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{ Daily Archives } Sunday, February 2007

Northern Voice Almost Sold Out

As the title says, the North­ern­Voice con­fer­ence, to be held Feb­ru­ary 23 and 24 at the Forestry Sci­ences Centre at UBC, is almost sold out. As of Fri­day, there were only 50 spots left, and I’m sure at least some of those are now gone. So if you want to be there, now’s the time […]

Compostable Plastic

The other day Tim brought home some food in a con­tainer that claimed to be made of corn and there­fore com­postable. I was intrigued by this, since I remem­ber going to street parties and Christ­mas mar­kets in Ger­many where the dis­pos­able plates were grain-based and even edible (not that people usu­ally did eat them) but […]