This week marks Creatively United's involvement in seven free World Unity Week webinars and the final week of our Climate and the Arts free webinar series until this fall.

Read more about the exciting free webinars we are offering during World Unity Week below and be sure to tune in this Wednesday from 11 am to noon for an insightful look into how we can create thriving, resilient, happy and healthy communities using our natural resources in ways that benefit people and planet.

July and August will be your opportunity to catch up on previous webinars and send the letters (complete with email addresses) that we crafted calling for:

A New Ecoforest Management System, Managing Ecosystem Values and Enhanced Water Security Cooperation in Canada.

Creatively United for the Planet is honoured to be invited to present a number of free webinars as part of World Unity Week, June 20-27th, an international gathering of more than 100 leading change-making organizations focused on Creative Solutions for a New World.

A Youth Perspective on Climate and Social Activism
Monday, June 22, 6-8 pm PST

with Katia Bannister, Grace Sinats, Jasmine Hachey, and Ella Kruus

Creatively United and ClimateHealers.org Interview
Tuesday, June 23, 7-8 pm PST

with Jonathan O'Riordan & Frances Litman

Trees Matter! Taking a Stand for the Love of Trees
Thursday, June 25, 10:30-11 am PST

with Grace Golightly & Frances Litman

Solutions for Indigenous and Ecosystem-based Resource Management
Thursday, June 25, 1-2 pm PST

with Jonathan O'Riordan, Dallas Smith, Gary Wouters,

Grant Scott, & Wally Eamer

A New Ecological Civilization – The Economics of Kindness
Thursday, June 25, 2-3 pm PST

with Guy Dauncey and Frances Litman

Youth for Climate and Social Justice - A Movement of Unity

Thursday, June 25, 6-8 pm PST

with Cowichan Valley Earth Guardians

Transformational Moment and Reconciliation
Friday, June 26, 3-5 pm PST

with Jonathan O'Riordan, Bob Sandford,

Merrel Ann Phare, & Michael Miltenburger

Please be sure to check out all the amazing presenters, including our newest partners, BC Project Drawdown and international vegan/vegetarian experts, ClimateHealers.org, who are also presenting during World Unity Week.

The Doughnut and the New Forest Framework: The Wildwood Model

Economics is the driving force that dictates our lives – how we earn our living, how we operate as a society, how we treat the environment and the natural gifts given to us. Now the system is crumbling and it is clear we cannot return to business as usual. We are finally learning the secret – we are part of nature, not apart from it. When we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.

Enter Doughnut Economics, the brainchild of British economist Kate Raworth, currently turning the economic world on its head. To no one’s surprise, it is the environment that provides us the boundaries we need to live by. These are the parameters by which Wildwood Ecoforest, a rare and unique 77-acre ecoforest nestled along the shores of Quennell Lake just north of Ladysmith, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, has operated since 1945.

Previous owner, Merv Wilkinson, selectively logged the forest, always ensuring the ecosystems remained intact. Wildwood is owned by the Ecoforestry Institute Society, a registered charitable society.

Join Kathleen Code as she explores how the Wildwood model fits snugly into Raworth’s doughnut model - how revenue and job creation embrace social justice, inclusiveness and equity, and how those values in turn tuck into the ecological boundaries that bind us all.

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Watch Our Previous Webinars

Thank you to everyone for tuning in to our 11 am to noon Wednesday Climate and Artists Series and to those who sent letters to elected officials that we provided with a number of our videos in support of a new forest framework, ecological diversity and improved freshwater management.

To visit any of our previous recordings, please visit CreativelyUnited.org and/or subscribe to Creatively United on YouTube where you can see a multitude of videos.

About Creatively United & Our Partners

The Creatively United for the Planet Society is a registered non-profit society. Since 2012, we have brought together more than 10,000 people from throughout the region who care about happy, healthy, and resilient communities. We have done so through seven zero-waste sustainability showcases, numerous community events and educational talks, collaborative partnerships, a video series, and the CreativelyUnited.org free community information network, resource and solutions sharing hub. 

The Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund supported by MakeWay (formerly Tides Canada) is dedicated to changing human consciousness towards global environmental change by combining science with the creativity of the performing arts.

The Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS) is a registered non-profit, charitable society comprised of a volunteer Board and a strong core of community volunteers.  Together, we are dedicated to the principles and practices of ecoforestry – demonstrating that we can harvest trees and plants from the forest while maintaining healthy and integrated ecological systems.

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