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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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What is a ‘well-being society’? For starters, one that values planet Earth
In the more than 40 years I have spent working in public health, I have been guided by a key realization and two principles. The realization was that medicine, in which I was trained, while important, is not the main factor that contributes to good health.
Summary Synthesis of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
I am now of the view that the scientifically validated discovery of nonhuman sentience and intelligence in the natural world offers the greatest potential for transformation in natural and cultural interpretation and education since the rise of the ecological movement…
Hope for Ecosystems
I have recently come across a new source of information, inspiration, and opportunity to act. Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is a relatively new non-profit environmental group. They have just been granted charitable tax status. The executive director is Ken Wu. One of the science advisors is Andy MacKinnon. To me, those participants signal knowledge, integrity, courage, and smart ideas.
New Poet Laureate Launches Legacy Project
Congratulations to Vancouver’s sixth and Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam. Fiona has been a guest on CreativelyUnited.org Climate & Artists Series free webinars. She just launched a new competition for young, emerging and established wordsmiths as her legacy…
Teal Jones Timber Review Period Open
Here’s your chance to review Teal Jone’s timber analysis and management plan for Timber Forest License #46 (Fairy Creek) and submit your feedback. Teal Jones would like you to send your comments directly to them, however, please copy to…
Health Requires A Well-Being Society
Even here in Canada, there are dramatic inequalities in health. A 2018 report from the Public Health Agency of Canada found a 4.1-year gap in life expectancy between those living in high- versus low-income neighbourhoods, and around 11- to 12-year gaps between areas with high or low concentrations of Inuit or First Nations people.
Section of Bowker Creek for Sale
On January 24, 2020, School District 61 Trustees will be deciding on the sale of a parcel of 1.9 acres of publicly-owned land and section of Bowker Creek at Lansdowne South (previously Richmond Elementary School) We have been told that the number of emails the School…
Cell Towers on the Ocean Floor
In 2018, on land and in space, preparations to deploy millions of antennas were very publicly being made and advertised, for “5G,” “Smart Cities,” and the “Internet of Things.” At the same time, and without any publicity, governments, research laboratories, and commercial and military interests were collaborating on plans to create “Smart Oceans” and the “Internet of Underwater Things” (IoUT).
Fairy Creek Winter Fundraisers
Every dollar donated will directly support: ★ Physical needs for people still at camps, ★ Reimbursements for lost, stolen, and damaged property, ★ Direct support for frontline defenders healing from violent arrests and trauma
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Don’t Look Up Film Review
With more than 80 million views since its release on December 24th, the film Don’t Look Up has become one of the top three films ever shown on Netflix. It is a brilliant parody on our inability as a global community to focus on an immediate existential threat to…
Summary Synthesis of Finding the Mother Tree
I have been struggling since the beginning of the pandemic to find meaning in, and to give value to this transformational moment in the human journey. At last, after many months, I have got as far as an outline, at least, for a personal approach to dealing with the accelerating…
