Community Stories
Nature Activities and Climate Solutions Resources for Busy Parents, Educators and Nature Lovers
This free downloadable e-book for parents of children age 0 – 12, is filled with creative activities, practical tips, nature activities and climate friendly solutions. It will spark environmental awareness, foster nature stewardship and make sustainable habits a part…
National Food Security? Not Without a Healthy Diet
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization describes an agri-food system as encompassing everything from “field to fork.” Unfortunately, Canada’s new National Food Security Strategy fails to pay much attention to either the field or the fork end of the system.
Send a Wake-up Call to the Forest Practices Board
The BC Forest Practices Board calls itself “BC’s independent watchdog for sound forest and range practices”. The Board is the BC public’s only avenue for holding logging companies and the government accountable when either transgress a narrow range of forest-related…
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Youth Leadership In Action
Our names are Franny and Rupert. We are nine and twelve years old. We are environmental rights advocates who work with the Blue Dot movement. We believe that every Canadian has the right to clean water, healthy good, clean air and access to nature.
20 Tips To Organise Your Neighbourhood Hot Soup Event
20 tips to organise a soup event in your home as a way to get to know your neighbours. As a result of our efforts, I currently know the names of at least 100 of my neighbours in Victoria and had lots of benefits as a result.
GE Free Victoria passed. Unanimous
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
– William C Bryant
First of all, I was inspired by a quote from Robyn O’Brien. The gestalt was “Keep speaking, even when you’re trembling.” I was trembling.
The Ancient Forest Alliance
The documentary, directed by filmmaker Darryl Augustine, features an overview of the history of the Ancient Forest Alliance, spectacular images of BC’s old-growth forests, and interviews of local leaders.
HeroWork – Leadership In Action
HeroWork is fastly becoming a household name in Victoria with the many Radical Renovation projects founder Paul Latour has completed with his community-styled events that are akin to a modern day barn raising “where dozens of companies and hundreds of volunteers come together with exceptional cooperation and common vision.”
Saltspring Islanders Leading the Way
80 electric cars on Saltspring Island equals 290 tonnes of Green House Gasses no longer emitted per year and 7466 litres of fuel per month no longer shipped to the island!
A Little Forward Thinking
True leadership is seeing beyond the obvious in both business and personal endevours. Finding a way of taking what you do to for the betterment of all to a larger audience. It is the way of finding a better path than already exists.
Environmentally Aligned
It’s about putting our egos aside and uniting with wisdom and compassion in solidarity to resist all forms of oppression, to overcome the potentially catastrophic challenges of our age and to liberate one another so all beings may live in harmony.
A Leader Is Someone That Other People Follow
Our rapidly developing understanding of mirror neurons means that we are all leaders. Yes me. Yes you.
Leading by Example
Article Courtesy of the District of Saanich Leading by Example Saanich’s pledge to take action on sustainability and climate change was first embedded into the Official Community Plan in 2008 and then the Saanich Climate Action mitigation and adaptation plans in 2010….
The Power of Community
Having recently attended the Harnessing the Power of Community for Change workshop, jointly sponsored by the newly formed Greater Victoria Acting Together for The Common Good and LeadershipVictoria, I left inspired knowing there is a local group providing training to…
Journey To The Future
In futurist Guy Dauncey’s inspiring and timely novel, 24-year-old Patrick Wu journeys to a future world brimming with innovation and hope, where the climate crisis is being tackled, the solar revolution is underway, and a new economy is taking shape.
