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Purpose and Product: the Beginning of a CSA Part III

August 10, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Last weekend, a few of our CSA members headed out to Linden, Alberta for another visit to Oxyoke Farms. We’d been out a month or two before that and had a great time.
I took a few videos from this last trip, but Windows Vista didn’t seem to like them, so I’ve been struggling for the [...]

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If climate change didn’t exist

Thumbnail image for If climate change didn’t exist July 22, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

It’s pretty safe to say that climate change denial is on the decline. Perhaps Calgary school oil-pimp Barry Cooper might be holding on to the margins of the Calgary Herald for his dear life, but all-in-all climate change has been bought into by the majority of individuals. Even the oil companies have bought in–albeit it’s [...]

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Lessons from Cuba/Employing Insect Farmers (encore)

Thumbnail image for Lessons from Cuba/Employing Insect Farmers (encore) June 30, 2009 by Jon Steinman

The New Resilient now features Deconstructing Dinner, an award-winning weekly radio podcast about local and international food issues brought to you by Kootenay Coop Radio CJLY FM in Nelson, British Columbia. You can download the latest episode here, stream it here or download the podcast via iTunes.
Launching this episode, we travel to Cuba – a [...]

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Calgary Cowbell – New Independent Media

June 25, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

I’m sure many of our readers have come across David Wilson’s work by now. I’ve been a fan of his viewpoint articles in Fast Forward Weekly for the past few years. More recently, David launched a Blogspot blog called “Calgary Cowbell,” the goal of which was to “[ring] in a more sustainable, equitable, and democratic [...]

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Finding Oxyoke Farms: the Beginning of a CSA Part I

Thumbnail image for Finding Oxyoke Farms: the Beginning of a CSA Part I June 24, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

The decision to visit was somewhat spur-of-the-moment. A family friend, her two children, my wife and I piled into a Subaru station wagon one afternoon and took off toward Linden, Alberta, not knowing what exactly to expect. It’s about an hour drive from Calgary. We pass through Beiseker (past their statue of “Squirt” the skunk, [...]

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Urban Farmer Makes Calgary Visit – #YYC Events

Thumbnail image for Urban Farmer Makes Calgary Visit – #YYC Events June 19, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Ron Berezan, also known as the “Urban Farmer” will be visiting Calgary and giving a talk on Permaculture in the City at the Unitarian Church of Calgary this coming Wednesday.
We had a chance to see a presentation given by Ron at the 2009 Permaculture Convergence in Olds a few months ago. Ron is an impressive, [...]

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Wendell Berry: Agrarian Radical

May 12, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

I think I’ll just give a plug for one of the most intelligent, principled and writers of our time. His book Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, and subsequent reads, completely transformed my own views on ecology and the human project, making it clear that all life on this earth functions in an economy of communion [...]

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Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part II)

Thumbnail image for Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part II) April 6, 2009 by Jonathan Wright

This is part 2 of a series of articles penned by Jonathan Wright, a Calgary area farmer and co-founder of one of the city’s first community supported agriculture programs. Jon operates a zero-emission farm called Thompson Small Farm near Carbon, Alberta with his partner Andrea.
Thompson Small Farm has different ideas about “sustainable” from those of [...]

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Ecological dividends and the current financial crisis

February 11, 2009 by Robert Clegg

Recent estimates conclude that approximately 40% of the world’s wealth has disappeared and there seems to be no end in sight to the current financial meltdown ravaging the global financial and economic system.
Each day we are inundated by stories depicting the plight of soccer moms no longer able to afford a “fill up” of the [...]

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