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What's a responsible seafood lover to do? On the one hand, environmentalists caution that the world's oceans have been massively over-fished. But fish farming, a large and growing industry in B.C., has been dogged with controversy.

LOCAL businesses and government on the North Shore are eager to start moving forward with electric vehicles - they just need automakers to catch up.

ZEN JAPANESE RESTAURANT With an elemental dependence on ingredients from the sea, it makes sense that purveyors of Japanese cuisine would want to take care of the ocean.

- Expressive Modern, by Amy Lau, The Monacelli Press, 216 pages, $60. LOOKING at the photographs of homes that interior designer Amy Lau has worked on is to witness a study in precision.

Baby Storytime: Free dropin for children ages two and younger, Thursdays, 10: 15-10: 45 a.m. at the North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. Info: www.nvcl. ca.

The story is local at one North Shore food retailer.

As a wine region, Chile already enjoys a built-in culture of sustainability, thanks in great part to its natural geographic isolation.

Thanks to an upstart coffee microroaster, when the masses at the Vancouver Convention Centre get their daily jolt, it's organic and fair-trade. Since 2010, North Vancouver's Moja Coffee has been the exclusive supplier to the VCC.

OCTOPUS One way to avoid the depletion of our favourite fish from the sea is to include less popular marine creatures on the menu; the squishy, spiny and tentacled beasts that seem more scary than succulent.

The advance of our food scene from its once uninspired doldrums to its current position as one of the most diverse and attractive in the world has been staggeringly quick.