Creative Solutions for a New World Climate & Artists Series
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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:...
We’re All In This Together… Now What? – Season 4 Finale
We’re All in This Together… Now What?, the final webinar of Creatively United’s Climate and Artists fourth season, explores how we can collectively reduce our carbon footprint by 40% by 2030 and transformatively shift to healthier…
Amplifying Youth Voices in the Fight Against Climate Change
The 10 year anniversary of Creatively United for the Planet’s first Earth Day event was celebrated with an incredible panel of youth voices that featured five young Canadian changemakers working in creative ways to help amplify youth voices…
Housing That Heals The Future – Creative Solutions for a New World
Housing That Heals the Future features nine inspiring interviews on a wide range of projects that are charting the future towards healthier, happier communities. This information rich webinar also includes the incredible new...
Coasts, Rivers and Communities
Learn how communities around the world are developing new solutions to mitigate risks by working with nature. Water is the essence of life. Rivers are the arteries of life. Coasts are the gateway to the oceans. All three ecosystems are threatened by the climate crisis — more severe droughts…
Transforming Communities Creatively Through Regeneration
Season 4 of Climate and Artists free webinar series premiered with positively uplifting and inspiring stories from eight fabulous guests committed to regenerating and transforming communities creatively. Learn how…
Enlightened Communications – Making All Voices Matter
Season 3 concluded with an all-star panel, featuring bestselling author and award-winning public relations professional, James Hoggan. A tireless advocate for ethics in public discourse and Chair of the David Suzuki…
Clean & Reliable Water Matters
Water is life. A secure and reliable supply of water is essential for all life forms. This webinar explains that water is becoming increasingly insecure and unreliable due to climate change and increased demand by a growing…
Cold Matters: Our Arctic Connection
In keeping with the “what really matters” theme, Creative Solutions for a New World Climate and the Arts Series explores how much Cold Matters in terms of the roles in which snow, ice and permafrost play in the stabilization…
Energy, Housing & Transportation Matters
Knowledge Powers Action What specific actions can we all take to lower our carbon footprint and save money? We explore answers to this question and many others. Learn practicable and achievable actions that can move us along…
Truth Matters: Media and the Science Behind Truth
Why do people reject the science of climate change; what are the consequences of accepting misinformation and what role does psychology and the media play in overcoming this resistance? This webinar features internationally…
Biodiversity Matters – Re-Imagining Forest Management
‘The spiraling decline of our planet’s biodiversity is the true tragedy of our time’ – David Attenborough from A Life on our Planet The road to carbon neutrality can only be successful if nature’s biodiversity is not only…
Re-Imagining Agriculture – Adapting to a New Climate Reality
Water required for agriculture is becoming a major concern for water and food security across the province of British Columbia. This issue will only get worse over the coming decade as the climate dries and warms….
Seeing Beyond the Obvious – Artists as Changemakers
Join three incredibly talented and well-established visual artists: Roy Henry Vickers, Roberta Pyx Sutherland and David Ellingsen for an insightful look beyond the obvious, hosted by multi-media artist Frances Litman….
