Be Fresh Local Market, a sustainability-focused market and café, is addressing food insecurity in Vancouver neighborhoods head on by launching their Pay-It Forward program. VANCOUVER, BC, July 17, 2020 –Be Fresh’s Pay-It Forward program, launched today, will allow customers to donate the equivalent of a drink, snack, meal, or dinner for…
As our community collectively works towards reducing waste, many Vancouverites are experiencing a rise in the distribution of reusable bags over single-use ones by the stores they shop with. While we at Be Fresh love this movement away from…
Who is Greta? Greta Thunberg is a sixteen year old from Sweden who has skipped school to sit in front of the Swedish parliament every Friday for roughly one year to demand her government take greater action against the climate…
On June 4th, SPUD was awarded a Silver Canadian Leadership Award by the PAC Packaging Consortium, in the category of “Sustainable Process/Facility” for our Reusable Takeout Container pilot program. This is the second award this program has won- the first…
In our oceans right now there are 500 times more pieces of plastic than there are stars in our galaxy (1). We find plastic pollution all around us and yet very little is known about its effects on the…
You've probably heard by now that Canada's 12-year-old food guide received an update this week, maybe you've even taken a peek at the full report. Don't get overwhelmed by the guide’s sixty-two pages, they send home simple messages that all…
If I told you that you could save enough water to provide four years of fresh drinking water to Canadians and save about 3 billion lbs of greenhouse gas emissions from warming up our planet every year only by replacing…