Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids: A Guide To Getting Your Kids Active In The Great Outdoors Eugene Buchanan Heliconia Press, March 2010, 300 pages. For those that refuse to let their kids become an obesity statistic, this is your book. Award-winning author Eugene Buchanan made a pact with his wife that parenthood wouldn’t interfere with their […]
Did you know the City of Spokane has a great program to recognize sustainable business practices?
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Anna Lappé is a national best-selling author who addresses sustainability in our everyday lives. In 2001, Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute (www.smallplanet.org) along with her mother, Francis Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a Small Planet, originally published in 1971). “At the Small Planet Institute, we seek to identify the core, often unspoken, assumptions
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Find yourself strolling along Market Street these days and you might stop in to browse antiques or sit to drink a coffee. Five months ago, you would have been brave to walk the then-narrow sidewalk. “There’s a new sound [on the street],” says long-time Hillyard resident and community activist Paul Hamilton. “It’s the clickety-clickety-clack of
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The Center for Justice, a Spokane non-profit community law firm, announced today that it intends to sue the City of Spokane for violating the Clean Water Act — Spokane has high levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in its river, posing a health risk to area residents. In 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified
GET YOUR MOUNTAIN CULTURE FIX IN ROSSLAND, B.C. Just north of the border, about three hours from Spokane, Rossland, B.C. is a laid back mountain town with an amazing stream of cultural events and offerings. Sure, many who visit Rossland tend to come for the renowned mountain biking trails or the legendary powder dumps up
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GET YOUR MOUNTAIN CULTURE FIX IN ROSSLAND, B.C. Just north of the border, about three hours from Spokane, Rossland, B.C. is a laid back mountain town with an amazing stream of cultural events and offerings. Sure, many who visit Rossland tend to come for the renowned mountain biking trails or the legendary powder dumps up
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p.e.a.c.h., a Spokane non-profit, is holding a fundraising event next weekend — join them for wine-tasting and/or a gourmet dinner! Below is the information they’ve provided. In celebration of the bounty of fall harvest here in the Inland Northwest, People for Environmental Action and Community Health (p.e.a.c.h.) is inviting area supporters and local food enthusiasts
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If you spend enough time in the outdoors, you are likely to experience a close call with death. Whether it’s a bear encounter, loss of footing on a steep slope or simply unexpected weather, every smart person who chooses to experience the inherent risks of outdoor adventure must be prepared – physically and mentally –
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The groundbreaking ceremony of the Centennial Trail in 1989 marked a new chapter for spokane recreation, and a new vision for most of the Spokane River. The freshly paved ribbon of asphalt, albeit incomplete, initiated a swell in jogging, Rollerblading and bike riding in the Spokane area. In the same year as the Tiananmen Square
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