Blog Archive 2010
- December 09, 2010video:
Ecotrust is proud to announce the release of "Cache", an inspiring book that tracks Ecotrust Founder Spencer Beebe's forty year adventure as a leader in the world of conservation and entreprise creation.
- December 06, 2010video:
On Nov. 16th, 2010, the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust and the Clayoquot Forest Communities Program hosted 51 people for an Integrated Monitoring Workshop in Tofino BC.
- October 27, 2010
“There is a need for a full range of social finance tools to support the green economy, particularly in rural communities so that they don’t get left behind the current attention on cities “ said Brenda Kuecks, President of Ecotrust Canada, to a pa
- October 04, 2010
Ecotrust Canada and the Real Estate Foundation of BC will co-host a pre-dinner reception and cash bar at the Gaining Ground Summit.
Please join us October 6th, 4:30 - 6:30pm, at the SFU Segal Building (500 Granville Street).
- September 23, 2010
Change Action Team from Groupe Aeroplan visits Clayoquot SoundFor three days in September 2010, 12 young leaders from Groupe Aeroplan’s various global business units convened in Clayoquot Sound to ponder how their company can best support sustainability across different scales and regions.
- September 21, 2010
Anyone who has been involved in the community economic development sector or has witnessed its evolution over the last four decades can’t help but being saddened by the recent developments with Shorebank of Chicago.
- July 21, 2010
- May 20, 2010
Top hats. Junk shots. Top kills. Insertion tubes. This is the new vocabulary we are learning as the Gulf Coast oil spill enters its fifth week.
- May 11, 2010
Spill Zone.jpgThe first thing you notice is the smell. When the wind blows in from the Gulf, it’s like inhaling deeply from a charcoal barbecue that’s been doused with lighter fluid.
- May 03, 2010video:
I caught up with Alexandra Morton in Buckley Bay to walk with her awhile on her Get Out Migration trek from Echo Bay to Victoria.
- April 28, 2010video:
The Hesquiaht Nation has a plan to re-establish the historical gardens which were established by many of the community members’ grandparents.
- April 15, 2010
Living Proof in productionEcotrust Canada is pleased to announce that Living Proof: The Essential Data-Collection Guide to Indigenous Use-and-Occupancy Map Surveys by Terry N.Tobias has won a prestigous national awar
- March 26, 2010
In the elaborate surrounds of the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Thomas Berger referred on Thursday night to a “magnificent object” - but he wasn’t talking about a totem pole, a mask, or any of the other fine art exhibits on display.
- March 18, 2010
A recent report issued by the Independent Power Producers Association of BC (IPPBC) in February 2010 presents some impressive economic projections for the renewable energy sector
- March 03, 2010
The 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, 2010
The 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, 2010
Dolores Bayne shows how to eat the right wayLast 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, 2010
tofinoaerial.jpgSome 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, 2010
Towers descending on the lanesIt 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, 2010
Prince Rupert harbourEcotrust 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.
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