Re-Imagining Cities & Waste
Attaining carbon neutrality will have a profound impact on how we design communities and deal with waste. This webinar includes a number of pioneers who are creating innovative solutions to carbon neutrality and ways to…
Re-Imagining Our Future – Charting The Way Forward
Season 3 of Creative Solutions for a New World launched January 13th, 2021 with policy experts, Bob Sandford and Jon O’Riordan, uncovering the systemic challenges to reach carbon neutrality and a review of national and local…
Where Do We Go From Here? – Season 2 Finale
Unlike COVID-19, there is no vaccine for curing the climate crisis. At best, we have to become carbon neutral by mid-century to have any chance of managing this existential threat. In this video, a panel of leading solution…
Treaty Negotiations and Ecosystem Monitoring
Learn from members of one of Canada’s leading international river basin negotiating teams how they are working to restore ecosystem health in the Canadian portion of the Columbia Basin following the damming of the River in…
US Election Results – The Impact on Canadians
Leading US political commentator and Washington DC lawyer, Mace Rosenstein, distilled the US election results. Mace was joined by Tom Axworthy, a senior policy advisor to the Canadian Federal government, and Bob Sandford…
The Call for a New Forest Framework
What’s wrong with how forestry is practised in BC today? Why are old growth forests so precious? What are the solutions and implementation timelines? Join Kathy Code, of the Ecoforestry Institute Society, and Jonathan…
The US Election from a Canadian Perspective
Washington DC lawyer, Mace Rosenstein, provided answers to the following questions: Who actually votes for the President? What is the role of the Electoral College? What are the opportunities for President Trump to game the…
Arts of Laughing, Arts of Weeping: Equipment for Earth’s Lovers
Bob Haverluck, a Manitoba artist-educator and theologian who works with community groups using the arts, especially comedy to help engage issues of violence against the earth and her creatures; and Gennadiy Ivanov, a…
Countdown TEDxBCDrawdown
This special TEDx event, co-produced by Creatively United in partnership with BC Drawdown, features an incredible line up of inspirational solutions and talks by a variety of BC climate champions, including: Seth Klein, Meg…
BC Drawdown and Countdown to Change
Many people who are concerned about the oncoming climate crisis and loss of biodiversity ask the following questions: “What can one person do? What can one community do?” These questions and others are addressed in this…
The Power of Music
Never in history have we found it as important to turn to music as a medium to inspire us to action and hope. We are in the midst of rapid transformation as we deal with the climate crisis, mass disruption of key ecosystems…
Understanding the Art and Science of Universal Consciousness
Solutions are not found in the same level of consciousness that created the problems. So how can we, as a global collective, transcend to a deeper level of individual and collective consciousness in alignment with Natural…
The Transformational Moment: What Have We Learned So Far?
Three of Canada’s foremost practitioners in reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, Merrell-Ann Phare, Michael Miltenberger, and professional planner, project manager, capacity developer and engagement…
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…
Youth for Climate and Social Justice – A Movement of Unity
This World Unity Week webinar is about the unity of the youth climate and social justice movement. The panelists are all young change makers who are invested in creating a more just and safer future for the next generations…
A Transformational Moment and Reconciliation Panel
The COVID pandemic and the global response to flattening the curve provide a once in a lifetime opportunity for the world to re-set its policies to flatten the carbon curve. This panel consists of three leading thinkers on this transformational moment.
Solutions for Indigenous and Ecosystem Based Management
The Story of the Great Bear Rainforest: Transition to Sustainability The Great Bear Rainforest is one of the largest intact temperate rainforests in the world. It stretches from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to…
The Doughnut and the New Forest Framework: The Wildwood Model
Wildwood is a 77-acre forest nestled on the shores of Quennell Lake in the Ladysmith area of Vancouver Island. The Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS) is a registered charitable society and the owners and trustees of…
Climate Change & Canada’s Water Future – Part 2
Find out why science is more important now than ever and water is the nexus of climate with two of the world’s leading scientists, Dr. John Pomeroy and Dr. Trevor Davies. Joining them is award-winning author, Bob Sandford…
A Modern Alphabet: Artfully Re-Imagining Our Future
Speaker, author, futurist, Guy Dauncey, and Creatively United founder and professional multi-media artist, Frances Litman, present A Modern Alphabet – Re-Imagining Our Future. Guy Dauncey is a futurist, anthropological…
The Art of Self Care: Building Immunity & Resilience
Learn a number of proven ways to reduce anxiety, boost your immune system and feel lighter and brighter with simple techniques provided by three professionals with many years of experience. Author, Karen Ledger, a respected…
A Call for Enhanced Water Security Cooperation in Canada – Letter to Government Decision Makers
One of the main ways we can help create the change we want to see, is to send letters and call our elected officials. The more people who do this, the better. To simplify this process, we have drafted this letter which we invite you to cut, paste and share by email and on social media by sharing this post.
