This year’s theme for the Vancouver Earth Run is Oceans. The people of the Lower Mainland benefit a great deal from having the Pacific Ocean as their neigbour: mild weather, lots of room to play and fresh seafood. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Spiderman, it’s that with great power comes great responsibility. And [...]

We all have good intentions when it comes to exercise, especially at the start of the new year. But as work, family, and your social life start edging their way onto your calendar, staying focused can get a little difficult. Here are a few tips that have helped keep me on the move:     [...]

Have you heard of Earth 3.0? Scientific American came up with this term to define the global environmental transition that is currently taking place. We are gradually changing our mindset and realizing that every person’s actions have an effect. We are leaving the industrialized age – Earth 2.0 – and upgrading to a more sustainable [...]

The Earth Run Foundation is pleased to announce its beneficiaries for this year’s Vancouver Earth Run! In keeping with our 2012 theme of healthy and sustainable oceans, the David Suzuki Foundation, Surfrider Foundation, and the Young Naturalists’ Club of BC have been selected as our beneficiary partners. We are excited to be working with these [...]

Still not sure if you want to do this year’s Vancouver Earth Run? Here is our top 5 list of reasons why you definitely should:   5. It’s a great way to keep your New Year’s resolution Mid-January to early February tends to be make-it-or-break-it time for those lofty New Years resolutions. THIS was going [...]

2011 was the first year of our Earth Run School Day Program, and what a fantastic start it was! Kicking it off were some amazing teachers and supportive principals who led the way in educating their students on environmental issues, solutions and took on projects to get the kids involved in implementing their solutions. It [...]

Have you ever stopped to think that all of your Facebook photos, comments, and updates are stored on servers somewhere in the world? And that these servers are plugged in 24/7 to keep the largest social network on the planet up and running? With the growth of the Internet, datacenters like Facebook’s have become major [...]