March 11, 2008 (Vancouver) – Gordon Campbell is a biohazard to British Columbia for his continual refusal to label genetically engineered products, says Greenpeace, which today organized the province’s first annual GE Free Day

Bring your Valentine(s) to the Seventh Annual Chicken and Egg Family Dance and Fund Raiser!

Saturday, February 9, 2008 from 6:00-11:00 pm at the Subhud Centre/Capri Hall
(3925 Fraser St. at King Edward) in Vancouver.

This year's funds are dedicated to establishing a
B. C. Community Organics program
and supporting the Terra Nova Schoolyard Project.

Half a dozen more reasons to circle your calendar and get your tickets now:

Chefs to the Field, a free event which runs from 11am-4pm on August 19th, will include live entertainment, children’s activities, a silent auction, food samples from some of Vancouver’s top restaurants and culinary institutions ($3 each), and a chefs’ competition.

New research shows that putting organic produce in storage with low levels of oxygen can extend its shelf life.

Evergreen's 7th Annual Earth Day Celebration

Saturday, April 21, 2007, 11am to 5pm
Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, B.C.

Make Earth Day matter!
Join the global party for the planet by taking part in this year’s Earth Day Vancouver Celebration...

In case you have not heard, in 2003 national consultations began to create Canadian Organic regulations.

On December 22nd 2006, the Minister of Agriculture and Agr-Food Chuck Strahl announced the final publication of the Canadian Organic Products Regulations had taken place. These regulations will help protect consumers against false organic claims and will also govern the use of the new Canada Organic logo.

Bring your Valentine(s) to the Sixth Annual Chicken and Egg Dance!

February 10, 2007 from 6:00-11:00 pm at the Subhud Centre/Capri Hall (3925 Fraser St. at King Edward) in Vancouver.

This year's funds are dedicated to preserving organic farmland.

Half a dozen more reasons to circle your calendar and get your tickets now:

The organic revolution is definite underway.

Seven years ago I used to commute by bus for sometimes ups to four hours with my eldest son to seek out stores who sold certified organic food.

Written by David Hennessey, copyright 2006

The nutrients in certified organic fruits and vegetables are easier for your body to digest and assimilate since they are free of man made chemical pesticides that may disturb and complicate the workings of your body.

How to Buy Organic Food Inexpensively
New book shows you how
by David Hennessey

Author’s Family on welfare able to afford organic food
Many consumers are seeking better food choices including the choice to buy and eat organic foods. However, there is a common perception that organic food is only for the financially wealthy. Yet with the tips in this book the author’s family while on welfare were able to eat organic food for five months till they succeeded in getting back into the workforce. They have continued eating 95% plus certified organic for seven years now and doing so on a tight budget.

According to an article just published on The Tyee by Vanessa Richmond, it seems that..."jeans are a habit we need to kick. Dov Charney, the man behind American Apparel, calls cotton 'the nicotine of clothing.' And jeans, it seems, are double-strength menthols. No 'light' in sight."

Read the whole article:
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2006/09/18/GreenJeans/

According to the latest global data on organic farming, more than 31 million hectares of farmland are under organic management worldwide, a gain of around five million hectares in a single year. A major increase of organic land has taken place in China, where nearly three million hectares of pastoral land were recently certified, according to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).

An initiative by Guy Dauncey, the publisher of the excellent EcoNews newsletter and the person who started the BC Sustainable Energy Association. Please support him.

Dear Friends and EcoNews Readers,
Among my various activities, I am involved in launching a new national non-profit society, called Prevent Cancer Now.

We are building a Canada-wide movement that will do whatever it takes to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer.

This has gone on long enough. We need to get the toxins and pollutants out of our lives and out of nature, once and for all. Sweden has set a goal to eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020. We can and must do the same here in Canada. We are also organizing a major national conference for cancer prevention in May 2007. Our website is www.preventcancernow.ca

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The Richmond based Nature's Path company started a podcast with information about nutrition, health, organics and lifestyle choices.

The podcast is called "Optimum LifeStreams" and it is located at:
http://www.naturespath.com/podcast

You can listen to the episodes right on the site, download them or subscribe to the RSS feed and have them delivered to you as soon as they are published.

The last episode, the fourth, was published today and it is called "Organic Food: How and Why to Make the Shift".

The April issue of the EcoNews newsletter starts with an article about organic food and cancer. Natural compounds called salvestrols, found only in organic fruits and vegetables, apparently helped about 50% of the people who took the supplement.This is still work in progress, but looks very promising.

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The 2nd annual Organic Islands Festival, July 8 and 9, 2006

BC's largest and most successful organic lifestyle fair

Discover BC's Organic Community - The People - The Products - The Passion

Keynote Presenation: Saturday, July 8 at 2 pm
Can organic food protect us against cancer?
by Guy Dauncey, Victoria author, President of BC Sustainable Energy Association and co-chair of Prevent Cancer Now.

According to the latest global data on organic farming, more than 31 million hectares of farmland are under organic management worldwide, a gain of around five million hectares in a single year.

By Rob Wallbridge

Terrorist ducks and free-range sleeper cells? It’s an odd idea to imagine, yet this appears to be the way some governments are viewing wild birds and outdoor flocks of poultry in the wave of paranoia surrounding the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. In early November, the government of Quebec imposed strict new regulations governing poultry farming in the province. Chief among them was the requirement that all poultry be kept locked indoors, sealed away from any type of potential contact with wild birds. The intention is to protect the province’s poultry industry and its export markets from the threat of avian flu. But is this response the right one?

Bring your Valentine(s) to the fifth annual Chicken and Egg Dance
February 11, 2006 from 6:00-11:00 pm at the Capri Hall (3925 Fraser St. at King Edward) Vancouver.

Show your local organic farmers how much you love them and the food they grow for you!

Half a dozen reasons to come:
1. dance your gumboots off to the Sybaritic String Band
2. enjoy lots of family fun.
3. get great stuff at the silent auction.
4. savour fabulous local food at affordable prices
5. support the rights of certified organic and small farmers to farm with care of people, animals and the earth as their priority.
6. help Organic Friends of the Future raise funds to support alternatives to factory farming.

I have always been passionate about food. I was raised in England by a mother who was passionate about food. Buying, preparing and eating food in our house was a sacred ritual. Family meals were taken together. There was a pattern to the foods prepared each week, traditional English fare combined with a wonderful variety of European foods.

On Sunday, October 2nd, 2005, you can get to Apple Heaven while still on earth!
Become a Salt Spring Island Apple Connoisseur for a day.
Get to explore our incredible island, the Organic Gardening Capital of Canada.

We grow over 350 varieties of apples here, with an apple history back to 1860.

To all small growers in BC

Presently the BC Ag. is conducting a "Specialty Review" for small growers not growing under the "quota" system. This has come about because of many years of labour and insistence from so many good folk involved in Organic growing in BC. The review was also timely because of the so-called issues of Food Safety and Biosecurity surrounding the handling and production of food in BC and across Canada.

Vancouver Permaculture Network presents:

The Lecture: « Permaculture Strategies in a World of Declining Fossil Fuel »

on Saturday, September 10, 2005, 3 PM to 6 PM

David Holmgren, Australian permaculture designer and consultant. Co-originator of the permaculture concept with biologist Bill Mollison.