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Mobile Living

ThunderbirdTV.ca — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:58:34 +0000

Angela came up with a creative solution for dealing with Vancouver’s high rental rates: living in her RV. She’s been living in her vehicle for nine years and, as an older woman, worries about what her housing future looks like in one of the world’s most unaffordable cities.

By Aleksandra Sagan and Calyn Shaw

Live Collective

ThunderbirdTV.ca — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:56:23 +0000

Living collectively means sharing chores and costs, but at the Beehive collective house, you also need to share the same social and environmental values. Sara Ross, a Beehive member for three years, will take us through some of the perks and pitfalls of collective living in East Vancouver.

By Farida Hussain

Art as a Means of Survival

ThunderbirdTV.ca — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:18:50 +0000

Gachet is not your typical Downtown Eastside art gallery in Vancouver. It is a place for people battling mental illness to be part of a community and develop their art. For Eric “Leef Evans” Howker, the gallery helped him overcome his depression and launch into a successful career as an artist. But with new condominiums going up all around, Gachet may have to close up or move out of the neighbourhood. Eric worries what this will mean for the community.

By Jamie Williams and Carrie Swiggum

Sight Unseen

ThunderbirdTV.ca — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:57:09 +0000

Blind photography might seem an oxymoron. But islander Ken Gray points his lens to reveal a vast canvas of possibility beyond the shutter to capture the world in a whole new light.

By Chelsea Blazer and Chris Reynolds

Cowichan Bay Digs Slow Living

Alfred Hermida — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:56:17 +0000

The small town of Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island has made a big impression for its efforts to promote local and sustainable food production. It is the first Cittaslow, or Slow City, in North America.

Robyn Smith, Vivian Luk and Yvonne Robertson look at how one town has found an alternative to fast-paced living, and what potential it could have for surrounding towns and the city of Vancouver.

Stanley Park strives to balance ecology and tourism

Alfred Hermida — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:50:34 +0000

Tourism Vancouver is expecting more visitors this year, one reason being the recent international exposure from the Olympic games. Though this is good news for the local economy, this influx in tourism comes with an unexpected price for the city’s natural beauty.

Jes Abeita, Rebecca Cheung and Ursula Diaz produced this report.

Urban farms struggle to provide low-cost food

ThunderbirdTV.ca — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:48:06 +0000

The SOLEfood Farm in East Vancouver is part of a larger project to provide locally grown food in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood. However, it is finding it hard to grow produce at a cost that is affordable to the people in the area.

The farm is only able to offer only six jobs to Downtown Eastside residents, and none of its first harvest will be made available to the neighbourhood. Instead, it is planning to sell its crop to high-end restaurants in order to pay the bills.

Produced by Daniel Guillemette, Michelle Ha, and Grant Burns.

Variety is the key ingredient for vegetarians

Alfred Hermida — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:54:22 +0000

While a vegetarian diet has its benefits, simply replacing your chicken with chard isn’t enough. The key to proper vegetarianism is supplementing the nutrients lost when animal-based foods are removed.

Mike Green, Brooke Hykaway and Jessica Michielin take a bite out of the equation that vegetarianism automatically equals healthy.

Chickens to roost in Vancouver backyards

Alfred Hermida — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:30:00 +0000

Chickens in Vancouver face a vote at city council deciding the conditions for keeping them in backyards. For some chicken owners, the new regulations could be a curse, rather than a blessing. Daniel Hallen has the story.

The broadcast of the future

ThunderbirdTV.ca — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:14:53 +0000

The journalism industry is evolving, and at the forefront of this shift are students from UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism.

For this television broadcast, we broke the conventional rules of reporting. We engaged with unique storytelling formats and experimented with diverse shooting and editing techniques. The end result is a host of videos that showcase our vision of the future of broadcast journalism.

The Project Editor for this broadcast is Kerry Blackadar. Assistant Editor is Amanda Ash.