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This is unedited raw footage of a walking tour given to The Global ARC (July 15, 2010) by Mark Bomford of the UBC Farm in Vancouver, BC. Mark Bomford works for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC, where he manages the UBC Farm and the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. The UBC Farm is considered to be the last working farm in the City of Vancouver. The farm includes 24 ha of mixed field and forest area on UBC's Point Grey campus and…
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Strathcona Community Garden, Global ARC interview (July 15, 2010) with Sharif Senbel, architect of the Garden's Eco-Pavilion. Since 1987, Strathcona Community Gardens has been cultivating 2.83 hectares of urban land to provide food for local residents and to educate the public. As a purely volunteer-driven community-based initiative, the intention of the garden is to promote sustainability and urban agriculture while providing local residents with…
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Strathcona Community Garden, Eco-Pavilion Interview with Maged Senbel, PhD, MCIP, LEED AP, Assistant Professor of Urban Design School of Community and Regional Planning College for Interdisciplinary Studies University of British Columbia The Eco-Pavilion, located in Strathcona Community Garden, has the distinction of being the first public building in Vancouver to be granted a permit for the use of environmentally sustainable energy and…
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Approximately 150 participants in the Political Equator 3 event came together to directly experience places along the U.S.-Mexico border where natural and social dynamics collide. The site visits included: (a) NGO Casa Familiar in the San Ysidro neighborhood on the US side, (b) The Tijuana River Estuary on the US side and (c) NGO Alter Terra in Los Laureles Canyon, an informal settlement in Mexico. Many of the participants crossed the border by foot…
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