GC 2020
6 results found
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Make some supermarkets only local food!
You can bulid super markets only offering local food, and organic food, and for extra make the roof solar power and cover the roof's edge with vines and cool plants! Who is with me?!
23 votesThis is a business decision that would be under the discretion of the owner
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Provide rental property owners with small tax break if they provide garden plots
The city could provide a small tax break (or waive a percentage of the business license fee perhaps?) to rental property owners if they allowed residents to create garden plots. This would be particularly helpful for residents in the West End, where demand far exceed capacity.
47 votesA number of apartments provide renters with garden plots already as this improves local neighbourhood, security, and public health.
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Subsidise local small and family farms
The farmers market is great! But ridiculously expensive, making it a trendy outing for the elite - rather than a truly useful lifestyle choice available to all. Most people don't know that the reason the GMO / hormoned up / poisoned with antibiotics and mostly imported farm food you can get at Safeway is so cheep is because big factory farms are for the most part subsidized by our governments. If local and regional farmers were subsidized in such a way, an over-all better quality of food would be more readily available - and more people would make the choice…
44 votesDirect subsidies unlikely; however the City can support local farms through a local food procurement policy, which is addressed in the draft Greenest City Action Plan.
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Education is key, subsidize trainings in Permaculture Design Courses
Bring leaders from the Permaculture feild to Vancouver. Support people to take such courses like the one that UBC farm just kicked off.
http://permaculturedesignubcfarm2010.eventbrite.com/
Train children, School farms.
I'm going to Southern Oregon to take this course in two weeks,
http://www.restorationfarm.org/Restoration_Farm/Courses.html
would be nice to have such leaders come here and train. Often in the trainings a portion of the training will be spent transforming a peice of land into a ecological sustainable edible garden.
I am confident that we could become the greenest city, but to do that we will need millions of people working together.
Build healthy soil.
5 votesPermaculture and other landscape programs are available to the community are offered by various non-profits and community food groups.
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Nutritious Food Preparation Education
Launch an educational campaign & programs so that everyone can learn how to cook.
Include new people who immigrate here in this process. Many folks, when they move to North America, think that the typical fast food/pre-packaged way we eat here is something worth adopting. Often immigrants arrive very healthy, but get less healthy from living the typical North American lifestyle. Conversation and a mutual exchange of food skills would enrich the culinary lives of everyone involved.
This is a "green" option, because prepackaged food tends to be processed and grown in unsustainable ways. Knowing how to cook is a…
7 votesThis is already happening in the community. We’re not offering healthy food workshops but other community organizations do.
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Granville St=one long garden
Keep the current pedestrian part of Granville St downtown closed to cars forever and turn it into one long garden. You could have a section for food, a native plant garden and even a butterfly garden. It would be a unique tourist attraction, could be used as an educational tool and would develop community. So get ride of the strange dirty AstroTurf and make the pedestrian only street even better for our environment.
30 votesRecent Granville St redesign and desire to focus this area as a retail/entertainment area suggest it’s not the best spot for a street transformation.
