The Rubbish Fairy is dead.

 tree trunk tombstone

THIS JUST IN! … “The rubbish fairy is dead.”

So proclained a Mr. Paul Bettison, Chairman of the environmental board of the local government association in England. He was quoted in the New York Times 2 weeks ago, Friday June 27, 2008 in an article entitled: “Laws Tell Britons Exactly How To Take Out The Trash”. Mr Bettison also added - “people have to

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Posted at 6pm on 07/16/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Ideas, Editorials, etc.

Of Bones and Shells

© Dave Demers

Themes help one busy designer’s mind to focus. And there is more than fauna-minded and chromatic twists to garden themes.

Having been forced out of my downtown high-end pencil tower last fall, I backtracked to my old hood: Kitsilano. Yuppie central, Kitsilano is best in town for older walk-up apartment buildings with funky lay-outs and, yes,

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Posted at 8am on 07/14/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Design, Suppliers of goods

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PlanetPlant - Musings from the Global Garden is a collective undertaking between bi-costal horticultural friends, Canadian Dave Demers and American Gary Keim. Frustrated with the temporal content and distribution limitations of glossy magazines and dearth of opinion, the two friends longed for a better medium for credible voices, virgin or seasoned, to be heard the world over. Hence was born PlanetPlant.

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