Community Stories
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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Lessons from Pandemics
“ Pandemic-Resilient Community Planning: Practical Ways to Help Communities Prepare for, Respond to, and Recover from Pandemics and Other Economic, Social and Environmental Shocks ” Resilience refers to a system’s ability to efficiently absorb shocks. This report…
Wolves: The Takaya Legacy
Takaya led a remarkable life for a wolf. His adventuresome spirit brought him to an unlikely place. His calm demeanour, fabulous good looks, resilience and intelligence brought him fame. For many years he lived alone on Discovery Island, off Victoria, until he swam…
Is social distancing really the best new norm we can come up with?
Until we choose to reconnect with the nature within us, we will perpetuate an inhospitable environment for ourselves.
Orca Month 2020
Orca Awareness Month 2020 (June) will be a spontaneous upsurge of creativity spreading the “help whales” message in a time of physical-distancing. We can’t have talks & meetings so will do public art displays. 73 remaining SRKWs have never needed us more.
Solid Waste, Air, and Water Pollution
I’m teaching CIVE 410 Solid Waste, Air, and Water Pollution this summer. I am hoping to connect to people working in solid waste, air, and water pollution who may be interested in sharing a short presentation about their work experience with the students.
Ecological and Spiritual Regeneration
Ann Mortifee is an inspirational leader in both the environment and the arts. She is Canada’s National Performing Treasure, a recipient of the Order of Canada, beloved by thousands for her penetrating wisdom and humanity….
Review: Moore’s “Planet of the Humans”
This poorly researched film suggested that reliance on solar & renewable energy is impossible. This is nonsense. When I lived in the North Island of New Zealand 47 years ago it already was almost 100% reliant on renewable energy. I quit watching the film after 30 minutes.
Donald Trump’s Crime Against Humanity
In cutting funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of a pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump may think he is attacking a bunch of faceless bureaucrats in Geneva and the World Health Organization’s regional offices around the world.
Time Sensitive! Stop 5G protest, please join
This Saturday, April 25, is the Global Stop 5G Day and I am hoping that you will participate. What we need to do is to make our politicians at every level hear our voices. Instructions; Copy, paste and fill out this non consent form then Fax individually to Justin…
Kindness to Trees in Uplands Park
The classes at Ecole Willows Elementary have been restoring a very unhealthy area in Uplands Park for the past 4 years. It was an area ploughed in the 1850’s to create part of Uplands Farm growing non-native agrarian grasses to feed the cattle. By 2016, there were…
Earth Day 2020
I am fired up and inspired this Earth Day! Why?
This 50th Anniversary for Earth Day, in this pause in our ‘normal’ we have the space to reconnect to what matters and to envision, imagine and create our new way forward.
Horizontal Governing, the Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical, Top-Down Corruption
A video and an animation that explains horizontal governing. video is for a large earthday event.
