Sustain Ontario is a province-wide, cross-sectoral alliance that promotes healthy food and farming. The organization is only a year old and was inspired by the UK’s Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming and the Metcalf Foundation’s work on exploring opportunities for collaborative, cross-sectoral work related to food and agriculture .
I will venture a guess and assume that 72% of visitors to this online news magazine knows about K’Naan. Whether you do or not, the 10 minute video below acts as a pretty darn amazing introduction to one of the world’s most important artists. Enjoy!
As a key media outlet for the 2010 Olympics, the Daily Gumboot is excited to bring you our “Olympics Neighbourhoods” series. Here’s how it works: each week, Managing Editor, Kurt Heinrich, and Editor-in-Chief, John will profile a different Vancouver neighbourhood with a specific focus on things that might interest out-of-town visitors who arrive in The [...]
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Matt travel the world and unite communities through a goofy dance. Amazing!
One of the key goals for the modernist project has been an ongoing search for efficiency in all areas of life, but particularly in the home. Layered into the contemporary home are a few hundred years of effort on the part of builders, designers, and corporations trying to smooth out the daily lives of its [...]
I’ve been watching news reports with shock and sadness over the last week but have also been amazed by the extent to which social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have not only enabled family and friends to contact each other but have also been conduits for millions of dollars donated to a devastated Haiti.
I live in Vancouver, British Columbia — home and soon to be host of the 2010 Olympic winter games. And can you believe it — the other day, I suggested we get cable to watch the games.
In a little under four weeks, my city will be turned inside out for the event. Not that we [...]
Community sustainability is something that a lot of municipal governments are working on. Vancouver, Calgary, Whitehorse, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and many others are adopting policies and plans to help them become more sustainable. Note that I’m saying “more sustainable”. That is because community sustainability is a moving target. Deborah Curran’s article “Wicked” in [...]
Yes, that’s right. Just like Starbucks, we’re expanding exponentially. That means more voices and more time for John and I to hit the pavement and promote the Gumboot’s unique offering in the wilderness of the world wide web (isn’t alliteration wonderful). In fact, in the coming weeks watch out for more and more new contributors [...]
What can I say about Christmas and it’s spirit of community that hasn’t already been said? It’s a tough nut to crack, even for a season that provides so many Nutcracker suites. So I thought I’d share with you — our blogger community — a few family traditions that pre-date the gumboot, blogs, even the [...]
