Happy Solstice! Summer Fun & Updates |
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Here are a few of the many events that can also be found on Creatively United's free Event Calendar, your source for finding a wide variety of both online and in-person events of interest to the Creatively United community. Be sure to also visit the Community Blog where new submissions are always welcome, and the Pair Up Directory, featuring more than 270 non-profit organizations. |
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Experience an incredible journey through the heart of African culture with a variety of artists sharing energy and rhythms that showcase the richness and diversity of Africa's traditions and innovations. Featuring music, food, crafts, and dancing all weekend.
June 21-23 at Centennial Square. Free. Learn more here |
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Esquimalt Urban Arts Tour 10 am-4pm, Saturday, July 6th, Esquimalt |
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The Esquimalt Urban Arts Tour, now in its 5th year, is an outdoor, self-guided free tour featuring local gardens and artists for a unique, family-friendly day of adventure. Creatively United's founder, Frances Litman, will be one of the participating artists. If you missed your opportunity to see Metamorphosis: A Healing Journey, a new Creatively United production, the book will be available for view and sale, along with a wide variety of photography, frames, supplies and vintage photo books and magazines, plus free colouring sheets at 474 Nelson St. Saturday, July 6, 10 am-4 pm.
See the map and learn more here |
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Featuring a comprehensive range of activities and resources for alternative methods to promote your personal sense of well-being. Explore diverse treatments, such as Reiki, massage, acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, psychic and tarot card readings, Shamanic medicine, intuitive Feng Shui consultations, holistic nutrition consultations, organic ritual oils, spiritual mentorship and more. Learn more here |
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Public Input Influences CRD’s Long Term Biosolids Management Plan by Jonathan O'Riordan |
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Thank you to all our readers and those who responded to the CRD survey on the long-term biosolids management plan. Your support resulted in the CRD approving the long-term plan we support for the thermal conversion of biosolids and will shut down biosolids land filling at Hartland in Saanich, BC. In July, The CRD will issue a request for proposals from six companies for a demonstration thermal processing plan to convert up to 10 tonnes a day of biosolids into a valuable and safe biochar. The selected proponent will be announced in mid-October and the plant is expected to be operational within two years. The proponents are also invited to include other sources of waste for thermal conversion particularly wood and construction waste. Inclusion of such waste will reduce the need for an expansion of the current landfill and save some 72 acres of mature trees and recreation space. If the demonstration plant is successful, it will be permanently established and potentially expanded to include more sources of waste. The CRD would become the first jurisdiction in North America to operate a thermal plant to treat biosolids. While the demonstration plant is being commissioned over the next two years, the CRD will explore a number of options to manage biosolids in compliance with provincial regulations. These include using biosolids as a fuel in industrial facilities such as cement and asphalt plants and land application in areas outside the CRD. The CRD has continued its Regional ban on land application of biosolids and will release a report undertaken by an independent consultant on monitoring toxicity levels in waters around Hartland. Read the Capital Daily exposé and visit CreativelyUnited.org/biosolids to learn more. |
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BC Misses The Mark With Old-Growth Update by Rochelle Baker, Capital Daily |
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The B.C. government continues to move at a glacial pace to meet an overdue promise to transform the logging industry and protect endangered old-growth forests and ecosystems, BC conservation groups say. The province recently issued its latest progress report on transforming forestry practices to preserve ancient forests and vital ecosystems and meet 14 calls to action from the old-growth strategic review (OGSR) completed in the spring of 2020. The From Review to Action plan is a lacklustre effort that fails to include any new steps, specific details, or deadlines urgently needed to preserve what little old-growth remains, said the Sierra Club’s Jens Wieting. “I’m disappointed,” the senior policy and science advisor said. “Without ambitious timelines and milestones, the newly-released update does not guarantee the necessary forestry reforms nor timely interim and long-term protection of at-risk old-growth,” said Wieting. Read the full article here |
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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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