Want to learn how to build your own house with human-power!?
Want to build with cheap, reusable, natural materials that are earthquake proof, fire proof, pest proof, and proven to last for centuries?
Cob is the term for an earthen building technique that mixes sand, clay and straw and is sculpted on a wall. No forms [...]
Filed under: Cycling, Sustainability, global warming, neighbourhood | Tagged: cob, earthen building, workshop | 4 Comments »
Imagine yourself trying to catch a bus to work, to an appointment or to school. You can see the bus a block away. You run toward the intersection but you can’t cross safely. You have to wait for 3 different lights to change. By the time you get [...]
Filed under: Bus, TransLink, Transportation, Vancouver, Walking, neighbourhood | 1 Comment »
Vancouver’s “Finest” have done the unthinking again.
On a bright, Thursday evening, Constable Chalmers was driving around the Eastside looking for trouble with his trusty computer-toting sidekick, when suddenly it appeared to appear in the guise of a masked man gingerly walking across Victoria Drive right behind their unmarked, pollution-spewing vehicle.
Wasting no [...]
Filed under: Vancouver, Walking, bad cops, neighbourhood, police brutality, terrorism | 2 Comments »
