Involved residents will collect outdoors MP Alistair MacGregor’s Duncan constituency workplace this Saturday, March 12 at 1 p.m. as a part of a 350.org Canada-wide motion.
The Duncan occasion, asking federal, provincial and native governments for pressing local weather motion and assist for vitality sector and different employees to transition to good jobs in a greener financial system, is being organized by the Cowichan Local weather Hub, a collaboration of religion teams, social profit and environmental non-profits, farmers, small companies, colleges, labor teams and others involved concerning the local weather emergency.
“Our native and federal governments have declared we’re in a local weather emergency,” mentioned Adrienne Brown, a member of Chemainus Local weather Options. “We’re prepared to interact in constructive conversations with authorities reps in any respect ranges to attain solutions-focused local weather motion now, and in ways in which nobody is left behind.”
“Prime Minister Trudeau promised Simply Transition laws again in 2019,” mentioned native organizer Jane Kilthei, “It’s gone time for Canada to enact this laws and put money into efficient nation-wide local weather motion, together with ending fossil gasoline subsidies and investing in a simply transition for employees. Our provincial and native governments additionally must do far more.”
The Cowichan Local weather Hub is asking all 5 native governments to get severe about getting fossil gasoline emissions, each pure fuel and oil, out of the constructed atmosphere within the Cowichan Valley, beginning with limits on new development. Town of Vancouver has handed a bylaw banning fossil gasoline heating and water heating in new properties and low-rise residential development. Different B.C. municipalities, like North Vancouver, have added a low carbon compliance pathway to their Development Regulation Bylaw for brand spanking new buildings as a part of their Power Step Code, with incentives for builders to part out fuel.
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The Cowichan Valley Naturalists Society is inviting individuals to find out about hen songs on Tusday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.
The presentation of “Hen songs, listening to loss, happiness and habitat conservation” by Alicia Bridge will probably be on-line.
To a naturalist, the sound of a neighborhood hen name could sign a particular season, or the presence of a novel habitat. To at least one working in nature remedy, a hen music could also be a software for positively dealing with life stresses and cognition fatigue. To an audiologist, hen songs could also be a way of measuring a person’s listening to loss. Whereas every of those fields of research acquire totally different insights from the presence of hen songs, they’re all positively motivated to preserve the power to listen to them.
Bridge will discover a number of the empirical analysis from the fields of nature remedy and audiology because it pertains to hen songs, wellbeing and listening to loss. Bridge’s background is in environmental schooling and communication. For the previous 10 years she has labored in and round nature based mostly remedy, land and watershed conservation, environmental schooling and mindfulness based mostly stress discount.
For the Zoom hyperlink to the presentation, e-mail cvns@naturecowichan.net
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Two native 4-H golf equipment are promoting tickets for 4-H B.C.’s 2022 Gator lottery fundraiser.
For $10 people can have an opportunity to win a John Deere Gator, $2,500 price of Save on Meals present playing cards, a flight withWestJet, a lodge keep at any Status lodge and resort amongst many different prizes.
The Cowichan 4-H Holstein Membership is presently in first place in all of B.C. for ticket gross sales, and the Cowichan Small Engines 4-H Membership can also be promoting tickets this yr. (The highest membership in B.C. for ticket gross sales will win $1,000, so assist Cowichan’s golf equipment.)
Fundraising efforts go in direction of buying provides, awards, assist with journey bills, and volunteer appreciation.
If anybody wish to purchase a ticket choose Cowichan Holstein 4-H Membership or Cowichan Small Engines 4-H Membership throughout checkout to make sure the 2 native youth organizations obtain a portion from every ticket offered (https://4hbc.rafflenexus.com/a/cowichan-holstein-4-h-club).
Solely 10,000 tickets whole will probably be offered.
