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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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Fairy Creek Update
The blockades are still up at Fairy Creek, one of the last remaining unlogged old growth valleys and watersheds in southern BC. One of our camps now has an Elder tent and Elder Bill Jones, spent the night on the blockade on his land the other night. We are meeting to…
The Four Horsemen of Ecology: Regulating Population Size
According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are conquest, war, famine and death, while in the Old Testament’s Book of Ezekiel they are sword, famine, wild beasts and pestilence or plague. (Sometimes, apparently, conquest is interpreted as pestilence or plague.)
Ecocide Petition Timely
Here is a petition submitted by New Brunswick Green MP, Jenica Atwin, for the federal government to declare its support for an amendment to the Rome Statute to include ecocide as a crime (alongside war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, the crime of…
Making Connections
As the smoke from the fires decimating the entire west coast of the US is stinging my eyes, I am reflecting on 2020. We have learned, at the very least, that we are highly adaptable. Snow and flooding to start the year? We’ve seen that before, and we can overcome. A…
Season Two Launch: The Barn’s Burnt Down
Award-winning author and philosopher, Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore, launches Season Two of Creative Solutions for a New World – Climate and Artist Series with an inspiring and creative presentation, entitled The Barns Burnt Down…
Celebrate With Trees – Planting Parties & Celebrations
Do celebrations such as birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries immediately turn your thoughts to the need to buy a gift or hand-out a wish list? As my 70th birthday approached in the spring of 2019, I started looking for a gift idea that would benefit our Mother…
New Community Mural on Fifth Street
Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition is proud to unveil a brand new community mural at their new office on Hillside Avenue and Fifth Street! Painting the mural was a community collaboration, with mural artist Kay Gallivan timing the painting of the mural to coincide…
Stop Using Taxpayers’ Money to Fund Pollution
In May, The World Health Organization released its “Manifesto for a healthy and green COVID-19 recovery.” It is in many ways an astonishing document, because it speaks briefly and plainly to the many global problems we face and how we need to respond.
World Premiere of Awaken
Although we took a hiatus from our webinar series this summer, we didn’t take a break from standing up for our precious trees and forests. In addition to calling on our government for a New Forest Framework and reminding local governments of the importance of…
Humans Are Deeply Connected With Each Other, and Other Life Forms
Following my reflections last week on Jeremy Lent’s ideas about connections, I found myself musing about beginnings and endings – my own, life on Earth and the universe – and the connections they imply. I thought about and partly wrote this column while sitting under the great trees in Heritage Grove in Francis-King Park, feeling both connected to and in awe of nature.
Parking in Your Town: On Street Management
Learn about how your place works to keep taxes high and takes opportunities away from property owners across the Greater Victoria area. This is the first of four articles on the seemingly bland subject of parking. And yet, parking policy matters to preventing urban sprawl, and making driving not the convention.
Making Connections, Finding Balance
In his 2017 book The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy Lent suggests there are three forms of disconnection that lie at the heart of the global challenges we are creating and that are “inexorably leading human civilization to potential disaster.”
