Climate Justice

We are working on Unceded Territory

Transition Salt Spring is grateful to undertake our work as guests on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish People, specifically of the Cowichan, BOḰEĆEN, Halalt, MÁLEXELˉ, Penelakut, ST/ÁUTWˉ, Stz’uminus, WˉJOLˉELˉP, and WˉSIKˉEM peoples. We acknowledge and respect the living historical relationship of Indigenous First Peoples to the land, culture, and spirit of this place that continues to this day.

We are committed to establishing and maintaining mutually respectful relationships between Indigenous and settler peoples. We commit to a process of reconciliation with the understanding that this commitment is a long-term relationship-building and healing process. We commit to this process in the context of the pain that settler leaders and communities have caused the original peoples of this land in the occupation of their territories and the acts of systematic cultural destruction perpetrated by settler leaders and communities.

We will strive to earnestly open spaces for knowledge-sharing and understanding as people come together, starting with this action plan, to prepare this land and our communities for the accelerating challenges of climate change.

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Climate Justice is Social Justice

Our Values include promoting inclusivity and social justice

We recognize that the most marginalized people in our societies are likely to be worst affected by climate change. We want to increase the chances of all groups in society to live healthy and sustainable lives. We know that learning how to increase the diversity of people and groups in our work will strengthen all of our efforts, and we commit to learning about and taking action on systemic racism and inequality.

Climate justice is an approach that embeds climate change within social justice and recognizes that the people most negatively impacted by climate change are those least responsible for creating those impacts and those least able to mitigate or adapt to them. Climate justice also requires that climate solutions use the lens of justice and equity.

Climate justice requires governments to not aggressively rush towards climate actions without considering the ways those actions may disproportionately impact vulnerable people and groups. Taking the right kind of action now will benefit our society in a way that creates more equality and dignity for people who are currently most negatively impacted by climate change. This type of just transition must be worker-focused and low-income-focused, including traditionally marginalized communities such as communities of colour and Indigenous communities. This type of outcome cannot be achieved if we focus on solutions that perpetuate the inequality in our society.

Resources

Introduction to Sociocracy Workshop

Friday January 26th 2024, 1:30-4:30pm Register here Increasingly, organizations dedicated to community development are acknowledging that conventional top-down decision-making and centralized structures don’t align with their values of equity, shared leadership, and empowerment. Despite the seemingly entrenched operational paradigms of non-profits, numerous organizations around the world are challenging this perception. Sociocracy, a governance and organizational…

Creating and Implementing Salt Spring Island’s Climate Action Plan

 In this recording, we share with our Tamarack Institute cohort our impressive and inspiring journey towards developing and implementing a local climate plan, including a massive engagement effort; working with local politicians, Fire & Rescue, artists, and many others; integrating Indigenous knowledge; becoming a registered nonprofit and achieving financial sustainability; staying action focused; and ensuring accountability.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVeBXwOA8gU

Fracking the Peace – Film Screening

Fracking the Peace – Film Screening Join us on Tuesday, May 3rd for a community screening of Fracking the Peace, a powerful new documentary telling the story of residents in Northeastern B.C. whose daily lives, homes, environment and health have been changed by fracking in the region. The event is free and open to all,…

Come Celebrate Our Earth! Postponed to April 23rd, 2022

Come Celebrate Earth Hour! Planned as a part of the globally celebrated “Earth Hour” event March 26th, our rain postponed event will happen April 23rd. Please come to the Meadow to celebrate our united purpose in protecting our earthly home in the fight against climate change. Live music by Barbara Slater and Kevin Wilkie followed…

Nature-based Climate Solutions Report (sneak peek)

Nov 3 2021 This is a sneak peek of a full report on The Risks and Threats of ‘Nature-based Climate Solutions’ for Indigenous Peoples which will be released soon. We are releasing this Sneak Peek, just in time for the COP 26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, even before the rest of the report is complete.…

INDIGENOUS CLIMATE ACTION

Please check out this great website for more info: https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com Climate Justice. Indigenous-led. What We Do Our work inspires, connects and supports Indigenous Peoples, reinforcing our place as leaders in climate change discourse and driving solutions for today and tomorrow. Our work is grounded in four main pathways: Gatherings, Resources and Tools, Amplifying Voices and…

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A VISION for 2028 from CAP

All First Nations’ management plans for their lands and marine resources were adopted and are guiding Islands Trust policy on forest and marine stewardship. There is a Guardian Watchmen program that monitors the health of our land and sea, and a significant amount of collaboration with groups on Salt Spring.