PostedFeb 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, opinion
Prepared by Ross Thrasher In Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press, 2022) Andrew Dana Hudson has written an intriguing quintet of stories based on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report of 2021. Using a futurist technique called...
PostedFeb 16, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, sustainability
Developed by the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance, the BC Climate Vulnerability Map enables the user to assess the susceptibility or vulnerability of their BC community to the impacts of climate change. Access the BC Climate Vulnerability Map here. Climate...
PostedFeb 3, 2024 | climate change, community, Education, sustainability
With GTEC Executive Director Arden Henley March 12, 12 – 2:30 pm Appreciation The Green Technology Education Centre (GTEC) would like to extend its appreciation for the work that the VanCity Community Foundation and the organizations that are connected to it do every...
PostedFeb 1, 2024 | Arts & Culture, climate change, community, lifestyle, Youth
Art in Climate Stories Solastalgia recently hosted a successful poetry-writing event in January to explore feelings and experiences with the climate crisis. Their next series of events is Solastalgia Story Circle: Art in Climate Stories, starting Sunday February 4 at...
PostedJan 11, 2024 | Arts & Culture, climate change, community, lifestyle, Youth
Moving Beyond Despair about the Climate Crisis: Engaging Emotions Through Poetry Solastalgia is a Vancouver youth-led community initiative that focuses on eco-anxiety and climate justice through arts-based events. Their next event, Moving Beyond Despair about the...
PostedJan 2, 2024 | climate change, international news, news, sustainability
It was tenuous, unclear until the last moment, but at COP 28 in Dubai the world crossed a critical threshold. Delegates at this conference, some 90,000 in all, agreed that the world must transition away from fossil fuels “in our energy systems, beginning in this...