"Greening Your Condo"

Station Place, 1255 Main Street, Vancouver

How will Metro Vancouver handle its waste as the landfill we currently use is nearly full? Incineration is the favoured solution, but that could impair air quality and increase greenhouse gas emissions. We will examine consumption and waste in the context of this critical decision and look at ways that families can reduce their waste. The focus will be on reducing and re-using, food waste solutions and recycling options for all kinds of consumer products.

Free. May 04. 7:00 pm-8:00 pm

Retrofitting Communities for Sustainability: Sustainability – What Would It Look Like?

Have you ever wondered what our community would look like if we could retrofit it for sustainable living? What if we didn’t treat water as a one-time use commodity, and there was no such thing as “waste”? Are you bursting with creative ideas for a positive future and wonder if others are too?

The Canadian Waste and Recycling Expo is taking place in the
Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre November 28-29th. Click here to register.

Sustainable Building Forum and Eco-Home Tour 2006
Sponsored by the Salt Spring Island Conservancy and the Earth Festival Society

from: http://www.saltspringenergystrategy.org/housing.htm

Someone recently came into the centre and asked about whether or not composting toilets are allowed under zoning regulations in major Canadian cities.

Certainly there is at least one composting toilet that  I know of in the City of Vancouver: the one at Vancouver's Compost Demonstration Garden in lovely shed made from recycled utility poles. This site is at 2150 Maple Street, Vancouver, B.C. and is open to the public as 230 square metres of intensive pesticide-free agriculture in an urban setting. You can go there to see and learn about:
•    outdoor bin and worm composting (workshops for adults and children)
•    cob building techniques
•    rain water collection and storage systems.