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Housing That Heals the Future features nine inspiring interviews on a wide range of projects that are charting the future towards healthier, happier communities. This information rich webinar also includes the incredible new six-minute film, The Animal Forest Campaign (Part 2), photographed in the beautiful Six Mountain region of North Cowichan by Icel Dobell of WhereDoWeStand.ca. In keeping with this season's theme of Regeneration, this episode of Creatively United's Climate and Artists Webinar Series explores: - Zero waste buildings and harmless homes
- Creating cohousing as sustainable living
- Healthy energy & healthy homes
- Overcoming barriers to Installing EV charging stations in stratas
- Ways housing can address climate change
- How to reduce building costs and landfill expansion
- Forest communities that save forests
- New options for farm communities
- Disruptive new technologies that break down barriers to net zero carbon living
Presenters include: Order of Canada award-winning singer/songwriter, Ann Mortifee, plus Jack Anderson, Helen Boyd, Jim Bronson & Sandi Goldie, Jim Connelly, Arno Keinonen, Doug Makaroff, and Roy Yeske. |
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Learn How to get EV Charging Stations Installed in Your Strata Creatively United will host a special online webinar on this topic with presenter, Roy Yeske, in the near future if there is enough expressed interest. Drop us an email with "Strata" in the subject line if you are interested and we will get back to you with details. |
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Featured Events & Stories Did you know that you can learn about upcoming talks, gatherings, news and post your events and stories free-of-charge to CreativelyUnited.org
Here are a few examples of what you will find: |
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World Health Day 2022
Thursday, April 7 |
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Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all?
Where economies are focused on health and well-being? Where cities are livable and people have control over their health and the health of the planet? A well-being economy has human well-being, equity and ecological sustainability as its goals. These goals are translated into long-term investments, well-being budgets, social protection and legal and fiscal strategies. Breaking these cycles of destruction for the planet and human health requires legislative action, corporate reform and individuals to be supported and incentivized to make healthy choices. Learn more here |
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Benefit Concert for the Trees
Friday, April 9, 4-5 pm PT |
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See a host of incredible performers from opera to cabaret, including singers Luke Wallace, Anne, Gary and Deanna Relyea, and Haida singer/drummer Kuu’laay, plus a ballerina, pianist and clarinettist. Admission by donation. Proceeds towards Fairy Creek legal costs. Sponsored by Esquimalt United Church Justice Team and Elders for Ancient Trees. More information available here |
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Fossil Fuel Promotion in BC Schools
Tuesday, April 12, 7-8 pm PT |
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Have you heard about the K-12 curriculum resources developed by Fortis BC and marketed to teachers across BC? Energy Leaders presents natural gas as a necessary and harmless energy source and does not mention any negative health or environmental impacts from burning fossil fuels. This info session is for those who want to learn more, and those who want to be part of the public call to ban fossil fuel corporate sponsorship of the school curriculum. Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) and Dogwood Institute will provide a quick and informative overview of Energy Leaders, examples of how it amounts to propaganda, misinformation and advertising for Fortis BC, and answer questions from participants. Register for free here |
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Great Walking, Cycling and Rolling
Wednesday, April 13, 4 pm PT |
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The West Coast Climate Action Network invites you to the 2nd of our four webinars on Transportation in a Time of Climate Crisis. Our guest speakers are: - Trish Dehnel, community planner, active with the Castlegar-Nelson Active Transportation Corridor Team;
- Iona Bonamis, Senior transportation planner;
- Thomas Thivener, Active Transportation Lead with Watt Consulting.
- Our MC is Mona Dahir, Road Safety EIT with the City of Surrey.
In parallel with the webinar, we will launch a public petition calling on the BC Government to establish a plan for achieving BC’s 2030 active transportation mode share targets, and to increase the provincial Active Transportation program funding from $20 million to $100 million annually and the maximum for a project from $500,000 to $5 million, by re-allocating funds from highway expansion projects, and we will be lobbying the government once we have community buy-in for the petition. Register here for free |
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Peace Possible Through Technologies of Consciousness
Submitted by Jenica K. Waymen |
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Are you interested in knowing about a scientifically verified and effective alternative to Canada's approval of purchasing fighter jets for $19 billion? Well intended and costly efforts to reduce conflict and reverse negative trends in society have largely failed. Efforts to create a peaceful, harmonious world have been largely unsuccessful: political action, lobbying, education, policies, treaties. etc.
Look at Syria and the Ukraine. Why? Because not one addresses the underlying epidemic of individual and social stress, the unseen driver of social conflict, violence and environmental degradation. War begins in the minds of people. Solutions are available from a deeper level of consciousness than the level of consciousness that created the conflict.
