Posts from ‘Retired Campaigns’ - Page 4

This week Central Saanich Council approved Ian Vantreight’s plan to build a luxury subdivision on rural and agricultural land.  Watch this video to hear about the implications this will ...

Vancouver Island’s natural spaces are an essential part of our community. They provide recreation spots for our families, jobs for forestry workers and clean drinking water for everyone. These ...

Ian Vantreight’s controversial proposal to convert rural and agricultural land into luxury condos and housing highlights the crisis faced in communities across North America: farmers being forced out of ...

Here’s a personal challenge: How do you measure up in terms of sustainability? In 1996, a slim book based on a UBC doctoral dissertation and published by a little-known ...

I was playing hide and seek last week with a two-year-old. She kept trying to sneak past me by covering her own eyes, no doubt thinking “If I can’t ...

As mentioned in my first blog, before I lay out some of the serious problems we are facing and discuss how we might resolve them, I want to justify ...

In our continent of big box stores and commuter suburbs Central Saanich is anomalous as a rural community that protects its farms by funneling development into existing urban areas.  ...

In Mid-March we put out the call for people to make pledges of personal action to stop oil tankers and pipelines from fouling BC’s rivers and coast. The results ...

Right now our coastlines and forest lands from Sooke to Port Renfrew are still at risk from sprawling development. Tell the province to protect Vancouver Island’s forests Click here ...