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	Cowpower straight from farm to grid - Roberta, cow number 1120 on the Bakerview Ecodairy near Abbotsford, BC, spends a good part of her days producing milk, and now she’s generating – albeit unwittingly – another commodity people see as essential to the good life: electricity. Well, to be precise, Roberta is generating a byproduct of the dairy industry that she and her herd have always produced in significant quantities, manure…
	Is the idea of ‘providence’ leading to economic miscalculation? - Is the present economic model based on perpetual growth a new formulation of Smith’s assumptions about uninhibited liberty and the unfettered pursuit of self-interest? Has the growth mantra become a providential imperative? And if so, what possible hope can there be that what is known as ‘the commons’ will ever be adequately factored into our calculations?
	Green Clippings eNews for June - The June edition of the Green Clippings eNewsletter has been shipped. Items include: LEED Design is changing our ‘built environment’ \| How nature teaches nurturing in our own back yards \| Vancouver Island Trail System proposed \| Bike Tourism the in thing \| Living Future Symposium \| Canadian Green Building Council annual convention and Expo \| Articles on how energy efficient homes are getting easier to build \| Dual purposed parking meters in Victoria \| and more… Subscribe to Green Clippings
	Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design is changing our ‘built environment’ - BC’s ‘built form’ has been evolving since the mid-19th Century, with hundreds of thousands of homes, offices, public buildings, commercial spaces and factories constructed, all using the materials and designs that were appropriate for their times. But as the world turns toward Green solutions, BC and other jurisdictions face monumental challenges rethinking and retrofitting the places we live, work and shop. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design criteria are part of meeting that challenge.
	Community Micro Lending: small loans make a big difference - When you think about it, Community Micro Lending gives a lot more than it lends. Just ask Stephanii Holmes, owner of Whole Approach Integrative Health, which opened for business in 2012, thanks in part to a $2,500 loan from an organization that encourages people to “Imagine, Act, Flourish.”
	Why we should be proud to be humble - We need to celebrate our connection to every aspect of the environment and – more to the point, if we are going to solve the species-generated crisis of Global Warming – embrace mutual dependence.
	New Business as Usual - Capital Regional District’s New Business as Usual breakfast brought together 200 business and community leaders. More…
	Welcome to Urban Greens - A meeting and sharing place for people with a passion for the new, Green Economy. Find out more…
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