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Derek Jacobsen

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  1. Improve Wild Salmon habitat by creating mini road end parks along the North Arm of the Fraser River

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    2 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Improve access to nature  ·  Admin →
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  2. Develop a city-supported urban farming program

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    10 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Encourage local food  ·  Admin →
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  3. Put Some Teeth into Tree Policy:Trees really are an essential cornerstone to our green future.

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  4. Plant trees to reduce your property tax.

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  5. Stormwater/Rainwater capture

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Use less water  ·  Admin →
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  6. Revitalize the False Creek Flats

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    4 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Improve access to nature  ·  Admin →
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    Derek Jacobsen commented  · 

    The City of Vancouver has contributed significantly to the destruction of our once most vital local sustainable resource, our salmon fishery. Cities up and down the Northwest Coast, from Ashland to Anchorage are daylighting and even stocking urban streams and lakes. Vancouver's mad dash to separate its sewer lines is 100% opposite the principles of Low Impact Development and continued stream suppression is a recognised environmental crime.

    The Supreme Court has ruled twice that the First Nations peoples have a right to their historical fisheries, and yet our policies--federal, provincial, AND municipal--continue to deprive them of that right, by killing off all of their fish. Justice is being scandalously denied to profit further from stolen lands.

    Daylight at least a few of Vancouver's vast network of streams, and make a real contribution to sustainability, ecological action, economic development, and legal and social justice. This is our only path.

    Derek Jacobsen supported this idea  · 

  7. Put the Blue into Green: daylight our Lost Creeks

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    19 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Improve access to nature  ·  Admin →
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    Derek Jacobsen commented  · 

    The City of Vancouver has contributed significantly to the destruction of our once most vital local sustainable resource, our salmon fishery. Cities up and down the Northwest Coast, from Ashland to Anchorage are daylighting and even stocking urban streams and lakes. Vancouver's mad dash to separate its sewer lines is 100% opposite the principles of Low Impact Development and continued stream suppression is a recognised environmental crime.

    The Supreme Court has ruled twice that the First Nations peoples have a right to their historical fisheries, and yet our policies--federal, provincial, AND municipal--continue to deprive them of that right, by killing off all of their fish. Justice is being scandalously denied to profit further from stolen lands.

    Daylight at least a few of Vancouver's vast network of streams, and make a real contribution to sustainability, ecological action, economic development, and legal and social justice. This is our only path.

    Derek Jacobsen supported this idea  · 

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