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Sustainable Coast BC Views: Whale's Tail, Sea Stars, Jervis Inlet Sunset © bdsaunders

Gibsons fire destroys heritage building, homes

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Category: News News
Published: 04 June 2010 04 June 2010

Coles Marine Diesel Repair, a heritage building in Lower Gibsons, was destroyed by fire on Friday, June 4.

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Environmental Impacts’ Unsustainable Distances: Truth and Official Accounts

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Category: Current Users Current Users
Published: 25 May 2010 25 May 2010

“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume. –Tony Hayward, CEO of BP (14 May 2010) 1

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SCRAPS, How it All Began

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Written by Anne Miles Anne Miles
Category: Features Features
Published: 24 May 2010 24 May 2010

I can’t believe it’s been 22 years! My friends and I may have been talking about recycling even before the summer of ‘88, but it was then that SCRAPS began to get off the ground. All the papers have disappeared from my filing cabinet. I think I passed them on, a few years back, to some SCRAPS board members who were trying to save the society—so, you’ll have to forgive me if I get things wrong after all this time, in terms of places, dates, etc..But here is my recollection of how SCRAPS began.

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Chilliwack River Gravel Pit Opposition Grows

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Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
Published: 24 May 2010 24 May 2010
This splendid article by Walter Neufeld from CHILLIWACK TODAY spells out with no punches pulled just what “environmental assessments are all about and it applies to the farces that deal with private power companies destroying our rivers.

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Shop Local?

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Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
Published: 24 May 2010 24 May 2010

I was reading an article reporting that residents of the Sunshine Coast tend to shop locally. The article was about a presentation of a gap analysis study conducted by Best Coast Initiative economic development officer, Murray McLaughlin to the SCRD. The study was to determine how much of the local economy is spent locally and how much actually is spent off- coast.

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Video: Triumphant Victoria Finale for Salmon Migration

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Category: News News
Published: 20 May 2010 20 May 2010

Update: Letter from Alexandra, May 17, 2010

Hello. Please see this video on the Get Out Migration.  (SEE BELOW) Watch it with pride...this one is about you!

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Sunshine Coast Workshops: From Waste Management to Zero Waste

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Category: News News
Published: 13 May 2010 13 May 2010

SuCESS is hosting A two day workshop on Zero Waste and Resource Recovery Park planning on Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30 with international Zero Waste consultant Richard V. Anthony. All members of the Sunshine Coast community are invited to learn about Zero Waste and participate in sustainability planning for their region.

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Why the HST is Bad for BC

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Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
Published: 12 May 2010 12 May 2010

Rafe Mair interviews former Socred cabinet colleague and BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm on the campaign to stop the HST.  Watch this fascinating 10 min back-and-forth between the two veteran politicians.

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Design Team Volunteers Needed for RRP

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Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
Category: News News
Published: 12 May 2010 12 May 2010

 The Plan Monitoring Advisory Committee (PMAC) has created a sub-committee to help design the Pender Harbour Resource Recovery Park. They are looking for residents and stakeholders to become part of the Technical Design Team (TDT).

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  1. “Site C” and The Gulf Oil Spill, Sustainability, and Risks
  2. The Authorities
  3. Sunshine Coast Zero Waste and Resource Recovery Workshops scheduled for May 29 & 30
  4. Migration Rally Impressions
  5. The Garbage Project
  6. Gibsons Salmon Walk
  7. Why Salal?
  8. Site 'C' and Other Bad Ideas for BC
  9. "Opt out" or follow the rules?
  10. A New Letter from Alexandra Morton

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Coast Events

Edible Garden Tour 

August 6      11 am to evening

presented by One Straw Society

http://www.onestraw.ca/

 

This Living Salish Sea

film August 26

two screenings 3 pm and 7 pm

Madeira Park School of Music

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