An after-hours pop-up kitchen-table meet-up invites your playfulness, imagination and community passion out to play

The Whistler Pemberton Literacy Partnership is hosting an after-hours pop-up kitchen table meet-up, at Stay Wild Natural Health, tonight, 6:30 - 8:30pm.  It’s a low-key friendly chance to engage in the Village of Pemberton’s official community planning process, and go through the kitchen table engagement package, with the people you are making community with. Jill Dawson, an … Continue reading An after-hours pop-up kitchen-table meet-up invites your playfulness, imagination and community passion out to play

You are living someone else’s vision for Pemberton right now. What is yours?

There is a fantastic quote from the Bohemian poet Rilke, that reminds us that we are part of the ongoing future-making of any single moment. In his Letters to a Young Poet, he says, "the future enters us ... in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens.... what we call fate does … Continue reading You are living someone else’s vision for Pemberton right now. What is yours?

We exist in relationship. This is not new.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnrY_dNKY6s/ Well, I'm on a community resilience roll (rant) this week, so let's keep exploring what it means to think beyond the Me Me Me. Sophie Strand is a writer who explores the intersections of ecology, healing and mythology. In a recent post, she talked about how our consciousness is collective... our ideas of separation … Continue reading We exist in relationship. This is not new.

Global trust loss is a local issue (and you get out what you put in)

Yesterday's post about the Edeleman Trust Barometer and what's happening around the world attracted my attention because I'd already been wondering about trust, after reading the results of Whistler's Community Life Survey, a month ago. As the Pique reported, back in early January, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) unveiled the results of its 2022 Community … Continue reading Global trust loss is a local issue (and you get out what you put in)

Trust is tanking. What might we do about it?

A recent newsletter from journalist and democracy-watcher David Moscrop advised the results of the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer - "trust" is tanking. And alongside it? Optimism. And a contributing factor? The growing wealth divide. Writes Moscrop: Trust is a currency. It’s a stuff you trade for other stuff. In that sense, it’s a form of … Continue reading Trust is tanking. What might we do about it?

Whistler Blackcomb Foundation invites you to the 30th TELUS Winter Classic. Tickets on sale now.

Over the past 10 years that the Wellness Almanac has been working away, posting and sharing news and updates designed to celebrate community, build a stronger sense of place, and deepen our understanding of colonization, racism, reconciliation and right relations, the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation has been a quiet champion of this work. While the blog … Continue reading Whistler Blackcomb Foundation invites you to the 30th TELUS Winter Classic. Tickets on sale now.

You, me and a friendly sleeping volcano, makes a community. SFU invites you to share how much you know about volcanoes in quick survey, before March 31

Simon Fraser University's Centre for Natural Hazards Research (CNHR) is conducting a... (sound the trumpets....) VOLCANIC HAZARDS AWARENESS & KNOWLEDGE SURVEY Wildfires, landslides and floods are natural hazards that Canadians often see or hear about on the news. How about volcanoes? In cooperation with the Geological Survey of Canada, CNHR is conducting an online, 12 to … Continue reading You, me and a friendly sleeping volcano, makes a community. SFU invites you to share how much you know about volcanoes in quick survey, before March 31

Stay Wild sets wage bar and becomes a Living Wage certified business

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnU2G7FPxxI/ We live in, no surpises to anyone here, one of the most expensive places to make ends meet in British Columbia The recent announcement from locally owned and operated Stay Wild Natural Health, to become Living Wage certified, has drawn attention to the gap that exists between what it takes to live here and … Continue reading Stay Wild sets wage bar and becomes a Living Wage certified business

Do you hibernate in the winter? Or do you “bromate?”

So, it seems the rubber boa takes a winter bromance to the next level, and denning down with its peers is actually not called hibernating, but bromating. This wonderful tip comes thanks to Stewardship Pemberton Society's new snack-sized newsletter, the Green Bulletin. (Also it's not just for snake dudes. It's a gender-inclusive term, that applies … Continue reading Do you hibernate in the winter? Or do you “bromate?”