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Friday, January 22, 2010 (All day)
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Friday, April 10, 2009 (All day)
North Shore News,
Manisha KrishnanLittle things can make a big difference.
That's what a group of kids in grades 4-6 from schools across North Vancouver will be learning over the month of May as part of the Climate Change Showdown, an initiative put together by the B.C. Sustainable Energy Association and Cool North Shore. The plan is to find 50 parent-child teams representing each elementary school in the North Vancouver school district and challenge them to reduce their carbon footprint by making simple changes in their daily lives.
"We heard about the Climate Change Showdown from a number of people and thought it...
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Monday, February 9, 2009 - 8:42pm
WorldChanging.com,
Peter ter WeemeI’m just back from a trip to Vietnam, a developing country that has seen economic growth of 8–9% for the past decade. During that time, the Vietnamese have diversified the economy, come to dominate several commodities and dramatically reduced poverty. If you imagine what the country looked like at the end of the Vietnam War, the country’s progress is all the more remarkable.
In its drive for development, some of Vietnam’s success has been the resilience of the Vietnamese people. And key to that resilience has been three key ingredients: tight social...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 (All day)
North Shore News
It's the first real blustery night of fall and the atmosphere inside Bella Candela restaurant offers a warm, inviting retreat from the rain.
Tonight, the restaurant on Esplanade in the City of North Vancouver is hosting a private function. About 25 tables show the spoils of what looks to have been a hearty and satisfying meal. The last remnants of wine are being divvied up among guests and breadbaskets are being cleared. The crowd seems comfortable and satiated.
An Italian restaurant is not the kind of place you would expect 40 people to kick off a diet, but this collection of busy parents, mature...
