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Sustainable Engineering Designs For Life
- Author: Mike Thomas
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- Tags: environment Engineering sustainability sustainable living urban planning civil engineering
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Kootenay Grain CSA 2009
The Kootenay Grain Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Project is one of the greatest Kootenay-created initiatives for food and sustainability. This year’s harvest was great for some crops and around 50% of expected for Kamut and Spelt. We ...
The Youth and the Future
On Saturday night I curled, that’s a who ‘nother story that I might share some time, how an Aussie ends up in a competition to through a 44 pound hunk of granite down a bumpy sheet of ice at a bulls-eye painted on the ice. But while I was...
Weekend Poll
This post was written by Mike Thomas for UrbanWorkbench.com © 2009.Originally posted as Weekend Poll Tweet This!Share this on del.icio.usShare this on FacebookDigg this!Subscribe to the comments for this post?Stumble upon something good? Share it ...
Peak Oil Decision Making
“Every decision made in any level of government should aim to reduce the use of fossil fuels and energy in general, rather than increase them”. Would it even be possible to implement and follow a policy such as this? It seems that whatev...
Variables and Risk
Image by Sucker Punch ! via Flickr Identify the variables that pose the greatest risk of failure for the project and develop contingency plans for them. Sometimes the best option is to remove the variable altogether, (make it an external issue...
The Education of an Urban Farmer
Image via Wikipedia As far as urban farming goes, we’ve got it pretty easy – A large suburban lot, clean soil. Sure, we’ve got our challenges – City Bylaws that prohibit chickens or goats or pretty much anything other t...
