By DARLENE GAGE, Transition Salt Spring excerpt From the Driftwood, Dec 14, 2021 There is something changing in the air. Can you feel it? Rain, heat, smoke. Fear, division, loss.…

October 20, 2021 Excerpt BY ANDREA PALFRAMAN Published in the Driftwood One Cool Island Series It’s an October morning in Ganges Harbour. Crowded around the Rotary dinghy dock are assorted…

One Cool Island- An Interview with Robin Annschild BY ANDREA PALFRAMAN, Published in the Driftwood Aug. 10, 2021. Robin Annschild’s love affair with the Burgoyne estuary started back in 2000…

By ANDREA PALFRAMAN published in the Driftwood July 20, 2021 In the midst of summer’s idyll, there is an ominous haze on the horizon. Clobbered by a record-smashing heatwave, and…

Published in the Driftwood, Jun 15, 2021 BY ANDREA PALFRAMAN The old-growth conifers of B.C. are the botanical equivalent of iconic animals like the Bengal tiger, or closer to home,…

(Article published in the Driftwood, May 12, 2021) By ANDREA PALFRAMAN, Transition Salt Spring On any sunny Sunday, especially now, town can seem so quiet. It wouldn’t seem out of…

(Article published in the Driftwood Apr. 14 2021) BY ANDREA PALFRAMAN  On our raincoast island, it can seem like there’s “water, water, everywhere.” In a landscape dotted with lakes and…

On behalf of the board of directors of Transition Salt Spring, we write to all Salt Springers in response to the direct mail recently mailed to all islanders from the stoptheislandstrust.com initiative…

Salt Spring is One Cool Island: Get involved in local climate action! Ready to take bold climate action?  We all want solutions — and Salt Spring Islanders are ahead of…