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2023 Permaculture Design Course
Events, Food and Agriculture, News, Uncategorized
|2023 Permaculture Design Course with Nick Jones and GuestsWednesday evenings from 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm April 19th, 2023 – September 27th, 2023 @ Paradise Within Farm, Salt Spring Island…
Read More TSS Launches Updated Wood Smoke Reduction Rebates for 2023
Climate Coach, News
|Transition Salt Spring Launches Updated Wood Smoke Reduction Rebates for 2023 Starting in March, rebates of up to $1000 will be available to Southern Gulf Island residents upgrading an old…
Read More Maxwell Creek Watershed Field Files
CARL, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, News
|The Maxwell Creek Watershed Project (AKA the CARL Project) is a collaborative, multidisciplinary forest restoration project based on Salt Spring Island under the leadership of Transition Salt Spring with the…
Read More Waste reduction news
News, Plastic Free
|Federal government bans single-use plastics Effective December 20, 2022, the manufacture and import for sale of the following harmful single-use plastics in Canada will be prohibited: The ban on the…
Read More Climate Action Report Card
Fire and drought, Food and Agriculture, Forests, Freshwater, Front Page, News, Videos
|Can We Handle the Climate Challenges Coming Our Way? From the Driftwood Sept 20 2023 TSS just wrapped up the Climate Report Card 2023, an update on how we’re doing…
Read More BioChar Activities and workshop on Salt Spring
Biochar, Events, Fire and drought, News, Past Events
|December Biochar Workshop: presented by Brian Smallshaw Changed from Saturday, Dec 10 to SUNDAY, 11 December 2022 1-4pm Geri Alton’s horse paddock, 125 Stevens Road South end: Beaver Point Road, past…
Read More Salt Spring Local Elections 2022
Events, Front Page, News, Upcoming Events
|SSI Local Government Elections All Candidates Forum Hear what our local Islands Trust and CRD candidates have to say on issues related to climate change, the environment, and housing.…
Read More Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 2: Developing surveying methodologies
CARL, Ecological Research Network, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, News
|Exerpt from: https://www.raincoast.org/2022/08/maxwell-creek-watershed-project-field-files-part-2-developing-surveying-methodologies/ Andrew Simon shares about the methodologies used in the Maxwell Creek Watershed project. By Shauna Doll, Gulf Islands Forest Project Coordinator August 5, 2022 The project takes…
Read More CBC Features Ruth Waldick and the Mt. Maxwell Project Team
CARL, Fire and drought, Forests, News
|Maxwell Lake, along with the watershed, provides water for about half of Salt Spring Island and the team is taking a look at how to protect this crucial freshwater source.…
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