“Over the next 10 years, 500 million young people will seek employment in a rapidly changing world. Imagine…in 30 years, our professional working lives, we need to create homes, feed, communicate, create wealth, govern, and educate…for a low carbon, prosperous, healthy future.

In 30 years we can turn this world around
AND IT STARTS HERE RIGHT HERE

Join:
• David Orr, best known for his pioneering work on education for sustainability
• George Lakoff, linguist and political activist on how we think and communicate.
• Janine Benyus, writer, innovator, and consultant on the science of biomimicy.
• CEOs of Canada’s leading cleantech firms
• The best in business, governance, education, architecture, healthcare, food systems, industry, cleantech and energy, and communications.”

Local = Delicious.

At the Market this Month:

Vegetables – salad greens, green onions, radishes, shallots, spinach, sprouts, sunchokes, tomatoes
Fruit – apples, frozen blueberries, rhubarb, fresh strawberries, raspberries
Meat & Dairy – goat and cow’s milk cheese, yogurt, eggs, beef, chicken, lamb, pork, raw dog food
Seafood – cod, sablefish, shrimp, salmon, tuna
Herbs – bay leaves, chervil, rosemary, sage, savory (winter), thyme

If you are in the Vancouver area, please check out eatlocal.org to find a farmer’s market nearest you.

What is Pecha Kucha Night?

“Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a† demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world. Find a location and join the conversation.

Thoroughly enjoyable!