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View ArticleIt's All About Food
It keeps coming back to me in so many ways. The way to bring our group together, and to transform our city, is through food. It's not just about peak oil and the rising cost of food. It's not just...
View ArticleTransition Fredericton on Facebook
Google's Ning Network is going 'pay only' July 1, so we're letting our Ning TF site shut down. Please find all information about Transition Fredericton at our Facebook page. Thanks.
View ArticleUrb Pharm is Evolving
Urb Pharm started from an ecological concern with developing local resources: food, transportation, energy and green urban environments. But, as often happens in life, my real work went in a very...
View ArticleHow to turn a Mess into a Masterpiece
I'm going to strip down my Orbea, which never worked as a road bike, and turn it into a single speed. At least it will work good leaning against the wall of a café. Then I'm going to take all those...
View ArticleLAUNCHED! St. George Creative Arts
The project I am currently working on is making St. George, NB a centre of local innovation and creative expression on the southwestern shore. VOILA! St. George Creative Arts Association, NBNext ideas...
View ArticleTransition Towns and Climate Camp come together in Heathrow
Heathrow was the site of the first big Climate Camp protest in England, which stopped the expansion of the Heathrow airport. But there is also Heathrow, the village, and the locals who live there have...
View ArticleEcoJustice People's Summit-Detroit 2010
“We support the conclusion that only by “living well,” in harmony with each other and with Mother Earth, rather than “living better,” based on an economic system of unlimited growth, dominance and...
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Hippies in St. George: A Photo Essay
For my birthday on May 22, I attended the annual Hippy Clambake in St. George. It's put on by Harry and Martha Bryan, a couple of generous ex-pat hippies who left the US during the Viet Nam War 40...
View ArticleDownsized Detroit Becomes Beacon of Urban Farming
One-third of Detroit's land area has been depopulated, leaving "abandoned houses, vacant lots and vacant factories," according to a story in the Guardian UK. Swaths of razed house lots are being taken...
View ArticleMarysville Resilience Initiative
I wanted to start a local food program in Marysville because I thought there was no local food here. Boy was I wrong. There’s a whole lot of local food up here in Marysville. We have Joseph’s Urban...
View ArticleUrb Pharm Hosts Transition Times Radio
Rather than start a whole new blog that I have to manage on top of three others (Urb Pharm, EcoSoc and Alice in Canada), I'm going to post info about my radio show, Transition Times, on this blog....
View ArticleTransition Times Hits the Air waves!
I almost can't believe it, but the first Transition Times radio show finally hit the air on Friday, July 30 at 3 PM on CHSR. 97.9 Fredericton, NB. It was Hazel Richardson's show, and it was a stunner....
View ArticleNew Brunswick: the Vermont of Canada?
In this blog, I have alternately praised and whined about life in the Province of New Brunswick. New Brunswick has a distressingly high rate of illiteracy (almost 60%) and too few adults who complete...
View ArticleOne Block Away. . .
Tuesday evening I got home around 6 PM to cook dinner. I grabbed a shopping bag and opened the front door of my Marysville townhouse and crossed over to Downing Street. I walked one block and arrived...
View ArticleUrban Agtivist
You gotta love this stuff. The new word is that urban agriculture is spreading to major cities across the US (and Canada too). The leaders of this movement call themselves the New Agtivists. Now this,...
View ArticleQueering the City
I haven't been posting much here (when did I ever) and I probably won't until we start planning and digging the community garden at the Cotton Mill/Provincial building in Marysville.But meanwhile,...
View ArticleCarleton Street: A Good and Beautiful Bridge
Last February I attended the Fredericton Social Innovation Forum. One of the afternoon sessions was a proposal by a local architect, Ian Robertson, to rebuild the Carleton Street Bridge in downtown...
View ArticleSacrilege: Selling Our Provincial Parks
As usual, while we're trying to put the good things back up, like the Carleton St. Bridge, Mayor Brad Woodside and Premier David Alward want to tear down and trash more green space by selling it to...
View ArticleA Reasonably Good Facsimile of a Future with Less Carbon
Bill McKibben suggested in Deep Economy that America could cut its carbon emissions in half, not by going back to primitive village life and donning hair shirts, but by becoming more like Europe, which...
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