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    Bailey’s Local Foods

  • Bailey's Local Foods

    Bailey's Local Foods

    Nina Bailey Dick knows farming and how difficult a life it is. She grew up on a traditional farm and after hight school studied organic farming. She felt though that while there were plenty of farmers in her Kitchener Waterloo area, what was missing was a way to get their produce directly to consumers. Not every farmer can man a stall at a farmers market, and consumers she felt should not have to drive all over the countryside just to buy local.

    And so, she set up Bailey’s Local Foods, basically a local food buying club, from her home to help bridge the void. And, she was then promptly shut down by local authorities as she had run afoul of the Kitchner Waterloo zoning rules.

    Nina Bailey-Dick spoke to Green Life reporter Peter Stock and explained what happened and why she feels zoning rules need to be changed.

    • Masdar City

  • Masdar City

    Masdar City

    Jennifer Taylor has just completed her Masters in Environmental Studies at York University. Her focus there has been renewable energy, which is how Masdar City came onto her radar screen.

    This 24 Billion dollar planned community is touted as being the world’s most sustainble – car free, carbon neutral, waste free….

    It has also snatched the headquarters for IRENA – the International Renewable Energy Agency – from under the noses of better known renewable leaders like German, Norway and Denmark.

    But might there something hypocritical about an island of leading edge sustainability in the middle of a major petroleum producing country, which also has one of the world’s biggest carbon footprints, next door to a Formula One race track?

    Jennifer Taylor wondered the same thing and wrote about Masdar City for the “Your Town: Sustainable by Design” issue of Alternatives Journal.

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