Great Bear Rainforest – A Case for Managing Ecosystem Values in British Columbia
Ian McAllister is the author of a multitude of books, has been honored by the Globe and Mail as one of 133 highly accomplished Canadians, He and his wife, Karen McAllister, were named by TIME as “Leaders of the 21st Century” for their efforts to protect…
Ecoforestry: Nurturing Nature’s Ecosystems – A Call For a New Forest Framework in British Columbia
Learn from two of Vancouver Island’s leading foresters about the fascinating history of eco-forestry, its role in nurturing nature’s ecosystems and how we can protect and restore our forests as part of the climate change solution.
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….
Watch EarthFest Live Presentations
Featuring more than 25 world-class presenters
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Earth Day, Creatively United for the Planet has produced EarthFest – Creative Solutions for a New World, a free webinar series in partnership with the Gail O’Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund and the Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS).
The series features an incredible line up of world-class presenters, including nine of western Canada’s top youth climate leaders, presenting a multitude of transformational possibilities and creative solutions to inspire and move us towards healthier, happier and more resilient ways of living.
“The work you are doing is so vital and so inspiring. Thank you for giving us the platform to share.” – Simon Sharkey
“What you and your colleagues are doing is most positive” – Bob Peart
“Thanks and congratulations for the webinar and for spearheading this affirmative action. This bolsters those of us in the camp that chants for optimism as a strategy rather than just a frame of mind.” – B McMahon
“Thanks again for all the fabulous, heartening, thought-provoking and thought-expanding sessions you have put together this fall! I watched every single one of them, and look forward to seeing today’s and next year’s!”
– Monika Winn
“Thank you for the series Creative Solutions for a New World. What an inspiration!
I have been around long enough to recognize that creative initiatives like this series does not happen by chance, but rather through commitment and visionary leadership. Thank you for being willing to connect science, spirituality, the arts, Indigenous knowledge and the reality of politics in the series and, as a result, offer practical solutions that will help to influence their implementation from the local to the global. No doubt there are many involved in the creation of the series…a sincere thanks to all!
We live in interesting times indeed, that said there is a positive groundswell and interconnection occurring at the grass roots level that recognizes “business as usual” is no longer acceptable. The series addresses this timely need for new thinking and collaboration at every level, whether governance, academic, business sector, the arts, or community.” – E Bonham
“Really great shows. All very interesting guests with contagious energy. Thanks a lot! Especially nice to see ideas actually manifested, so we know it can be, and is being, done!” – Louise M.
“This series is PHENOMENAL! Thank you SO much! I can hardly wait to share some of them with others!” – Ian G.
“What a wonderful celebration of speakers! Very enlightening as I have more to ponder on what I heard. Glad it was recorded so I can go back and listen again. It was produced very well! THANK YOU.” – Tracey M.
“Well done! I enjoyed the passion of the youth and it felt optimistic because of their grasp and articulation of issues/consequences. Historically, it’s always been the young that transform the world. Thanks for giving them a platform.”
– Lisa J.
“I am enjoying your series immensely. What a privilege to hear these amazing people.” – Marina S
“Can it get any better than this?! I’m in tears and blown away by these shows.” – Lorna R.
“What an inspiring and refreshing program you had yesterday with Ann Mortifee! So many fascinating connections with universal rhythms. I’m certainly looking forward to this new series. Your work is wonderfully medicinal and therapeutic for us all. We need these expanded positive energies in our views of the world and connections with Earth if we are to truly arrive at the full range of sustainable human values and possibilities. Thank you again for all you’re doing! I’m staying tuned!” – Raymond
“Amazing, stupendous, inspiring, words fail me! You did a fabulous job of arranging all the speakers and facilitating the webinars. I’m sure you did lots of behind the scenes work to make sure each presenter was ready to go. Well done!” – Julia G.
Our Partners
The Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund, supported by The Victoria Foundation, is dedicated to changing human consciousness towards global environmental change by combining science with the creativity of the performing arts.
Creatively United for the Planet Society and Climate and the Arts also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Polis Foundation.
