Please note that this was originally posted on the Nature Trust BC website, here. On August 2, 2018, I started my 1,400km 27-day journey near Mount Robson in the headwaters of the Fraser River. I travelled downstream by canoe, raft and on foot with eight other community leaders,…
My name is Ella Parker and I am a research assistant with the University of Northern British Columbia’s Integrated Watershed Research Group. I graduated from the Sustainable Living Leadership Program in 2018. For my community action project, I decided to…
Young Burnaby woman gets her eyes opened during a trip down the Fraser River Originally published in the Burnaby Now September 16, 2018 After spending 52 days living in the wilderness, I finally came back to my hometown of Burnaby.…
Originally posted on West Coast Environmental Law’s website. Shared with permission. September 19, 2018 “Rivers are the arteries of our planet; they are lifelines in the truest sense.” – Mark Angelo, Founder, World Rivers Day This August I took my…
Blog post by: Richelle Giberson I can honestly say that the SLLP has inspired me in all aspects of my life, big and small.” – Colin O’Neil, 2013 SLLP Alumn We recently caught up with Colin O’Neil, an alumn from…
Last summer, myself and Oliver Berger (another 2016 SLLP alumnus) traveled the 48km Goat River Trail across the Cariboo Mountains. We were looking for adventure. But we also had a serious purpose in mind. We wanted to create a video…
The thing that seems the simplest in paddling down a river is that you always know your direction. You dip your paddle and propel yourself, but the river does most of the work. And like paddling down a nicely moving…
On May 6th I participated in a Canada wide event to clean up cigarette butts called the Butt Blitz. The organized clean up started with a group in Toronto called A Greener Future. They promote environmental preservation by bringing together communities at events like the…
Recently, Simran Lehal and I (Simon Zukowski) applied for a grant from the Co-operators’ IMPACT! fund to finance improvements to the Goat River Trail. The trail is important because it passes through one of the last, major, pristine watersheds that…
From the April/May 2017 issue of the Green Gazette By Megan Rempel – Despite seeming insignificant, cigarette butts are the largest contributor to litter out of all plastic products found along Canada’s shorelines. Four and a half trillion butts are…
