–Plan International Canada With dire warnings from UN Secretary General Guterres that time is running out to turn around the catastrophic impacts of climate change, a powerful strategy to both mitigate climate change risks and help communities adapt is being … Continue reading →
–Transition Sooke Last year the world received the dire warning that we have, at best, 12 years to drastically reduce carbon emissions. A climate emergency was declared in Sooke and across Canada. But what can we actually do to slow … Continue reading →
Climate Accountability Institute is releasing a new dataset quantifying how much each of the largest oil, natural gas, and coal companies has contributed to the climate crisis since 1965. We find that the Top Twenty companies have collectively contributed 480 … Continue reading →
The following videos and gallery are from Sooke PocketNews youth correspondent Ariah. Photo Gallery Featured Videos From Social Media Large crowds heading to #ClimateStrike have police directing traffic at Spring Garden Rd. intersection. People of all ages are packed into … Continue reading →
GENEVA, Aug 8 – Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from … Continue reading →
In advance of Canada Parks Day, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is welcoming Canada’s efforts to meet our 2020 land protection commitments and urging the federal government to champion ambitious, evidence-based conservation targets for the next decade that … Continue reading →
New research highlights state of local adaptation planning in Canada Extreme forest fires, urban flooding and severe storms make frequent headlines across Canada as these events become more prominent and destructive. Estimated to cost Canadian communities $5 billion a year … Continue reading →
–Mick Rhodes This past Saturday I joined about seventy folk attending Transition Sooke’s town hall meeting to discuss The Pact For a Green New Deal, a budding national movement. There was an enthusiastic response by the attendees as to what … Continue reading →
In May and June across Canada, people from all walks of life have been coming together in community-led town hall events to help shape a vision for our immediate future. A Green New Deal for all. Sooke will be holding … Continue reading →
Background: The federal government has just announced that they have again approved the trans mountain pipeline project. Response from the traditional and unceded territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ/sel̓ílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)- June 18, 2019 In spite of today’s … Continue reading →
