Comments on: Save the UBC Farm – can we?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:24:25 +0000

hey, they have had a University farm at UC Santa Cruz for years
http://casfs.ucsc.edu/

I bet they have some tips for keeping the farm!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:59:22 +0000

Hi Vote 16 – you might need to re-calibrate your sarcasm detection meter…

By: Vote16

Vote16 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:22:47 +0000

What do you mean ”what has food ever done for me”? Local farming is just as important for the environment as affordable housing is in our society, and they do not have to fight each other. The municipal government obviously has enough money to develop more if they can pay 100 million to bail out the Olympic village. PUBLIC INSTITUTION = governement = has enough money to develop and MAINTAIN affordable housing elsewhere. Ladner and Sullivan have even removed affordable housing, and then they go and spend 100 million on the Olympic village. Their priorities must be reevaluated and condos (which are not even cheap housing) on a farm will not replace affordable housing.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:22:50 +0000

You’re right D’Arcy, if Web 2.0 doesn’t save us, surely Web 3.0 will.

The other 89-98% of us are trying to follow your noble example and ride our bikes more!

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:16:50 +0000

Well, surely we will find a solution to this. Perhaps judicious application of Web 2.0 technologies, allowing people to live in remote (and more cost effective) regions and still attend school and work. If you want to live in Vancouver, you’ve got to have the dough. Or, I guess, the money to _buy_ the dough, because that’s going to be even harder to come by than affordable housing…

2% of UBC employees could afford a house on campus. 11% could afford an apartment. That’s just insane. Where do the other 89-98% wind up? schlepping to campus on a 1 hour commute (or more) while the wealthy get to pave the campus farm to build fancy homes. yikes.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:01:16 +0000

Who said anything about “cheap” housing? This is “market” housing:

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/04/22/HomeCostCrunch/

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:24:34 +0000

pffffft. what has food ever done for me? nothing. give me cheap housing any day. I can eat when I’m dead. You troublemakers with all of your “I want to feed my family” whining. makes me want to drive my Hummer over the mountains to deliver a serious buttwhuppin’. If a public institution decides it’s more important to sell some shacks for a quick buck than to feed people, I think it is our duty to honour, defend, and respect that decision.