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Happening NOW: Nov. 17, 2009

What’s happening on November 17, 2009.

The city is warning that the cost of healthy food is going up, and that the province isn’t doing enough to deal with it. The increase is 7.4 per cent over 2008. And no, this has nothing to do with your HST-exempt Timmy’s doughnut and everything to do with what people should be having for breakfast.

But who needs to eat when you can just read about all the placentas sitting in people’s freezers. This story offers up suggestions for their reuse, including burial (as part of growing a new tree or shrub), turning it into pills (high in iron and hormones) and even making it into a teddy bear.

Filed under “I’ve been doing that for years”. Gardeners in Cambridgeshire, England have found a way to save water: use urine. In this case, a little tinkle helps decompose straw bales used in compost. Male pee is preferable because of lower acidity levels, but ladies can help too. It’s also saved 30 per cent of the water used in toilets on the National Trust property.

Our Ecoholic columnist Adria Vasil launches her latest tome, Ecoholic Home, at the Gladstone tonight (7 pm) as part of This is Not a Reading Series. Rick Smith, Executive Director of Environmental Defence and author of Slow Death By Rubber Duck, hosts. Cover’s $5.

Lastly, as we round out the first decade of the 2000s, what will be the lasting definition of the decade’s style? The 70s, 80s, 90s are pretty clear, but here’s a collection of opinions from authors, designers and curators of what the 00s will mean. Don’t be surprised to see iThings in the lists. [rssbreak]

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