BLOGGING THE CONSERVATION ECONOMY
March 03, 2010The day of the opening ceremonies to the 2010 Olympics, I painted a big and bold sign that said, "5 Rings Shackle Us to Debt" and headed downtown to join the 'welcoming' 2010 protest march, along with many aboriginal activists from the Resist 2010 movement, and other anti-Olympics demonstrators.
February 22, 2010The 51st All Native Basketball Tournament (ANBT) was a week of excitement, inspiration, learning, and great basketball. As the largest annual gathering of First Nations in Prince Rupert, it welcomed the young and old to celebrate sport, culture, and friendship.
February 16, 2010Last week, Hesquiaht elder Dolores Bayne and I set out on a journey that would carry the ancestral teachings of the Hesquiaht Nation across the country. We travelled to Ottawa to present at the annual meeting of the Food Security Reference Group.
February 01, 2010Some big ideas and powerful partnerships are coming out of Ecotrust Canada’s small Clayoquot office on the Tofino dock.
January 19, 2010“They are going full-bore," says Mike Hicks, Juan de Fuca electoral area director. "They are logging the heck out of it."
January 19, 2010It seems to matter not whether you arrive at Shanghai’s Pudong airport at sunset, or depart at sunrise. At either end of the day, and for most of the time in between, you can barely see anything, thanks to the pall of pollution that clings to the city and its, um, environs.
January 18, 2010
Brian Moore Log Homes is the first log home builder in British Columbia to receive an FSC chain-of-custody certificateForestry Project Manager Orrin Quinn was busy in 2009, adding 12 new BC businesses to Ecotrust Canada’s FSC Chain-of-Custody Certification Group.
January 11, 2010Ecotrust Canada is pleased to introduce Devlin Fernandes who, as of January 18th, will staff our new Prince Rupert office. Devlin has a Masters in Forest Conservation and experience in natural resource management and analysis, community consultation, and legislation analysis.
November 27, 2009One of the great guilty pleasures of visiting Australia is to be able to witness, at close quarters, how a sports-obsessed nation engages in its bloodiest, most bone-crunching and belligerent competitive pursuit. No, not rugby, not Aussie Rules, but federal politics.
November 19, 2009Two shocking revelations from Western Australia this week, both involving Freddo frogs. A Freddo frog is a small, frog-shaped, foil-wrapped chocolate bar that has been standard fare in any Aussie kid’s sugar inventory for decades.
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