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Do you have a local farmers market near you that you love?

My ChangeEverything challenge for you this week:

Share a reason why you love farmers markets so that people who do not yet frequent them, might be inspired to check one or two out.

we have our own local crow geniuses! Do you have a smart crow story?

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Expansion of local farmers markets? Being debated at City Hall TONIGHT!

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Denise Savoie talks about how story stands out in the parliamentary debates.

This one is for my parents. When I was a tiny tot my parents had a book on their shelf called "Gods, Graves and Scholars" and it was about major archaeological discoveries. The first part of the book was about the volcano Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. I was too young to read so my mother described to me what happened.

A report will be debated by City Council on July 20, 2010 that would make it easier to operate farmers markets and thereby allow more local farmers and producers to sell in Vancouver.

Have you heard of open media? What do you think?

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Incinerators or Zero Waste? Do you feel like saying anything about it? 

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Metro Van is deciding - JULY 14 -- Incinerators or Zero Waste?
Synopsis of issue. Metro Van (and corporate interests) have looking into solving our over-abundance of waste problems with large incinerators. Their argument is to generate energy from burning garbage. The City of Vancouver (CoV) has been fighting the proposal and with good reason.

Ian Soutar of UVic talks about successful placement of fourth year engineering students into industrial engineer projects

Patrick Hayes software designer talks about how and why Open Source software sales are outpacing proprietary sales.

The main thing I want to work on is not taking things too personally and getting mad at dumb stuff. For example, my friend would make a joke if I pronounced a word wrong or if I didn't know something that was assumed to be "obvious". I would immediately get defensive over this, as if I was challenging my own intelligence.