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Saanich DRAFT 2026 Climate Plan Phase 2 Engagement Survey – Have Your Say!
The District of Saanich is inviting residents to read the DRAFT 2026 Climate Plan Update and share feedback before the final plan goes to Council. The DRAFT 2026 Climate Plan is an update to our existing 2020 Climate Plan and has been informed by extensive research,…
‘Fairy Creek’ – Documentary
A new feature film documenting the unprecedented campaign of civil disobedience on Vancouver Island, and some of the disturbing police tactics it unleashed. –Knowledge Network Watch here
No Taxpayer Money for American LNG!
Nearly 5,000 people have sent letters to the board members of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, demanding they vote no on a massive public loan for Ksi Lisims LNG. This Wall Street scheme can’t survive without public money. Add your voice, and urge them to hold the…
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We need to get over our obsession with the economy
I recently came across an eloquent and powerful passage by Carl Sagan, the famed cosmologist, written in response to an image of Earth taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, from beyond the planet Neptune. The Earth was just a pale blue dot, which inspired the title of his 1994 book from which the following passage is quoted. Sagan wrote: “You see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us…
Protecting Nature in Cities: A Matter of Survival – Webinar Replay
Protecting Nature in Cities with Indigenous Wisdom, Creativity and Science Presented by the Community Trees Matter Network, CreativelyUnited.org, and Programs in Earth Literacies Links & Resources Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action:…
Population growth is only part of the problem
In last week’s column, I discussed the findings of the recent report from Earth4All concerning population growth. Judging by several thoughtful and concerned responses from readers, I fear I did not do a great job, so I will revisit the report’s ideas and, I hope, somewhat clarify what is a complex issue and argument.
A Local Guide To Participating in Earth Week
Highlighting actions and events related to art, nature, and social justice happening in Victoria, in BC and remotely! Check out the events below and browse the Community Events Calendar for more! What is Earth Week? • The first Earth Day, inspired by protests of the…
Move the dial on biodiversity at your city council!
This is a key moment for us to ensure the many plants and animals that call B.C. home can thrive. And you can help! Local governments have the power to adopt or amend bylaws that support greater biodiversity, and it is up to us residents to urge them to take action….
It’s not population growth but inequality that’s the problem
Whenever I write about the problems of economic growth and our ecological footprint, I get emails asking why I don’t also address population growth. The short answer is that I have, on several occasions. The longer answer, as I wrote in a July 2018 column on this topic, is that the issue is complex, and the solution not just a matter of family planning.
B.C. timber industry in throes of change, as premier warns of ‘exhausted forests’
Courtesy of the CBC Photo: A timber operation in the Cariboo. B.C. passed amendments to modernize forestry legislation last year, including laying the groundwork for a new system of 10-year forest landscape plans to be developed in partnership with First Nations….
Creatively United Earth Day Events
Special Film Preview Creatively United for the Planet, in partnership with Climate and the Arts, presents the special Earth Day preview of our newest film, Changing Course: A River’s Journey of Reconnection . This 60-minute documentary features stunning footage by…
Help Preserve Old Growth Forests for the Threatened Marbled Murrelet
Help prevent the extinction of the marbled murrelet. Act now by signing the petition.
How Can We Stop The Looming Climate Disaster?
So much has been written about the urgency of the looming climate disaster that I’ll skip straight to the solutions. I am a climate alarmist, just as Churchill was a Nazi alarmist in the 1930s. But I am not a climate doomer. I am of one mind with Paul Hawken, author…
Important Tree Resources
Government + Mayor & Councillor Contacts https://creativelyunited.org/mayor-councillor-contacts/ Trees Matter Toolkit https://creativelyunited.org/community-trees-matter-network/toolkit/ More tree items from Solutions…
A Deeper Exploration of Our Ecological Footprint
Given that we only have one planet, we need to live within the carrying capacity of the global ecosystem that is Earth. Yet as I noted last week, Canada’s ecological footprint per person is equivalent to using 5.1 planet’s worth of biocapacity and natural resources every year.
