Erinanne Harper
Salt Spring Foundation awards grant for Climate Action
| News, One Cool Island
Transition Salt Spring is grateful to The Salt Spring Island Foundation and extends our thanks the kind and generous donors who have made the grants possible. In fall 2020, the…
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Farmland Trust Job openings
| Food and Agriculture, News
Contact Mairi Welman: welmancommunications@gmail.com for more info or to apply. Deadline Nov 16th and 20th 2020
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SSI Water Preservation Society ~ Native Plant Restoration and Elimination of Broom
| Get Involved, Native Plant Stewardship, News, Volunteer, What can I do?
Broom; beautiful, invasive, weed. When it’s tiny, we pull it, when it’s big, we cut it down (below ground level). Either way, we’re eradicating it from WPS-owned nature reserve watershed…
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Solar at the Gardens! Donations needed.
| News
Salt Spring Community Energy is excited to announce a “Local Food, Local Energy” theme in the latest Salt Spring Community Energy project. Vegetables use solar power to make food for humans.…
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Housing Challenges and Solutions
| News
What do housing, coastal Douglas fir, and Ganges Village have in common? The simple answer – EVERYTHING! A decades-old housing crisis continues on Salt Spring, along with growing climate and forest…
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Let’s bring safe cycling back to Salt Spring: Finish the Salish Sea Trail Network OCT 3rd Rally
| Transportation
The Salish Sea Trail Network is a loop trail winding through Sidney and up through the Cowichan Valley, and could be a perfect destination for cyclists, IF they could safely…
Read More Agricultural Alliance News Release – Coordinated response yields results
| Food and Agriculture, News
Ganges – Four months in and results have been substantial. Since March, an Emergency Agriculture Response and Recovery working group with representatives from the agricultural and government organizations on SSI have…
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Urgent Appeal to Protect Salt Spring Old Growth Trees and Wetlands from Destruction. 40 acres of Larmour Legacy Lands
| Forests, Freshwater, Get Involved, Land Use, News, Volunteer, What can I do?
UPDATE NOV 2020 I’m very happy to be able to tell you that the project to protect the Larmour Lands took a big step forward the day before yesterday, with…
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The Return of EV 101 Classes
| Electric Vehicles, Events
The questions about EV’s keep coming and the members of the EV Group try to field as many as we can. We lost our spring EV 101 class due…
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The CRD solid waste management plan – update
| Land Use, News
The CRD is developing a new solid waste management plan and your input is important. UPDATE – What’s New Volunteer Opportunity – Solid Waste Advisory Committee The CRD is seeking volunteers to serve on…
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