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About Urban Food Revolution

Peter Ladner is a former Vancouver city councilor, Metro Vancouver vice-chair and business owner who is currently a weekly columnist at Business in Vancouver newspaper and a regular contributor to crosscut.com, a Seattle-based online news service. He is the author of The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way we Feed Cities, published by New Society in November, 2011. For the past two years he has been a Fellow at the SFU Centre for Dialogue researching, teaching and organizing public events around the theme Planning Cities as if Food Matters. He was first elected to Vancouver City Council in 2002, was re-elected in 2005 and ran for mayor in 2008. He is a former member of the TransLink Board, and was vice chair of the Metro Vancouver Board. Peter has been the publisher, president and part owner of the Business in Vancouver Media Group, which he co-founded in 1989. He has a lifelong interest in growing food. As a city councilor, he worked with the Vancouver Food Policy Council in initiating the city’s program to add 2010 food-producing community garden plots by 2010. He is vice-chair of the The Natural Step Canada, part of an international organization that advances sustainability in communities and corporations. He has a B.A. from UBC and did graduate work at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. He and his wife Erica have four adult children.

IPCC report says beef and pork consumpti

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Urban Food Revolution

IPCC report says beef and pork consumption must fall by 90%, poultry and milk by 60%, replaced by four to six times more beans and pulses. Or else. As if. Anybody have a better idea?! http://ow.ly/zhCB30myktw

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Gotta love this air-cleaning “bench”:

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Urban Food Revolution

Gotta love this air-cleaning “bench”: The CityTree is a strange mix of bench and hedge… 4m-high vertical garden inhales pollution & exhales fresh air = 275 trees in 1% of the space. Each holds 1,682 pots of moss which extract … Continue reading →

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Delta farmer Terry Bremner on another do

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Urban Food Revolution

Delta farmer Terry Bremner on another downside of soaring real estate out of synch with local incomes: the ALR is doomed: “The ALR doesn’t work today. It was created 45 years ago when farms were farms– you bought a farm … Continue reading →

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VERY disturbing video of farmed salmon p

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Urban Food Revolution

VERY disturbing video of farmed salmon processing blood, http://ow.ly/opuv30gS6Vr disease pumping into wild salmon migratory path

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Difficult questions about aquaculture: i

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Urban Food Revolution

Difficult questions about aquaculture: is it really 7x more expensive to raise salmon on land? Is land-based fish farm at Pt. McNeil breaking even or a boondoggle? Should land-based fish farms be close to markets and airports? Check comments. http://ow.ly/3YZP30gBqAk