Sharing Backyards started in Victoria three years ago when a volunteer took a garden-sharing list from a community garden bulletin board and posted it online, designing an interactive website that let people post their requests on a map of the city – indicating "lookers" with binoculars and "sharers" with a tree inside a plot.
The free program has spread to more than 20 cities across North America. Project leader Christopher Hawkins aims to inspire 500 new urban vegetable plots by early next year.
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation. The truth, seldom mentioned but there for anyone to see, is that nature is not so easily molded... Rachel Carson,Silent Spring, 1962
"It has been demonstrated that forest can be put back on the most barren lands. What is required is an organized effort to rehabilitate these areas. This means trained men, and money, with legal authority over the area in question, to prevent private interests from again creating barrens and destroying the natural forest protection of vital watersheds. Considerable public sentiment has been aroused against wholesale destruction of private woodlands. Legislation, and machinery to administer the enforcement of forest protection on our important watersheds, should at least be given first consideration."
October 1944
Edmund Zavitz (1875 - 1968)
Former Deputy Minister of Forestry
"Father" of modern environmentalism in Ontario and beyond
The views expressed are those of the editor and do not necessarily reflect those of OPSEU.
Co-dedicated to Ken Saro-Wiwa
"I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die. "
"... as I see it, the generation to which I belong is about to leave the scene. There is a need for the next generation to prepare itself to continue where we shall have left off."
Ken Saro-Wiwa Executed by the Nigerian state in 1995 for defending the Ogoni people and the environment
Co-dedicated to Rachel Carson
"Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life." Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, 1962.
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