Pedal To Petal is a permaculture-based collective of bicycle loving food security activists who are taking direct action to reduce carbon emissions and landfill waste and to feed the soil and the city's hungry.

Vermicomposting is a system for turning food waste into potting soil with the help of worms.

What do I need?

An aerated container
Bedding such as shredded newspaper
Moisture and proper temperature
Small amount of soil
Redworms (Eisenia fetida)

What do I do?

Sign the petition!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/defend-the-regional-growth-strategy-...

IN REGARD TO the proposed amendment to the Regional Growth Strategy to extend the Regional Urban Containment and Servicing Area boundary in the District of Highlands:

THE COST OF PLASTIC BAGS

Let’s face it – they’re a scourge. On average, each person uses 300 bags a year. Collectively, the people of BC use 1.2 billion bags a year, using 18 million litres of the world’s oil supply a year, releasing 50,400 tonnes of CO2. (Data via San Francisco’s Department of the Environment).

The term "guerilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world.

Website URL: http://www.sacredsuenos.com

Having just gotten back from Sacred Sueños farm near Vilcabamba, Ecuador, I´m quite happy to have hope that simple dreams are possible. Starting with one man, a mission and a little money, a mountaintop is gradually being nurtured into an organic homestead.