The Salt Spring Climate Action Plan will be fully released on Tuesday March 2nd. The webinar will be live, and the presenters will be Bryan Young of Transition Salt Spring and one of the lead authors of the plan, Elizabeth May, our MP, and Gary Holman, our CRD Director. To participate in the live public online…

Saturday November 30th, 10am to noon Work on the update to the Salt Spring Climate Action Plan is getting underway. As a community we need to discuss how we are going to going to meet our targets for greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time plan for the adaptation measures needed to meet the…

The Islands Trust will shortly be holding a meeting, you are invited to sign a petition to the  Trust to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY in the Trust Area. It will be submitted to Trust Council on March 12-14, 2019 https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/975/183/497/        Please share freely. Alternatively, you can  send an email to Trust Council at:  info@islandstrust.bc.ca  

A Climate Action Workshop was recently held by the Climate Action Group in association with the CRD Director and the Islands Trust, plus representatives from other groups on the island.  The report is being prepared but a closing statement was agreed by all present: “The climate crisis is real, it is already affecting Salt Spring,…

This is a reminder that the Islands Trust will be hosting, with Living Oceans, a sea level rise workshop on Monday, January 28, 2019 on Salt Spring Island (details below). This workshop is designed to help communities begin planning for the impacts of sea level rise. The goal is to share information on sea level…

The Islands Trust Council is having its next quarterly meeting on March 13-15 which will be held on Salt Spring at the Harbour House Hotel. The Council schedule  includes a working session for Trustees on “ Adapting to Climate Change” that will take place from 9.30-11.00 am on Wednesday the 14th, this session is open…

From CBC News, 13th February 2018 “British Columbia has no clear plan to prevent threats such as wildfires, flooding and drought as it works to adapt to the risks posed by climate change, the province’s auditor general says. Carol Bellringer says there is little monitoring of progress and reporting on performance involving the ministries of…

2017 was recorded as the third warmest year in the period 1880 to 2017, only beaten by 2016 and 2015.  This was despite the lack of an El Nino, which is believed to have affected the temperatures in the two previous years.  The anomaly was around 0.9 C above the average for the period. Reference: …

Last Monday at the meeting of the Climate Action Council Society it was agreed that we should reform under the umbrella of the Transition Salt Spring Society. Initially we will become the Climate Action Council group. The motion was also passed to dissolve the Society as a separate entity, this may take a few months to…