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General News · 24th January 2025
Cortes Roundup
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🌎 The new Cortes Climate Action Network is hosting its first event: Climate Café! Friday Jan 24, 1–3PM in the Pioneer Room at Manson’s Hall. Free coffee, tea, cookies and conversation! A Regional District planner from the SRD will be present to answer your question about the new Zoning bylaw.
Zoning is the topic - zoning refers to local regulations that govern how real property can and cannot be used in certain geographic areas, learn more here.
🌎 The Cortes Community Resilience (CCR) potluck happens on Thursday Feb 13, 5:30 at Linnaea…CCR is an informal group of inspiring people who gather regularly to share a meal and talk about ways to build community, including taking actions together to reduce our contributions to, and help us prepare for, a future shaped by the climate crisis.
🌎 Climate News from Roy Hales with Cortes Currents: How climate change impacts insurance costs, On the Threshold of a 1.5°C World, 3 Things you Need to Know about Wildfires in BC
🌎 Spotlight on….Dan Kingsbury
Dan is a retired dentist living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. He is an organizing member of the Suzuki Elders, who regularly meet through BC-Hub’s Climate Action Outreach Zoom Meetings to mentor action on climate. To get involved in this very active group, contact them via Suzuki Elder website, also check out Seniors for Climate
🌎 Nature’s best lawnmower: How solar grazing is changing the photovoltaic landscape: The American Solar Grazing Association estimates that around 80,000 sheep now graze more than 40,000 hectares across 500 solar panel sites in 27 states. This number indicates a tenfold increase in just two years.
🌎 GREAT Podcast Alert: Deep Dive, the Battle to Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising. For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used marketing to buy our support and delay climate action – with remarkable success. Now some cities have had enough. They're banning ads for cruises, cars and flying – and they say that's just the beginning.
🌎 Are Canada's Pension Plans ready for climate change? Canada’s biggest public pension funds manage over $2 trillion.
These pension funds’ ability to generate returns for their members over the long-term depends on a stable climate. Organizations like Stand and Shift Action are working hard to stop pension funds from gambling our money in fossil fuel expansion!
🌎 'Hope isn't what we have, it's what we do,' says climate activist and anti-whaler Paul Watson on activism, prison and not giving up hope. Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years - and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Please check out the first UNIQID[Roundup celebrating Cortes climate efforts of 2024.]
🌎 The new Cortes Climate Action Network is hosting its first event: Climate Café! Friday Jan 24, 1–3PM in the Pioneer Room at Manson’s Hall. Free coffee, tea, cookies and conversation! A Regional District planner from the SRD will be present to answer your question about the new Zoning bylaw.
Zoning is the topic - zoning refers to local regulations that govern how real property can and cannot be used in certain geographic areas, learn more here.
🌎 The Cortes Community Resilience (CCR) potluck happens on Thursday Feb 13, 5:30 at Linnaea…CCR is an informal group of inspiring people who gather regularly to share a meal and talk about ways to build community, including taking actions together to reduce our contributions to, and help us prepare for, a future shaped by the climate crisis.
🌎 Climate News from Roy Hales with Cortes Currents: How climate change impacts insurance costs, On the Threshold of a 1.5°C World, 3 Things you Need to Know about Wildfires in BC
🌎 Spotlight on….Dan Kingsbury
Dan is a retired dentist living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. He is an organizing member of the Suzuki Elders, who regularly meet through BC-Hub’s Climate Action Outreach Zoom Meetings to mentor action on climate. To get involved in this very active group, contact them via Suzuki Elder website, also check out Seniors for Climate
🌎 Nature’s best lawnmower: How solar grazing is changing the photovoltaic landscape: The American Solar Grazing Association estimates that around 80,000 sheep now graze more than 40,000 hectares across 500 solar panel sites in 27 states. This number indicates a tenfold increase in just two years.
🌎 GREAT Podcast Alert: Deep Dive, the Battle to Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising. For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used marketing to buy our support and delay climate action – with remarkable success. Now some cities have had enough. They're banning ads for cruises, cars and flying – and they say that's just the beginning.
🌎 Are Canada's Pension Plans ready for climate change? Canada’s biggest public pension funds manage over $2 trillion.
These pension funds’ ability to generate returns for their members over the long-term depends on a stable climate. Organizations like Stand and Shift Action are working hard to stop pension funds from gambling our money in fossil fuel expansion!
🌎 'Hope isn't what we have, it's what we do,' says climate activist and anti-whaler Paul Watson on activism, prison and not giving up hope. Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years - and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Please check out the first UNIQID[Roundup celebrating Cortes climate efforts of 2024.]
