News Releases 2008
- December 22, 2008
If it had anything to do with the environment, Jim Fulton would have had something to say about it — and usually in a colourful fashion.
- November 24, 2008
Canadian home improvement giant Rona Inc. has adopted a tough new lumber-buying policy that Greenpeace says is going to change the way suppliers log Canada's forests.
- November 18, 2008
First Nations are increasingly using geographical information systems and other cutting-edge mapping technologies as tools in land-use negotiations with government and business
- November 17, 2008
Dr. Buzz Holling, a member of the Ecotrust Canada board of directors, is an award-winning ecologist who pioneered theories and research on the resilence of complex systems.The financial markets have a lot to learn from ecosystems and crisis, states a press release from the Volvo Environment Prize. Politicians and policy-makers all over the world are struggling to stabilize the global financial system.
- October 31, 2008
Small businesses across Canada are developing a love-hate relationship with climate change-prevention programs, say business and environmental groups.
- October 31, 2008
Aboriginal small businesses are on the rise, but much more work must be done to start up firms on reserves, say First Nations business developers.
- October 29, 2008
Expect to work with first nations if you want to develop an independent power project in British Columbia, private energy developers heard on Tuesday.
- October 25, 2008
Licences of bankrupt fishermen can be sold, Supreme Court says
Decision praised by fisheries groups, criticized by lawyer as harmful to fishing families - October 14, 2008
As the story goes, Murray Koffler was visiting one of his Shoppers Drug Mart stores just as a young aboriginal man was being escorted out of the building on suspicion of theft.
- October 09, 2008
Ecotrust Canada is turning its attention to ways local communities can extract more value from the area's timber.
- September 26, 2008
Search "native" and "unemployment" in The Globe and Mail'sarchives from 1977 to the present, and you'll get hundreds of hits. The stories chronicle years of spiralling poverty on reserves, Third World housing and escalating suicide rates.
- September 26, 2008
WoodsWarII-Banner.jpgClayoquot Sound was a historic green victory. But now the coalition that barred forestry from Canada's last, best place has come unstuck. With natives logging for themselves, will things come to blows amid the old growth?
- September 04, 2008
In recognition of ten years of groundbreaking and innovative work, the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Canada is pleased to present the 2008 Award for Special Achievement in GIS to the Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN), hosted
- September 03, 2008Ecotrust and Ecotrust Canada submit the following comments on the Western Climate Initiative’s (WCI) Draft Design of the Regional Cap-and-Trade Program.September 02, 2008
“West Coast Air will be taking a broader and more strategic approach in our desire to make an impact on climate change, said Rick Baxter, President and CEO.
August 29, 2008The municipality plans to cut its 2007 greenhouse gas emission levels by at least 10 per cent over the next four years, according to a plan endorsed by council Tuesday night.
August 21, 2008August 20, 2008Japan is to carry carbon footprint labels on food packaging and other products in an ambitious scheme to persuade companies and consumers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
August 02, 2008Environmental groups are trying to bully First Nations into abandoning their logging plans in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt says.
August 02, 2008Days when environmentalists and natives stood shoulder to shoulder on logging protests are gone. A backdoor argument has emerged over the fate of Clayoquot Sound's iconic rain forest, Mark Hume reports
July 30, 2008Iisaak Forest Resources Ltd, a 100% First Nations-owned forestry company in Clayoquot Sound, and Ecotrust Canada announce today that they have successfully completed a 20-month management agreement designed to improve the company’s financi
June 26, 2008Randy Burke, who has helmed North Vancouver's Bluewater Adventures since 1988, is thrilled that the youthful green spirit of the 1970s has come storming back in recent times.
June 12, 2008Noah Grant, YES! Magazine, Summer 2008
Has the promise of the stories we've published turned into reality? Where is logging in the Clayoquot Sound rainforest at today?
June 01, 2008Steve Wetherby, Business Examiner, June 2, 2008
Globalization is just a new term for an old story: since Europeans were propelled by a host of forces into a world-girding competition for colonies, converts, markets, raw materials, power and glory, communities far smaller and more remote than Port McNeill have seen their own fortunes rise or fall on the ebb and flow of economic tides far away.
May 18, 2008By Monte Stewart - Business Edge - May 16, 2008
A B.C. group is seeking approval for the world's first eco-certified shark fishery.May 11, 2008Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, Saturday, May 10, 2008
A federal cash infusion of almost $1.5 million over the next five years will help forest-dependent communities around Clayoquot Sound find new ways of creating a viable industry.May 11, 2008Gillian Riddell, Westerly News, Thursday, May 08, 2008
The Clayoquot Forest Communities Program (FCP) will officially launch this Friday morning at a ceremony at the Tin Wis Conference Centre in Tofiino. The FCP is a new program being implemented by the Central Region Management Board and Ecotrust Canada as part of a national strategy to help forest-dependent communities.May 08, 2008TOFINO, BC—The Nuu-chah-nulth Central Region Management Board (CRMB) and Ecotrust Canada are pleased to announce today the launch of the Clayoquot Forest Communities Program (FCP) as one of 11 sites across Canada to join the federally funded program.
April 20, 2008APRIL 20, 2008 (VANCOUVER) — A group of BC fishermen have taken the bold step to become the world’s first eco-certified shark fishery.
April 09, 2008APRIL 9, 2008 (VANCOUVER) - Vancouver City Savings Credit Union is the first North American-based financial institution to be carbon neutral, the credit union announced today.
video:April 08, 2008CTV, April 9, 2008
Vancity credit union is the first North American financial institution to become carbon neutral, it announced on Wednesday, after it voluntarily set its own goals in 2006 to reduce its carbon emissions before 2010.
March 15, 2008MARCH 13, 2008 (WHISTLER, BC) - The partnership of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, Squamish Nation and Lilwat Nation have been invited to submit an application for a Probationary Community Forest Agreement from the Hon. Rich Coleman, Minister of Forests and Range.
March 10, 2008BY KEVIN DREWS / TOFIINO / The provincial government has recognized a Tofino woman for fostering innovative economic development programs on Vancouver Island.
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