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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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‘Salmon Parks’ in Traditional First Nations Territory Aim to Save Habitats by Stopping Old-Growth Logging
Backed by a $15.2-million commitment from the federal government, a First Nations community on the west coast of Vancouver Island intends to buy out forestry tenures to stop old-growth logging in selected watersheds around Nootka Sound.
What To Watch, Read, & Listen To – Climate Action and COP28
WHAT IS COP28? COP is attended by industry stakeholders, politicians, researchers and scholars, Indigenous stakeholders, NGOs and other members of civil society. However, these groups are not given the same representation and privileges at COP events and negotiations….
Ecological Footprint Doesn’t Include Impact of Methane, Loss of Biodiversity
mportant though the ecological footprint is, the way it is calculated means the estimate that Saanich’s ecological footprint is equivalent to four planets is an underestimate. That is because a lot of different activities — energy use, food growing, materials for buildings, modes of transportation, waste disposal…
Petition Calling on BC Transit & Translink to Ban Fossil Fuel Advertisements from Vehicles
“Leadnow supporter Peter started a petition calling on BC Transit and Translink to ban fossil fuel advertisements from their buses and trains. Will you sign now to tell BC Transit and Translink to stop these greenwashing ads from plastering our cities? ” There’s even…
Public Narrative Managed by Marketing Firm
I just finished a stellar expose of the world’s most powerful global consulting firm with claims to be the most prestigious – McKinsey and Company. The book, When McKinsey Comes to Town, by New York Times journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, is a…
Reasons for Buying Food that is Local, Regenerative, and in Season
Please don’t shoot the messenger! There is a lot of supporting information that we need to know! I do not want to overwhelm you, with more information yet I feel that this information is some of what we need to know, so we will have the knowledge to be motivated to do…
Integrated Resource Management in the CRD: A Progress Report
In 2018, the CRD established an Integrated Resource Management (IRM) committee and issued a Request for Proposals from practitioners to apply the approach to waste management throughout the Region. Despite receiving many valuable proposals, the CRD Board cancelled the…
Remembrance Day For Refugees
A call to care ever more deeply, widely. To see the interelated critical issues facing the world: Seven young activists who refuse to remain silent and inactive. A call for all of us to support them in their passions.
Good Eats
I recently attended an online Saturday Solutions Session hosted by two of Creatively United’s board members, Sandi Goldie and Jim Bronson, who now reside in an intentional, low carbon footprint community in Oregon. I learned of this website from one of the…
Non-Profits Save Big with Fee-Free Service
Do you know of a non-profit organization that could use a break when it comes to credit card, event and donation fees? Creatively United has saved a small fortune in these types of fees thanks to a wonderful service we discovered called Zeffy. Zeffy is the only…
Digging into our Transportation, Building and Consumables Footprint
I looked at our food consumption and associated food waste, which at 24 per cent is the largest share of the ecological footprint (setting aside the 46 per cent of the ecological footprint that is due to the local activities of the provincial and federal governments)…
How To Address Climate Change Impactfully at Your Local Level
Thank you to everyone who recently came out in support in person and online (watch here, starting at 42:22) to learn how individuals and community groups can speak to their neighbours and local governments about impactful and proven solutions to addressing climate…
