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 [...]