Technologies of consciousness can bring peace and harmony to society and restore balance in the environment with evidence-based solutions to the most pressing problems facing humanity today. Learn more here. The power of these technologies for promoting peace and effecting broad societal change has been demonstrated in leading peer reviewed scientific journals and are easy to implement with public and political will. Our world has the opportunity to recognize this potential for evolutionary deeper solutions through these proven consciousness based technologies. 'Nothing else in the world, not all the armies, is so powerful as an idea whose time has come' - Victor Hugo For more information, please email michaelandjenica@gmail.com |
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Canada Climate Action
From Our Climate Partners If you want to be informed of all the breaking climate news and actions, please be sure to sign up for newsletters from the Westcoast Climate Action Network |
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We Can Do Better with $50 billion - Please amplify
From Environmental Defence: Big Oil executives are asking for another $50 billion in the federal budget - but together we can come up with better plans. Could you post something on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and/or TikTok using the hashtag #50billion showcasing your idea for building a better, healthier Canada? We don’t need bogus technologies like capture carbon utilization and storage (CCUS). We need plans that put people ahead of polluters. Tell Minister Freeland we have better plans for $50 billion. Make a public post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok with the hashtag #50billion. Click here for amplification materials. |
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Protect biodiversity in Canada - Sign-on Letter
From Greenpeace: Tell Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault we need a law to respect nature. We need a new Biodiversity Act that protects the rich ecosystems of Canada. This law must respect Indigenous sovereignty, hold corporations accountable, and establish firm nature protection targets. |
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All people in Canada have the right to a healthy environment - Ask your MP to support Bill C-226 From the David Suzuki Foundation: Pollution and environmental degradation disproportionately harm racialized communities. Canada needs a national strategy to identify, address and prevent environmental racism, and advance environmental justice. Former MP Lenore Zann originally introduced the National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act, in the last session of Parliament. It gained the support of four of five parties but died on the order paper when the 2021 election was called. In February 2022, MP Elizabeth May re-introduced the bill. We are calling on all parties to support its passage without further delay. |
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Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada - Help spread the word From Environmental Defence: In 2021 the federal government gave at least $8.6 billion to oil and gas companies. Governments in Canada have spent nearly $6 billion on CCUS since 2000. Collectively these projects only capture only 0.05% of our GHGs, and 70% of the carbon is used for enhanced oil recovery = more production. So the carbon capture subsidies have put MORE carbon into the atmosphere - not less. Please help us spread the word to keep up the pressure on Minister Freeland and the government ahead of next week's budget and the release of the CCUS tax credit. |
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This brilliant 2.5 minute film says it all. |
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Petition for a World-Class BC-Wide Bus Service - Please sign From WE-CAN: To John Horgan, Premier of BC: We call on you to work together to take whatever steps are needed to build a safe, reliable, affordable, publicly owned-and-operated inter-community bus service network for the benefit of all BC communities, and to report on progress within six months. |
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Join the Outcry over BC Timber Sales' plans to Spray South Coast Forests with Glyphosate Pesticide - Please phone From Elvis Stan: The BC government has very (very) quietly announced its five-year BC Timber Sales' Pest Management Plan, which covers Squamish to Hope, targeting native hardwoods and Indigenous medicines and food with the toxic pesticide glyphosate, in an effort to increase lumber output by killing deciduous trees, in the lands of the Stó:lō, St’at’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Elvis Stan is an Indigenous woman who is using her Instagram account to mobilize a movement in defence of Indigenous plants that are ecologically crucial and culturally significant, seeking a 60-day extension for public consultation. Her Instagram slide shows us who we need to call: Minister of Land Water and Resource Stewardship, Josie Osborne: 250-387-2283 MAH.Minister@gov.bc.ca |
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Help Ecojustice challenge BC’s 2021 Climate Change Accountability Report From Ecojustice: On behalf of Sierra Club BC, we are filing a case to challenge BC’s 2021 Climate Change Accountability Report and George Heyman, the B.C. Minister of Environment's failure to provide this required and crucial information to the public. B.C. is supposed to be a climate leader, and yet the B.C. government continues to back fracked “natural” gas and LNG projects that directly contribute to climate change. This increases the risk to people’s well-being, mental health, and physical safety. To help towards the legal costs, click here. |
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'Just Stop Oil': Climate Activists Block 10 Terminals Across UK From Common Dreams: Hundreds of climate campaigners engaged in direct action at 10 major oil facilities across the United Kingdom in the early hours of Friday morning, vowing to continue blocking the sites until the U.K. government agrees to immediately end new fossil fuel investments—which scientists have said is necessary to avoid the planetary emergency's most disastrous outcomes. The protests, located at terminals near London, Birmingham, and Southampton, were organized by Extinction Rebellion U.K. and the Just Stop Oil coalition. Operations were reportedly stopped at four sites, and more than a dozen people were arrested. |
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Enter To Win Win a $100 gift certificate to Lifestyle Markets and this fabulous new book, The Court Case of the Creatures, by Creatively United webinar guest and Winnipeg artist/writer/activist, Bob Haverluck. By filling out this short survey you will be automatically entered to win. | | |
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Creatively United for the Planet is a registered non-profit society. Since 2012, we have been leading, convening and amplifying ways to share how collectively we can reduce our ecological footprint and implement long-term sustainability solutions. Our mandate is to foster conversations, connections and create collaborative opportunities that bring individuals and organizations together in support of achieving common sustainability goals and accelerating climate action. Creatively United is a member of the Westcoast Climate Action Network and works collaboratively with numerous community organizations and in partnership with the Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund, supported by The Victoria Foundation. The Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund is dedicated to changing human consciousness towards global environmental change by combining science with the creativity of the performing arts. |
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Healthy, happy communities begin from the ground up. Help us inspire generations to protect and preserve the natural world and confront climate change, so families, communities and nature can prosper together. |
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