Resources

Climate Action Loans for Homeowners

Transition Salt Spring Enterprise Co-op is offering Climate Action Loans to homeowners for projects that help address climate change and adapt to its effects. Currently we are offering loans up…
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17 Actions to Promote Transition

‘Flipping the script on climate change! In his new book Climate, A New Story, Charles Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we…
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TSS Climate Action Plan 2.0 Released!

Salt Spring is One Cool Island: Get involved in local climate action! Ready to take bold climate action?  We all want solutions — and Salt Spring Islanders are ahead of…
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Coast Alive Recreational and Ecological Services

Coast Alive Recreational and Ecological Services was founded on Salt Spring in 2006.  It is an environmental business that offers a variety of outdoor services that help property owners or…
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Waste Management & Carbon Sequestration

A valuable comment from a Transition member: “Up-cycle rather than recycle.. I have been a member of the Saltspring Solid Waste Advisory Committee (CRD) since it’s startup by Gary Holman…
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Salt Spring Island’s Official Community Plan

We live in a place of extraordinary beauty, great environmental significance, and rare biological diversity. We appreciate and accept our responsibility to be the stewards of our island home, to…
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Report: Salt Spring Energy Futures

On January 24 and 25 2012, Simon Fraser University Carbon Talks hosted an invitational dialogue on the energy future of Salt Spring Island. Dialogue participants included twenty-one thought leaders from…
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Climate Action Progress Report 2012

The BC government are preparing more up to date emissions figures, when those figures are released later this year an updated report for Salt Spring will be prepared and published.…
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Archived Garden Photos from years gone by

Some beautiful photos from previous years… as we transition to our new website we don’t want to lose these beauties! Thank you Moe Wendt for sharing.  
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Farm to Cafeteria: an excellent school garden project

Farm to Cafeteria project at Gulf Islands Secondary School. Greenhouse with hydroponics and aquaponics growing systems and Tilapia, rainwater collection, worm composting and composting systems, and garden. Objectives To provide…
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