My BIV article:
In Vancouver, the local food phenomenon has hit the big time – and a wall.
“There’s a huge awakening around local food,” said Karen Morton, founder of EcoUrbia, an urban farmers advocacy organization. “People wanting it, people knowing about it; and it’s just really been in the last three years the phenomenon has started happening.”
Read the rest of the article in Business in Vancouver.
For Dick Vollet, the problem of homelessness is one of the most complex problems in society. “The solutions are very clear though,” he said. “We need to build housing. And we need to build it as quickly as we can.”
Vollet, fresh from working on the Van-OC dream team at the Olympics, has been in his new job as CEO of the Streetohome Foundation for just over a year, and has already seen some improvement in the numbers of people who are “street homeless” in the Vancouver area.
Read the rest of the article in Business in Vancouver.
People turned out in high numbers at the Central Public Library Saturday to view options and plans and submit feedback for the future of the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts.
The proposal includes removing the viaduct structures, bringing Georgia Street down to the Pacific Street level, construction of a large amount of park space, and restoring Main Street housing, shops and services to the area east of Quebec Street.
This region just north of the waterfront at Northeast False Creek sits in the shadow of an aborted freeway project, which ended after strenuous public opposition in the 1970s. The construction of the elevated streets, which connects the downtown to the east side of the city, obliterated parts of Chinatown and a multi-ethnic, predominantly black neighbourhood known as Hogan’s Alley. (See my post on the Jimmy Hendrix Shrine.)
