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Less than 0.5 per cent of Canada's ocean area is protected. Our oceans, and their productivity, are a key component to the overall health of the planet, our economy, and ourselves.

ABOUT THE HOUSE:
This house is a true gem, in an unbeatable location. It is 3 bdrm house 1/2 block from Trout Lake, 1 block from Commercial Drive, 4 blocks from Broadway skytrain.

Excess June rain flooded the staple crops for El Lagartillo, a small, organic subsistence farming community in Nicaragua. This campesino community embodies the principles, ideology and lifestyle of Latin America’s people’s revolution: cooperation, community, sharing, conservation, music, hope, laughter, health, peace.

I loved the bike share idea when I first heard about it and I applaud VanCity on their effort. 

I love the bike share idea. Biking is truly the best way to get around Vancouver, especially during the summer. On top of reducing pollution, noise, greenhouse gas emissions it also saves you money, keeps you feeling healthy and self-assured and keeps your life simple and flexible.

Many of you know that bottom trawling is an indiscriminate and destructive fishing method that is akin to clear cutting a forest to harvest fruit.
The UN General Assembly is meeting tomorrow to discuss a ban on bottom trawling on the high seas (outside of any countries' jurisdiction). Because of the dramatic decline in fish stocks worldwide, and because of the destruction of critical habitat from trawling that impede stocks from recovering, most countries are supporting this moratorium. Even George Bush is supporting the ban! But not Canada!
Check out this clever video from Greenpeace about Canada's lack of support
for a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling!

A sample letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Prime Minister is included below