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Transition Cowichan - working to build local community resilience in the Cowichan Valley in response to climate change https://www.facebook.com/TransitionCowichan
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Soil blocking is an environmentally friendly method to prep seedlings. The technique has captured the attention of serious gardeners who'd like to make their growing more sustainable.
What's soil blocking? This seeding method helps gardeners use less plastic and peat
Soil blocking is an environmentally friendly method to prep seedlings. The technique has captured the attention of serious gardeners who'd like to make their growing more sustainable.
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March 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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What Earth Supplies and What We Need: Carrying Capacity as a Guide for Regional and Planetary Governance and Sustainability
Sooner or later, sovereign nations must confer technological and political power to planetary institutions beyond their political borders, while devolving economic power to the bioregional and local communities within their state boundaries
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March 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Free Event: Acceptance & Agency at the End of Modernity

Join Vanessa Andreotti and Dougald Hine for a free, online conversation exploring consequences of modernity, the implications of its decline, how we hospice what is dying, and give care to what may emerge.

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February 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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It's the time of year when I see articles telling folks to put pet fur out for bird nesting. The Cornell ornithology lab does not recommend this! Flea/tick treatments & shampoos can be toxic, long fur can entangle chicks, etc. There are much better alternatives: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/providi...
Providing Nest Material for Birds: Dos & Don'ts
Rufous Hummingbird by Penny Hall/Birdshare. Most birds build some kind of structure to contain their eggs and nestlings. A bird's nest may be as simple as a nighthawk's or Killdeer's depression on ...
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March 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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On the need for radical honesty
The climate crisis is not only an extreme case of a collective challenge, but also an extremely complex one. Conventional notions of expertise and specialisation are therefore failing. The essence of radical honesty is to recognise this failure of our…
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February 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Just Plant Trees? It’s Not So Simple
A self-sustaining forest ecosystem includes not just a mix of trees but the understory of smaller trees, shrubs and groundcover plants, the animals, the soil and its biota, and all the dead matter lying on the forest floor.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Reviving Native Food Sovereignty
These projects and many others like them are quite literally weaving traditional knowledge, culture, and Native values more deeply into these villages and communities across Southeast Alaska.
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March 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The Serviceberry: this Indigenous understanding of nature can help us rethink economics
Ultimately, The Serviceberry is a hopeful book. It offers a way out of what Kimmerer calls a “cannibal economy”, where endless consumption depletes the world around us. Instead, she imagines a system where resources circulate through communities, creating…
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November 20, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Organic Farming Increases Soil Carbon and Helps Counter Climate Change
However, while organic food is sometimes hard to find and more expensive, it is a relatively simple step that many of us can incorporate into our daily lives, providing a crucial opportunity to help mitigate climate change.
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December 5, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Join us for this free, online event about addressing the disappearance of wild nature on Feb 13, 2025.

Guests Lesley Hughes and Doug Tallamy will share fresh takes on big picture and on-the-ground solutions.

Get all the details and register here: bit.ly/wildthingsev...
January 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Simplicity and Complexity
But getting back to the matter of simplicity and complexity… the simpler, the more localized and embedded your life, the deeper and more extensive your relationships are.
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January 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Putting Nature at the Center
Is it too late to save biodiversity and the living Earth? In this article I’ll argue that only a collective effort to put wild nature at the center of our priorities will prevent its devastation and the possible disappearance of our own species, among…
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February 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Check out this excerpt from our new book, Transformative Adaptation - Another world is still just possible. Shared by @resilience.org.

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Transformative Adaptation: Excerpt
Transformative Adaptation is transformative because it is the route to system change. It requires willingness to undertake major psychological adjustments away from what has been ‘normal’.
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February 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The @duncanfarmers.bsky.social and other markets around B.C. are fighting to keep a program alive that helps feed lower income families, seniors and pregnant people struggling with the rising cost of living and food insecurity.
Duncan farmers and market call on province to continue funding food security program
Losing the food security program could take money away from communities and farmers, according to Duncan Farmers’ Market executive director.
thediscourse.ca
January 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM