Community Stories
Request Your Participation in Supporting CRD Biochar Incinerator Facility
We are requesting your support to encourage the (CRD) Capital Regional District, to move ahead with plans for purchase of a thermal conversion biochar facility. It would be incredibly useful to have Nanaimo and the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) send letters of…
It’s Not Just the Ecosystem; Our Economy is Socially Unfit, Too
Last week, I discussed a couple of recent global-level reports that identify serious problems with our current economic system. In particular, the UN Environment Programme, in its 2026 report…
The World’s 280 Million Electric Bikes & Mopeds Are Cutting Demand for Oil Far More Than Electric Cars
We hop in the car to get groceries or drop kids at school. But while the car is convenient, these short trips add up in terms of emissions, pollution and petrol cost. Close to half (44%) of all Australian commuter trips are by car – and under 10km. Of Perth’s 4.2…
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Canada Could Learn From Nordic Countries About Well-being
What can Canada learn from other countries about achieving well-being, happiness and a good quality of life? As the 2023 World Happiness Report noted, people “increasingly think of well-being as the ultimate good,” and…
B.C.’s Environmental Laws Are Key Public Infrastructure, Not Mere Red Tape
Courtesy of Vancouver Sun Photo: The powers in Bill 15 are akin to a blank cheque for current and future cabinets to rewrite publicly debated and enacted environmental laws in the name of removing so-called red tape, write Andhra Azevedo and Deborah Curran. Photo by…
Cacao & The Fire Spirit
Cacao is a powerful way to produce nitric oxide and increase its ability to exert its effects on our body and mind.
New Youth Climate Podcast
Greetings friends, Claire here, the Social Media and Community Manager at The Starfish (a youth climate charity dedicated to celebrating and lifting the voices of Canada’s top youth environmentalists). We recently got funding to produce an eight-episode long…
Walter Russell – Revelations Reimagined
This article was submitted, but not written by, Jon Sun Tan. The original author is unknown. In May 1921, American polymath Walter Russell entered a 39-day coma-like state, during which he claimed to have accessed “the source of all knowledge.” Upon awakening, he…
Forest Ecosystem Improvement in China
I think you’ll enjoy this story on how China is improving its monoculture forest ecosystem in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The program cost $150 million. If BC just stopped allowing old growth forests to be mowed down, we would achieve a better result…
Major Media Columnists are Calling for Proportional Representation
Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne took questions and advocated for proportional representation. You can also read Coyne’s recent column in the Globe and Mail, “Canada is not as divided as some claim – or as its electoral system makes it…
Gene Miller: Turn Centennial Square Into A World-class Park With Sequoia, Fountain
Gene Miller is the only person we can think of who could write such a biting, funny and true article about what it would mean to Victorians if the city goes ahead with cutting down this beloved tree. “It’s worth wondering how our electeds and our urban design…
Know Thy Soul
All psychedelics help to expand our consciousness by connecting us to our subconscious and unconscious mind and none more powerfully than that of E-DMT (endogenous DMT), as it facilitates our deepest shadow-work by degree.
Indivisible
This film is a must see: Watch Bad Faith (2024) – Free Movies | Tubi The good news is there’s hope with an organization called www.Indivisible.org, including a local Kauai chapter Indivisible Kaua’i
Most of the World’s Population Wants Stronger Climate Action
They just don’t realize that they are a majority. The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change The Guardian US is launching a year-long…
To Know Thyself By Heart
When we feel coherent emotions, like those of unconditional love and gratitude, our oscillating heart of gold creates a low coherent frequency. In-so-doing, our aura expands its resonant magnetism to draw in immense cosmic energy.
