Tag: Vancouver - Page 4
-
Events: EPIC Sustainable Living Expo, This Weekend in Vancouver
TreeHuggers in Vancouver, mark your calendars: this weekend is EPIC: The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo (you may recall that we covered it last year as well). Vancouver's largest green consumer show and eco-marketplace starts Friday April 18 and
-
Vancouver's Used Street Banners Transform to Shopping Bags
Each year, the Commercial Drive Business Society in Vancouver hopes to draw shoppers to their destination by printing 256 32"x60" nylon street banners. The marketing tactic has proven to be a success, however, the Society has realized the huge
-
Century: Chandelier Lighting from Propellor Design
Vancouver-based Propellor Design has impressed in the past us with their groovy pendant lighting, and they turned a few heads at last week's Toronto Interior Design Show with the Century Chandelier. Made with panels of art glass or eco-resin, we like
-
Smart Condo by Peter Busby
The standard Vancouver condo is a tall building with a small floorplate on a big podium. It has worked, but perhaps does not fit everywhere. Like in one of the more, um, shall we say "challenged" parts of town that has a great collection of older,
-
A Useful and Agreeable Prefab
Those frequent fliers at travel site/mag/tv whatever Useful + Agreeable must be settling down, because they have commissioned a prefab (or is it?) from Neil Denari, who says "the u+a pre-designed mini hi-rise is not only a tightly designed house that
-
Dear China: Engaging the Country in a Greener Future
Created by Ci (that's Conscientious Innovation, a sustainability marketing group in Vancouver, BC), DearChina.org is a virtual sounding board for a green future in China. As the site self-describes itself, "DearChina.org is about engagement. It's about
-
The Fife Diet: Will the Wee Bairns Still Ask For McDonalds?
271 km² is just a little over 100 square miles. It is also the area of Scotland's third largest local authority, Fife. Which makes it a prime candidate for a Scottish version of the now famous 100 Mile Diet from Vancouver.
-
One Small Step for the NHLPA
The Globe and Mail reported on news this week from (one of our heroes) David Suzuki and his new partnership with the NHLPA to oftset the players carbon emissions created from their extensive travel by planes, trains, and automobiles - well, actually
-
Remainder House by Openspace Architecture
Don Gurney of Openspace Architecture found a warehouse that was being demolished, and bought a pile of Douglas fir to build this house in the woods. Being a modest home of 610 SF on the main floor and 300 more in the loft, it didn't take a lot to build
-
Two Powerful Electric Bikes By OHM
Straight out of British Columbia comes a couple of new electric bikes by OHM Cycles. The highlights of these bikes include 38V lithium-ion batteries, regenerative braking and powerful BionX motors. The company offers two styles of electric bike: one
-
Canadian Youth Tackle Urban Climate Change
The Environmental Youth Alliance has just announced the launch of Winds of Change, a project to raise the awareness of how urban parks and green spaces can mitigate the effects of climate change, especially in cities.
-
Fall Fashion 07: Twice Shy
We asked Jen McCormack, co-founder and creative director of Vancouver-based Twice Shy, to share some of her favorite picks from the organic apparel company's fall line.
-
More from Molo: Paper Softlight
The Vancouver-based designers at Molo are at it again. After rocking our world earlier this year, they've returned to the "soft" aesthetic that brought the world softwall and softseating to add some lighting to the mix. "softlight" follows a similar
-
Propellor Design's Pendant Lighting: No Spinning Blades Necessary
Though they don't create anything that keeps itself aloft with a spinning blade, the work of Propellor Design does seem to float, effortlessly, through space. We're especially fond of their pendants (that's "Galiano" above), but the Vancouver, BC-based
-
Outstanding in the Field In The Local Food Era
Two years ago Erin wrote about Outstanding in the Field- "is a restaurant on wheels, touring the country to discover and highlight awesome regional cuisines. Jim Denevan, founder of Outstanding in the Field, says the group's mission is to raise
-
Recipe of the Week: Coconut Curried Vegetables
Vikram Vij is the chef of Vij's, one of the star restaurants in Vancouver. In the Globe and Mail this week, Mr. Vij extols the virtues of shopping at your local farmer's market and then going home and cooking the family dinner together. I happen to
-
Wretched Excess Dept: Coffee at $15 Per Cup
In Vancouver, a good cup of coffee costs fifteen bucks. "It reminds me of a fine glass of cognac," said customer Borislav Trifonov, as he sat sipping the pricey dark brew at Caffe Artigiano in downtown Vancouver
-
Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Buses Planned for 2010 Olympics
Following initial reports a few years back that Vancouver was planning on investing in a fleet of hydrogen-powered transit buses for the 2010 Olympics, we now have confirmation that the city of Whistler will become host to the world's largest fleet of
