Join Transition Salt Spring Board Chair Bryan Young as he shares a bold, collaborative vision for a resilient future.
Taking action on climate change is about so much more than just burning less fossil fuels, it’s about a vision for how we live together as a community and how we can create a more awesome, humane, technologically and culturally rich and socially inspiring future for us all. It was so exciting to see the overwhelming response to our community engagement; to hear about people’s concerns, people’s successes (as well as their failures) and most of all people’s ideas. We heard that, as a community, we need to:
~ Stand with the most vulnerable among us as well as in the best interest of our common goals.
~ Come up with creative solutions that take into account people and not just policies.
~ Bring in new voices from often-unheard segments of the community.
~ Treat the people that are in fear for their jobs generously and with thanks, rather than demonizing those jobs and not providing a safety net as those jobs are retired out.
~Find a way to move forward on climate in a manner that also addresses our other pressing community concerns such as affordable housing, mental health, jobs and inequality.
The Climate Action Plan is a direct result of that engagement and compiles the best of the ideas put forth by islanders with cutting-edge scientific research, mapping, and participatory action within island institutions.
Watch, share, and join us to chart a new way forward for our island.
Check out resources related to Salt Spring Island Climate Action elsewhere on the Transition Salt Spring website:
https://transitionsaltspring.com/climate-action-group/