EPIC 2008: The SUSTAINABLE LIVING EXPO

Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre at Canada Place

Vancouver, BC

April 18-20, 2008

www.epicvancouver.com

For inquiries, call 604.775.7300

The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo is Vancouver’s largest green consumer show and eco-marketplace. Visit EPIC to learn about environmentally-friendly products and companies that mix style and quality with sustainability.

Greening your life is easy - all you need is a little education and inspiration. EPIC has lots of both. Join us for this three day celebration of green living, and surround yourself with truly inspiring people and environmentally innovative products.

The Green Living Show is scheduled to take place February 29 – March 2 at BC Place, Vancouver. The event offers attendees an interactive and enjoyable experience through a high-profile, three-day show dedicated to learning about and purchasing green products and services. Our Mission is to bring together A-List Eco-Celebrities and over 200 earth-friendly companies in the following categories: energy, home & garden, building, fashion & beauty, transportation and automotive and organic foods.

The Green Living Show will showcase an extensive organic food & beverage section. This section will be promoted to people who are concerned about the environmental impact and quality of the foods and beverages they consume. In all, we expect roughly 20,000 green focused attendees over the weekend including trade representatives, associations and members of the general public.

Come dress up and eat up!

Date: Saturday, October 27, 2007
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: SPEC Building in Kitsilano at 2150 Maple Street (Corner of 6th and Maple) in Vancouver, BC

Come join the Earthsave 25 and Under Group for a vegan Halloween potluck party! This event is open to all youth – you don’t have to be a vegan (or even a vegetarian!) to come; only your dish has to be. Costumes are encouraged (but not one hundred percent necessary) and there will be prizes for the best dressed, the best themed dish (chocolate orange Halloween cupcakes anyone?) and plenty of awesome vegan food. Doors open at 6:30 and we'll load up our plates at 7:15 at the latest, so please try and be on time! Feel free to drop in for a great meal before going to your Halloween party!

I reached an interesting link at the Organic Consumers Assoc website.

source: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4607.cfm

As I understand it around 98% of world wide vitamins and minerals supplements are manufactured by 1 to 3 companies.

In the US and Canada most are actually synthetic chemical concoctions that contain coal tar, preservatives, artificial colorings, and a vast range of other potentially harmful additives. (I read, laws are that all synthetic chemicals must be tested on animals !? if so they are not vegan)

So what the Organic community is trying to do is to influence and build awareness and asking for 'truth in labeling', to enable consumers to distinguish between those vitamins and supplements that are truly natural and organic (certified organic is best as it is audited). I think this is a great and wonderful idea.

VanVeg has had a tremendous growth over the last couple years, and I, Nathaniel, would like to thank all the new friends of mine that made it happen. There have been lots of new faces, each event gets a bigger and bigger turnout, and as we fly into 2007, we start the year off with what I hope to be our biggest event yet to be held at Bo Kong.

The restaurant is renown for it's vegetarian food that can satisfy even the most avid carnivore friends of ours while having a taste of the vegetarian life.

That being said, I invite you to join the members of VanVeg for this free event. You simply pay for what you decide to eat and drink. There is no entrance fee, membership fee, or any other sort of fee to come enjoy a night out with us for any VanVeg event.

When: Thursday, March 1st, 2007 - 6:00pm
Where: Bo Kong Vancouver, 3068 Main Street
Who: Anyone and everyone (vegetarian/vegan or not!)
How much?: Free! You only pay for what you eat and/or drink

Please RSVP for this event here. If you don't you may find yourself without a seat (or even source someone else without a seat!)

I just created a new mailing list for the VanVeg community. Everyone who subscribed to the newsletter on this site has been imported into the new database as that's where any newsletters will be sent when they are made available.

If you are interested in discussing with other Vegetarians and Vegans, please do sign up and share your ideas, insights, and experiences with everyone on the list.

For more information, please fill out this form.

radha yoga & eatery is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic chef to help develop our vegetarian/vegan restaurant.

As a chef you have/are…

* Passionate about vegetarian & vegan cooking
* Previous experience cooking in a restaurant kitchen and catering for large groups
* Food Safe Certificate
* Awareness of sustainable food practices and an interest in bringing them into practice
* Culinary arts training (preferred but not required)
* Enthusiastic and interested in developing radha’s eatery. You have good ideas and the patience and perseverance to see them through to completion

This is one of the best events yet. Radha is offering VanVeg members a 2 for 1 discount for this dine-out, and with the last event at the Naam being the largest yet, this one is sure to be packed.

The last event was excellent, everyone that went had an excellent time, and as I have heard so far on the reviews, the discussions were very diverse.

The amazing people at Radha Yoga & Eatery have been extremely generous, and have given me a number of 2 for 1 entree tickets for this event. Enough so that everyone that comes will be able to split the cost with someone else.

We welcome you to join us for this special event and try out the menu at this new venue. Hope to see you there!

View the full details or to RSVP if you would like to come

I just called the Naam, and I we spoke about how it would be best to organize us to get the table with all of us sitting together, and we need to all show up for 6pm.

I will be there a bit earlier to get the table booked, but unfortunately they will only hold the table for 15minutes, so if you can, please show up a bit early if possible.

For more details on the event, or to RSVP, visit:

http://vegetarian.meetup.com/110/events/4974068/

See you all there!

Nathaniel.

radha yoga & eatery is a combination yoga centre and vegan eatery. The eatery recently opened for dinners Thursdays through Saturdays from 6 – 10 pm. Live music (singer-songwriters, world music groups, crystal bowls, electronic) is performed once a week, usually Friday nights. Lunches are served from 11:30 – 3:30 weekdays.

The eatery will be featured as “the most interesting vegetarian restaurant in Vancouver” in an upcoming Food Services & Hospitality magazine. The new dinner menu, created by head chef, Kali Saltibus, features delicately blended southeast Asian flavors—including a wonderful adaptation of pad thai, featured in the winter 2005 Food Issue of ascent magazine—and extraordinary Western alternatives, such as tofu steaks with a peppercorn sauce. An array of organic salads, appetizers, varieties of organic iced teas, fresh juices, local beer and organic BC wines complement the entrees. For dessert try whole fruit iced dream or an organic fresh fruit of the day crumble.