location: UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre, near the main entrance
Jan 22 | Downtown Vancouver Lunarfest
December 25, 2009
Join us for the unveiling of the 2010 Taiwan Vancouver Cultural exchange lanterns as part of the Lunarfest that runs from Jan 22 until Feb 28.
The second Annual LunarFest 2010 is destined to be an amazing, surprising and playful blend of arts, culture and Lunar New Year wonderment! Be sure to bring your lanterns or join our public lantern-making workshops to join in the processions!
Contact: Pamela McKeown 604-879-8611
Date: Friday Jan 22, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Granville Pedestrian Corridor (between Georgia & Robson)
Jan 19 | Grandview Park Upgrade Open House
December 25, 2009
Conceptual designs for the Grandview Park upgrade have been developed with the feedback received from two open houses last year.
The concepts will be on display at the next open house, January 19th, to assist further discussion on park improvements.
Park improvements are tentatively scheduled to begin July 2010.
Contact: David Yurkovich 604-257-6932
Location: Britannia Community Centre, In the Learning Resources Centre, under the Library
Date: Tuesday Jan 19, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Jan 14 | Fraserview Park Improvements Open House
December 25, 2009
Fraserview Park is scheduled for an upgrade in 2010.
We would like to meet with reidents of the neighbourhood and other interested members of the community to discuss improvements and hear ideas for the park. Please join us.
Contact: Debra Barnes 604-718-5852
Date: Thursday Jan 14, 2010
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Fraserview Boys and Girls Club
Jan 13 | Norquay Park Playground Open House
December 25, 2009
The public is invited to attend an open house to review proposed plans for the redevelopment of the northern portion of Norquay Park, bounded by Kingsway, Wales Street and Rhodes Street.
Proposed improvements consist of a water spray park, playground, sports court, tai chi area, as well as pedestrian paths, plantings and benches.
Construction is planned for the summer and fall of 2010.
Contact: Steve Wong 604-7-257-8402
Date: Wednesday Jan 13, 2010
Time: 5:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Killarney Community Centre
Dec 27 – Jan 2 | 12th Annual Bright Nights In Stanley Park
December 25, 2009
The Vancouver Park Board and British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund invite everyone to nights of magic and illumination for the twelfth annual Bright Nights in Stanley Park.
Get in the spirit of the Holidays – take a train ride through our forest transformed with two million twinkling lights, see the animated displays and listen to holiday sounds as you enjoy hot chocolate, fresh popcorn and roasted chestnuts.
Time: 3:00 to 10:00 pm
Location: Stanley Park Farmyard
Holiday Trash
December 17, 2009
It’s true.
We generate a huge amount of trash during the holidays, all in the name of giving.
Metro Vancouver is encouraging us to cut down on our holiday trash.
Here are some suggestions:
- Give great gifts, but don’t buy garbage. When trying to decide between two gifts, choose the one with the least amount of packaging.
- Give the gift of time. Offer your services or expertise as a present. Make dinner, knit a sweater or plan a special day out.
- Give an experience. Dinner, tickets to the movies or a hockey game, or passes to the local skating rink.
- Give a gift that lasts. Pass on a family heirloom or start your own tradition.
- Give a group gift. Pool resources with a few people to give a high quality gift.
- Give a gift wrapped in newspaper. Reuse a ribbon to fancy it up.
- Give your garbage can a break! Visit www.metrovancouverrecycles.org for a comprehensive list of things that can be donated, reused or recycle.
If you’ve got some holiday waste tips, you can share them with others on the Metro Vancouver website. Here are some waste tips already submitted.
Here’s the video they did to get the point across:
LoCo BC Event – Trash Talk
December 5, 2009
Innovative Approaches to Garbage and Recycling for Business – December 8th, 5:30-7:30pm
There’s been a lot of talk of waste management and zero waste in the region, as Metro Vancouver updates the Solid Waste Plan that guides how the region deals with its garbage. Although we have one of the highest diversion rates in the country – diverting 55% of the garbage we produce to recycling or composting – this is a far cry from the target of 70% by 2015 and 100% (Zero Waste) eventually…
Small and mid-sized businesses (SMEs) contribute significantly to the region’s overall trash burden, and yet waste diversion systems and services are not typically well-suited to the needs and realities of smaller businesses. SME businesses need to get creative and collaborate to reduce waste and the greenhouse gas emissions from waste decomposition. This event will focus on how businesses can collaborate to work towards the 5 R’s waste hierarchy of reduce, reuse, recycle, recover and manage residuals.
Join Us!
This event will introduce you to innovative ways to reduce, exchange and divert your business’ waste. A short panel will be followed by dialogue on how small businesses can collaborate to reduce waste and how LoCo can support them.
Louise Schwarz of Recycling Alternative (RA), will share the results of RA’s Zero Waste Pilot. The pilot has worked with a hotel, a restaurant and an office building since May 2009 to divert 100% of waste from our region’s landfills. RA has offered businesses the systems and training to divert recyclables, compostables and electronics from their waste streams. Come and hear the learning from this exciting project by RA, a leader in the waste management industry and in green business practices.
Toby Barrazzuol, Eclipse Awards and Chair of the Strathcona Business Improvement Association’s (SBIA) Sustainability Committee, presents the work of the SBIA’s Materials Exchange Network. The Network connects SBIA businesses to reuse materials, reduce waste, reduce costs, and recycle materials. Come and hear about their early successes and plans for expansion.
Appetizers will be provided. Cash bar.
Loco BC’s hosting this event on December 8th, at the Granville Room, 957 Granville Street.
5:30 to 7:30 pm
You must register – and their last even sold out, so do it soon !
Register here
Jan 11 – 14 | Songweavers Studio Hip Hop Week
December 5, 2009
KAYA and Songweavers Studio engage youth, families, teachers, community members and support workers to build bridges by breaking down the stereotypes around Hip Hop and connecting the generation gaps using popular forms of music, culture and lifestyle.
This year we will be hosting a free, week-long after-school event.
The event highlights the contributions of 90 First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists featured at the 2010 Aboriginal Pavilion.
Location: Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association, 1771 East Hastings St
Contact: Tiffany Moses/Nikky Ermineskin 604-254-5513
