When I learned that less than 4% of all charitable giving goes to our environment and more than 80% to disease charities, I felt compelled to help the eco charities. The result is the First Annual Creatively United for the Planet Earth Week Festival that will be held this April 20-22 in Victoria, BC at 600 Richmond Road at Richardson.

This indoor/outdoor event will feature Robert Bateman, Ann Mortifee, Paul Horn, the Gettin' Higher Choir, Mae Moore, Daniel Lapp, Lola Parks and many…

The Gatherer snugly fits into the municipal…

As part of my intention this week, "Recycling Infrastructure" to "Build Sustainable Organizations," I decided to try to make some more headway with the Sustainability Committee at my work. Since I last wrote about it, I have garnered two new members (which is about the maximum my manager allotted me anyway) and am working toward setting up a time when we can all meet to discuss our action plan for addressing unsustainable practices in our workplace.

This next step has been put on…

So the intention was to "Eat Healthy Sustainably Grown Food", but for me this started out quite simply with the single word EAT. I engage in this activity on a shockingly infrequent basis and thus I had a bit of a tough time this week. The first time I remembered my intention, I only succeeded in reminding myself that I should eat something and found myself at the McDonald's drive-thru of all places - somewhere I almost never go - ordering grilled cheese with mustard, ketchup,…