by Daisymupp | Apr 14, 2011 | Cycling, Farming, Springwise
Community-supported agriculture is not an unfamiliar concept for regular Springwise readers, nor are the often-associated add-ons of bicycle-based produce delivery and compost services. Canadian Fresh Roots Urban Farm offers all of these; what sets it apart, however, is a series of partnerships it’s formed with local schools in the Vancouver area to create urban farms on school land.
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by Daisymupp | Mar 19, 2011 | Springwise
Online payments may be easier to make than their offline counterparts in general, but there’s still at least some pain involved in entering account numbers and other information. (more…)
by Daisymupp | Jan 26, 2011 | Springwise
If variety is the spice of life, then most of us live a fairly bland existence on our desktop computers, whose background wallpaper we tend to leave the same, day after day. (more…)
by Daisymupp | Jan 19, 2011 | Springwise
There’s certainly no shortage of photography classes out there to help hone enthusiasts’ skills. What’s much less common, to say the least, is the chance to take a class inside a working camera obscura. (more…)
by Daisymupp | Dec 28, 2010 | Springwise
DJs, promoters, label reps and ‘professional party people’ from the Netherlands have persuaded Dutch airline KLM to add an extra flight to its roster. In a new twist on crowd-buying, the initiators of Fly2Miami made a bet with KLM on Twitter to organize a non-stop flight from Amsterdam to Miami.
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