Because we do not live in this world alone, but are related within a community of air, water, earth and billions of other species, how we act within this community forms the relationship that we, our children and our children's children, have and will have in the future. We hope you enjoy this year's forum and that together we help Vancouver move towards being a city with an active consciousness of its place - a Living City. We also wish to thank Canada Trust's Friends of the Environment Foundation, Environment Canada and the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation for their support and assistance with the first Babylon Gardens Initiative. Art Knapp Garden Centres, Avant Gardener, Country Furniture, David Hunter Garden Centre, Dig This, Van Dusen Botanical Garden and Wild Birds Unlimited. The Living City Forum is an initiative of the SongBird project, and is produced by Savage Media in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre.
Volunteers are also welcome.
The initiative also provided an information line and workshops staffed by the Douglas College Institute of Urban Ecology. Photographs of gardens entered in the contest will be on display at the Roundhouse from September 24th to October 8. The winning entries will be announced at the end of Sunday's Forum, with a catered reception, open to Forum participants, to follow. Congratulations to everyone who entered the contest, attended the workshops, or took steps to make Vancouver a more bird-friendly city this year. This is the second year of the Challenge.