Resources
Climate Action Loans for Homeowners
Green Loans/ Financing, Resources
|Transition Salt Spring Enterprise Co-op is offering Climate Action Loans to homeowners for projects that help address climate change and adapt to its effects. Currently we are offering loans up…
Read More 17 Actions to Promote Transition
Resources, What can I do?
|‘Flipping the script on climate change! In his new book Climate, A New Story, Charles Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we…
Read More TSS Climate Action Plan 2.0 Released!
News, Resources
|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…
Read More Coast Alive Recreational and Ecological Services
Green Loans/ Financing, Infographics
|Coast Alive Recreational and Ecological Services was founded on Salt Spring in 2006. It is an environmental business that offers a variety of outdoor services that help property owners or…
Read More Waste Management & Carbon Sequestration
Freshwater, Resources
|A valuable comment from a Transition member: “Up-cycle rather than recycle.. I have been a member of the Saltspring Solid Waste Advisory Committee (CRD) since it’s startup by Gary Holman…
Read More Salt Spring Island’s Official Community Plan
Land Use, Resources
|We live in a place of extraordinary beauty, great environmental significance, and rare biological diversity. We appreciate and accept our responsibility to be the stewards of our island home, to…
Read More Report: Salt Spring Energy Futures
Resources
|On January 24 and 25 2012, Simon Fraser University Carbon Talks hosted an invitational dialogue on the energy future of Salt Spring Island. Dialogue participants included twenty-one thought leaders from…
Read More Climate Action Progress Report 2012
Resources
|The BC government are preparing more up to date emissions figures, when those figures are released later this year an updated report for Salt Spring will be prepared and published.…
Read More Archived Garden Photos from years gone by
Food and Agriculture, Resources
|Some beautiful photos from previous years… as we transition to our new website we don’t want to lose these beauties! Thank you Moe Wendt for sharing.
Read More Farm to Cafeteria: an excellent school garden project
Eco Home Directory, Food and Agriculture, Resources
|Farm to Cafeteria project at Gulf Islands Secondary School. Greenhouse with hydroponics and aquaponics growing systems and Tilapia, rainwater collection, worm composting and composting systems, and garden. Objectives To provide…
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