I found a great website (www.gaisma.com) it gives sun direction, number of daylight hours, etc. I find it easier to understand then other azimuths I have used.
I’ll attach the charts that are relevant to us, and look for the print out on the studio wall.
The post includes an abstract from the book I brought up in our discussion on Monday (entitled: “Leviathan and the Air Pump, subtitled Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life “) . This shift in how science and observation are conducted and perceived (individually and socially) is intriguing with regard to the new programming of research [...]
Dan Graham is coming next Friday.
If his last talk in town was any indication, he yelled at my friend Ron who was working as his projectionist and was not changing slides fast enough for Mr. Graham, this event should certainly not be lacking in entertainment value.
from NYTimes article
” WAKING up in a strange hotel can be disorienting. Now imagine staying down the hall from 60 cows, 2 goats and a baby rabbit. Oh, and you’re sleeping on a pile of hay.
Leave it to the Germans to combine livestock with lodging. In the last decade, hundreds of farms throughout Germany have [...]
The Wildlife Rescue Association has helped over 300 species of animals since 1979, (they are located in Burnaby).
This may or may not be relevant to our project depending on your thesis, but it might interest some of you. The talk is titled, The Forgotten Women of Stanley Park; its this sunday from 1-3 by donation. Here’s the link.
The Owl Foundation is a non-profit conservation organization that operates a centre for both the rehabilitation to release status of Canadian Owl species, and the [...]
Here is an article from Vancouver Sun about BC birds at risk.
Anthrozoology is the study of the relationships between humans and animals.
Anthrozoology is unique in that it studies the role of animals in the lives of humans, and vice versa. It has been called many other things, including “human animal interaction”, and the “human animal bond”.
The term Anthrozoology comes from the Greek anthropos , meaning human, [...]
The development of Southeast False Creek (sefc) is and has been a huge undertaking by the city - a lot of their preliminary research could be useful, in particular these two articles investigate how to integrate urban agriculture into the sefc site. I haven’t read the entire documents, the first is called urban agriculture strategy [...]