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Start a fruit tree project

picking fruit that would be otherwise wasted can have a huge impact

In British Columbia there is an abundance of fruit bearing trees. European settlers were planting fruit trees as early as 1826. Though many people have fruit trees within their reach, they often go unattended and their harvest ends up rotting on someone's lawn. While bugs devour the local fruit, the same general kind is still bought at grocery stores - but for its durability and good looks rather than its local significance, flavour or tradition.

Fruit tree projects try to take these trees that are producing good usable, tasty food and harvest them to their full potential.

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Food not Bombs

Food not bombs!

Food not Bombs is a vegetarian and vegan collective that serves free meals. Independent chapters exist all over the world and make their own decisions through consensus and are composed of volunteers. Food that would have otherwise gone to waste is donated by groceries and bakeries, local gardens or even through dumpster diving and then cooked into delicious meat-free meals. The group works nonviolently against poverty and war, giving food to anyone who is hungry.

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Sharing food should not be a crime

Think of "food terrorism" and what do you see? Diabolical plots to taint items on grocery-store shelves? If you are Buddy Dyer, the mayor of Orlando, Fla., you might be thinking of a group feeding the homeless and hungry in one of your city parks. That is what Dyer is widely quoted as calling the activists with the Orlando chapter of Food Not Bombs -- "food terrorists." In the past few weeks, no less than 21 people have been arrested in Orlando, the home of Disney World, for handing out free food in a park.

Spiritualizing relationships

Apr 23 2009 - 6:30pm
Apr 23 2009 - 9:00pm

Location

York University Student Centre
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
Phone: 647.261.7499
43° 46' 26.4396" N, 79° 29' 37.626" W

A warm fuzzy feeling in the heart and a sense of excitement can easily pass as love. In every relation we search for love...at home with family or at school with friends, we are looking for loving relations. We have eternally searched for that perfect relation in the name of love.

Every relationship has its ups and then the downs. Often the downs may seem to stay longer. Our eternal longing unanswered, we may ask is 'happily ever after' true only in fairytale. But the quest for a perfect relationship continues unfettered.

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Aarti
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