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BC Transit, SSI Transit Future Service Plan Survey
| News, Transportation
BC Transit, Transit Future Service Plan Survey – Available online April 6 – May 4 Shape the Future of Transit on Salt Spring Island! BC Transit and the Capital Regional…
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Salt Spring Climate Action Plan- Summary Presentation
| News, One Cool Island, Videos
Join Transition Salt Spring Board Chair Bryan Young as he shares a bold, collaborative vision for a resilient future.
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Transition Salt Spring Climate Action Network launches
| News, One Cool Island
December 2020 BY BRYAN YOUNG Have you ever had a party where everyone invited came? That was the scene on November 30th when the Community Alliance hosted a special online…
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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…
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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