instead of Uggs, mukluk boots

[shootingstar]

shootingstar…do you know if the Nutrition North Canada program is helping much with the fresh and dried fruits and vegetables in those area’s? Do you know if the greenhouse is being funded by them?

I have no idea.

Here is a Canadian lawyer who lives in Iqualuit, capital city (town) for Nunavut on Baffin Island in the far Arctic on food pricing, both fair and gouging: http://sybaritica.me/2012/09/07/nuna...esee-papatsie/

(I like reading blogs of the lawyers who serve in legal aid for the locals in those communities....strong advocacy and passion for the locals and situation up there.)

[rebeccaC]

I have no idea.

Here is a Canadian lawyer who lives in Iqualuit, capital city (town) for Nunavut on Baffin Island in the far Arctic on food pricing, both fair and gouging: http://sybaritica.me/2012/09/07/nuna...esee-papatsie/

(I like reading blogs of the lawyers who serve in legal aid for the locals in those communities....strong advocacy and passion for the locals and situation up there.)

One of the focuses of the Nutrition North Canada program is to get fresh and dried fruits and fresh and frozen vegetables to the isolated northern communities at lower costs for the consumer. Your first linked article talked about a lower cost for those things now in those areas so I assume it’s helping. Hopefully the corporate greed in the subsided program (more about it in your first link than this link) can be corrected and costs lowered even more for the people of those isolated areas.

I looked into the Iqaluit greenhouse and it seems to be a community effort with help from the Nunavut government and the Cold Climate Innovation program at Yukon College. That greenhouse has been around for 6 years now and so far has been replicated in two other communities.

Hopefully this all will mean more nutritious and varied meals with produce most of the year for the people in those isolated areas.

[OakLeaf]

I guess I have a hard time understanding why that's any different from sucking water out of the Colorado River to irrigate the US desert.

Certain foods are in season in certain places. Certain places will support larger human population densities than others. When large human populations move to relatively barren areas and expect out-of-season foods to be shipped in, or grown locally at huge energy costs, that just isn't sustainable ... It's no more reasonable to expect asparagus in Ohio in August, than it is to expect broccoli in the Yukon in May...

[rebeccaC]

It’s not like a lot of people are moving to the Northern Canada area. Iqaluit is the capital of Nunavut and has 6000 or so people. The Nunavut territory is about the size of Western Europe and has around 30,000 people, mostly Inuit.

Btw…the greenhouses that the Cold Climate Innovation program are involved with in the territory are completely solar powered.

[OakLeaf]

But that's just what I meant. Sure, to someone who lives in fertile, water-rich Appalachia, that sounds like hardly any people at all. But if it's more than the land and climate will support, it's more than the land and climate will support, whether that's 600 or 6,000,000.