Building an economy that provides for life

This Earth Day, we are being asked to recognize and embrace the power of people to drive transformative change.  The 2025 theme—Our Power, Our Planet—invites us to reimagine what a healthy, equitable, and prosperous future can look like when we act collectively and in alignment with the places we call home. We feel that the launch of our Routes to Roots project perfectly exemplifies this spirit. From Nuxalk Nation, an Indigenous community located on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Carrigan Tallio, Program Manager for the Indigenous Homelands Program, introduces the Routes to Roots program. Carrigan comes from a family dedicated to revitalizing culture in her community; to Carrigan, it is because of the strength and knowledge of her family ...