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Eating locally and the '100-Mile Diet'

By Michael Robertson | Image: Michael Robertson | Published: September 02, 2010
Farmers' market are a great source for local produce

Eating locally can save the world but can kill your international cuisine

  One of the things I like about receiving my weekly grocery delivery from Spud! is that I don’t have to lug heavy milk bottles up from the supermarket. The other thing I like is the section on my invoice that tells me how far, on average, my items have travelled, and how much less that is than the average for a supermarket. (What it doesn’t say, but is implied, is how wonderful I am and that I am single-handedly saving the world.)
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An Eat Pray Love Day in Vancouver

By Desiree Daniel | Image: Refuel | Published: September 01, 2010
Have an Eat Pray Love day like Liz and Julia in Vancouver
The buttermilk fried Polderside farm chicken at Refuel is one of the mouth-watering highlights in my Eat Pray Love experience.  

Taking a page out of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, one Vancouver mom takes a day off (the mom equivalent to a year) to seek her own Eat Pray Love experience in the city of glass

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Cafeteria provides ad hoc menu on Vancouver's Main Street

By Michael Robertson | Image: Michael Robertson | Published: September 01, 2010
Cafeteria takes a low key, high quality approach

It arrived on the street as inconspicuously as its name

  In July, Cafeteria very quietly opened its door to Main Street. The restaurant, the latest venture for Chef Andre Durbach (La Buca, Pied-a-terre, L’altra Buca) didn’t want any fanfare; didn’t want to be the slick big brother muscling in on the community friendly restaurants of Mount Pleasant.
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Revitalizing organic massage at Vancouver's Sabai Thai Spa works body naturally

By Victoria Revay | Image: Flickr / Sandra Garcia | Published: August 31, 2010
Organic Thai Massage at Sabai Thai Spa in Vancouver

Sabai Thai Spa’s Coal Harbour location stuns the senses

 
My parents think that people who are deserving of massages on a regular basis are those who either work on a farm daily or operate heavy machinery at bizarre hours in the morning.
 
I’d like to disagree. I carry a heavy laptop (circa 2008) to work every day, go for long runs regularly (finished my first marathon in May) and sit at my desk in a lame posture, sometimes for what seems like days. Doesn’t this qualify me as an appropriate candidate for getting a good rubdown?
 

Sabai Thai Spa

www.thaispa.ca
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Green and cool back to school supplies list

By Diane Selkirk | Image: kidskonserve.com | Published: August 31, 2010
shopping tips for ecofriendly school supplies
The waste-free lunch kit from kidskonserve.com  

Before you shell out for disposable pens, toxic art supplies, or non-recycled paper, be on the lookout for greener options

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Jackie's spicy beans canning tutorial

By Andrea Tucker & Jackie Dives | Image: Jackie Dives | Published: August 31, 2010

Learn to can in 10 steps with this canning tutorial and never go back to buying veggies in tin cans!

  Take advantage of the bounty of harvest time by canning foods so they are available to eat in the winter months. Despite the rumours, canning is not as difficult or time consuming as people make it out to be. It is a fun activity that keeps your mind and body healthy.

Preserves as art

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Natural deodorants that work

By Victoria Revay | Image: Flickr / lori | Published: August 30, 2010
Where to buy natural, organic deodorant in Vancouver

There are plenty of healthy, local options when it comes to choosing an effective deodorant

By now, you might have guessed that I’m a fan of using natural beauty products. I’ve told you about my trials with organic skincare lines, but I haven’t talked about natural deodorants.  
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Public vs. plastic: Drinking fountains in Vancouver

By Serena Calder | Image: Hilary Henegar, Serena Calder | Published: August 30, 2010
Vancouver public water fountains are safe to drink from

Boosting public drinking fountains is one way Vancouver is helping to say “good-bye” to the plastic bottle

  It’s a sunny afternoon and you’re walking along the Seawall when you realize you forgot your reusable water bottle. You’re thirsty, and faced with a choice: either stop at the concession stand up ahead to buy bottled water, or wander around nearby parks in search of a public drinking fountain that may or may not work.
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Vancouver's struggling punk music scene gets cinematic boost from 'No Fun City'

By Jenn Laidlaw | Image: Flickr / Luis Markovic | Published: August 30, 2010
Documentary No Fun City sheds light on Vancouver's underground punk music scenes

No Fun City launches cross-country film tour at the Rickshaw on September 4, 2010

  No Fun City is becoming the talk of the town. The Vancouver-made documentary, which takes a look at the city’s struggling underground punk music scene, will embark on a cross-Canada and overseas tour this fall due to growing demand from the film festival circuit. A launch event on Saturday, September 4 at the Rickshaw Theatre will kick off the tour and help raise some needed coin to keep the film’s momentum up as it hits festivals in Vancouver, Montreal and London, England.
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DIM Cinema illuminates Canadian film

By Deanne Beattie, Sad Mag | Image: Brandon Gaukel | Published: August 27, 2010
Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk of DIM Cinema on Canadian film

Monthly experimental film event at Pacific Cinémathequè strives to keep Canadian film alive in Vancouver

  “You probably couldn’t name 10 Canadian filmmakers,” Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk challenges me. “That aren’t Atom Egoyan, I mean. Most people on the street, I don’t think, could name 10 Canadian filmmakers.”