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Here are some 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 our free Community Blog where new submissions are always welcome. |
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Safeguard Your Health: What the Public Needs to Know |
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Would you knowingly eat food, drink water or breathe air that contains toxic chemicals and microplastics linked to cancer that are contained in sewage sludge from Victoria, BC’s wastewater treatment plant? Right now, forever chemicals, which true to their name last nearly forever in our environment, such as PFAS, and microplastics as well as PAHs, lead, mercury, dioxins, and pharmaceuticals are making their way into our air, water and soil through the bio-accumulation of tons of these toxic chemicals that remain in the sludge after the waste water from our homes, industry, businesses and health care facilities is processed. Since 2022, the CRD plan was to use these dried biosolids as an alternative to fossil fuels in a cement plant, which is in keeping with a ban on the land application of biosolids the CRD Board passed in 2011. Instead, every day, 10 tons of toxic sludge, also known as “biosolids,” has been spread or buried at Victoria’s Hartland Landfill, where wind and rain erosion disperses these forever chemicals into the neighbouring farms, fields, forests and watersheds. The CRD is giving the public until March 6th to do an important biosolids survey. Many people have reported the wording is confusing and/or they don’t know enough about the subject to respond. Creatively United has provided a quick and easy way to be informed and take the survey. |
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How Far-Right Politics Is Influencing Canada’s Climate Conversation Wednesday, Feb. 28, 9 am PT, Online Zoom Presentation |
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Explore the influence of far-right politics on Canada’s climate conversation and what this means for communicators. This discussion and Q&A session will follow the evidence to disentangle the far-right’s financial ties to the oil and gas industry, the messaging strategies employed by Canada’s anti-climate influencers, and the media and networks that move anti-climate politics from the fringe to the mainstream and what this all means for Canadian politics and journey to net-zero. Register here for free |
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World Water Day - Film Screening & Conversation Thursday, March 21, 6:30 pm PT, UVIC Bob Wright Centre, Room B150 |
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In honour of World Water Day, Creatively United for the Planet Society with the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, will host Changing Course: A River's Journey of Reconnection, a free public film premiere and discussion in Room B150 of UVic's Bob Wright Centre, with networking starting at 6:30 pm, followed by a conversation with Larry George (Director of Lulumexun (Lands & Self-Governance), Cowichan Tribes), and Katrina Adams (Senior Aquatic Biologist, Peninsula Streams & Shorelines), with more speakers to be announced soon. RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated. If you plan to join us in person, please email at polisworkstudy@uvic.ca. The event will also be livestreamed, register here for free. To learn more about the film please click 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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