What is this project?
This project is my contribution to the Access to Nature goal outlined in Vancouver's Greenest City 2020 Action Plan. One of the main targets in the plan is that all Vancouver residents will be within a five minute walk of a natural space by 2020.

Who am I?
I am Becky Till, a CityStudio student working in collaboration with the City of Vancouver on Greenest City projects. I am also a person wondering what it really means to have access to nature.

What will all the participants and myself be doing?
Each participant of this challenge is going to "take a moment" in a "natural space" everyday for the next ten days (March 24th - April 2nd). We will all be posting reflections both written and visual to share what impact this commitment is having on us.

Why am I doing this?
Well, because I used eat blackberries on a forest path during my commute and now I try not to get hit by cars. I want to see if there is a bridge between my busy city life and my need to feel connected to nature. What does it mean to connect with nature in a city? Does it have the same impact as "wilder" nature? Will having more contact make a noticeable difference in my life? To broaden my conclusions I asked fourteen other people living in Vancouver if they could commit to "Accessing Nature" for 10 days straight too. They said yes.
It's on!

Monday 26 March 2012

Gary - Day 1

Well alright, I'm not much of a blogger but here goes nothing. Suppose I'll just elaborate on what I've noticed thus far.

Saturday started strong but outside of Vancouver. I took a mini road trip down to Washington state for the weekend. A friend has a cabin near the Cascade mountain range and boy were those mighty mountains something to behold. There's something very soul lifting about the combination of sun and snow. You get your vitamin D but in a non-muggy atmosphere. I guess that's something that can be found often in Vancouver if you get over to the north shore. And if while you're in that environment, in that car, Everybody's working for the weekend comes on, all the better. Man it's good to be alive!

Later that night, 'neath one of the better night skies I've seen in a while, we were able to find the Andromeda galaxy. It looked like a faint star but was really 200 billion of them. That be crazy!
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