Author: Lisa Richardson
Get frugal with your water use – Lil’wat and Village of Pemberton are on water restrictions
Level 3 Water Restrictions are currently in effect in Pemberton. Take the water-phobia challenge... and instead of using running water to cool off, plonk your feet into a basin of cool water, or wet a towel and drape yourself in the vastest soggy fashions. Would it be a crime if you didn't hose your bike … Continue reading Get frugal with your water use – Lil’wat and Village of Pemberton are on water restrictions
Props to the team at the SLRD’s Emergency Operations Centre for whom summer doesn’t mean vacation
Follow and check regularly at the Squamish Lillooet Regional Distict's facebook page for updates on the wildfire situation on what's known as the Bendor Range Complex (Casper Creek (K71535) and Downton Lake (K71649) wildfires): https://www.facebook.com/TheSLRD. The SLRD is doing an excellent job providing updates as things change rapidly, including the declaration of a provincial state … Continue reading Props to the team at the SLRD’s Emergency Operations Centre for whom summer doesn’t mean vacation
What else can we do, in hard times, but love each other even better? GoFundMe for Ben gets a boost from The Hwy Cafe, where he is a regular.
Maybe it was because of the new moon, or my own moon cycles, but a few days ago, I sat by a river in Squamish, bawling, after I watched the townsfolk of Yellowknife drive out of their community in a sombre convoy, on my instagram feed, and then I saw the lovely people of The … Continue reading What else can we do, in hard times, but love each other even better? GoFundMe for Ben gets a boost from The Hwy Cafe, where he is a regular.
Slow Food Cycle Sunday, August 20, has been cancelled. Please support the efforts to keep people safe, and stay off the roads if you don’t need to be on them.
I went looking on the Slow Food Cycle Sunday website to start planning my bike ride tomorrow, which is admittedly a little oblivious. I have been away for the past week, and tracking events via my iPhone, not my air quality or neighbours' distress levels, and hadn't quite grasped the magnitude of the unfolding emergency. … Continue reading Slow Food Cycle Sunday, August 20, has been cancelled. Please support the efforts to keep people safe, and stay off the roads if you don’t need to be on them.
Watch Lhpatq Maxine Bruce’s TEDx talk, “How Being One With the Land Can Bring Us Together.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA00iItaZ8E "Did you know that trees eat salmon? There is salmon DNA in trees. And I have salmon DNA in me. I am part of this ecosystem. My blood is deep in this land."Lhpatq Maxine Bruce I have so much appreciation for Maxine Bruce. Her sense of humour and bridge-building ability and tireless work for … Continue reading Watch Lhpatq Maxine Bruce’s TEDx talk, “How Being One With the Land Can Bring Us Together.”
Watch T’ec Georgina Dan’s TEDx talk, now available: “I Am an Ancestor”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5UmkV_2HZ4M Back in May, TEDx Whistler welcomed inspiring speakers and thought leaders, like a former Prime Minister, CEOs, Directors, built around the theme of Purpose, the thing that drives you forward. And most wonderfully, into the mix was added the voice of Georgina Dan. Aside from being one of the star tour guides at the … Continue reading Watch T’ec Georgina Dan’s TEDx talk, now available: “I Am an Ancestor”
Take vs contribute: make the shift
I follow Home Grown National Park on instagram, a grassroots movement cofounded by Doug Tallamy in the US, to regenerative biodiversity, by encouraging people to plant native and remove invasives. Recently, he shared this encouragement to shift away from planting vast expanses of lawn monoculture wastelands by positioning one as a yard that "takes" and … Continue reading Take vs contribute: make the shift
August is a good month for farms and food
Third Sunday of August is the date that Slow Food Cycle happens - a date chosen from the first, in consultation with Pemberton farmers, because there's plenty to share and show off and a hint of reprieve from the manic planting and weeding of the last onslaught of weeks meaning there's time to give the … Continue reading August is a good month for farms and food
To measure the health of a community, look for the volunteers
Sometimes I have fantasized about creating a Community Wellness Check-ometer - a kind of annual reporting mechanism by which we track certain metrics and gauge the overall wellbeing and resilience of the larger community. Data can be overwhelming, but I imagine there are a small handful of keystone pieces of information that tell you huge … Continue reading To measure the health of a community, look for the volunteers
The Wellness Almanac 