Transportation

Earth Day Bike Ride with Adam Olsen

Earth Day Bike Ride with Adam Olsen

Why: Ride to show your support for safer walking & wheeling trails on Salt Spring. There will also be bicycle blender smoothies afterwards…  What: The group cycling route will take…
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BC Releases Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy

The strategy strengthens BC’s capacity to anticipate, prepare for and respond to the changing climate. This includes sudden events like wildfires, floods and heatwaves as well as changes that happen…
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Let's Get There Green!

Let’s Get There Green! Video

Let’s Get There Green! Transportation Solutions for the Gulf Islands Presented and Recorded on March 31, 2022 Watch Replay Here For those keen to learn more about transportation issues on…
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Let's go shopping for an EV!

Let’s go shopping for an EV!

Video- Let’s go shopping for an EV! Buying an electric vehicle is a huge decision. You can save thousands of $$ on your next electric vehicle through BC’s Point of…
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Unicorns Continue to Inspire on Salt Spring

Three years ago, then Alberta Premier Rachel Notley famously singled out Salt Spring Islandwhile debating environmental activist Tzeporah Berman, saying “Here in Alberta we ridehorses — not unicorns. And I…
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E-Bike Charging Station at Ruckle Park

Fans of e-bikes now have a new place to charge up when visiting Salt Spring Island. Islanders who brave the journey to the deep south from points north of Ganges…
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Partial advocacy success; Ottawa announces new system to improve marine vessel traffic flow in Southern British Columbia

August 12, 2021 from Islands Trust website Lək̓ ʷəŋən, METULIYE/Victoria, B.C. – After more than 15 years advocating for Ottawa to reduce and ultimately eliminate 33 freighter anchorages, Islands Trust…
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CRD board unanimously approved a groundbreaking new policy on transportation prioritization in the region

OPINION: CRD must push province to fund rapid bus instead of expanding highways From Capital Daily: New climate action policy sets important precedent for other regions By Eric Doherty and…
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Quebec overthrows proposed LNG Project

Quebec government has rejected the GNL Québec LNG project, in a victory for the tens of thousands of people who mobilized over the past three years. With this decision, the…
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Toronto Endorses Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

On July 15th Toronto City Council voted in an overwhelming majority to endorse the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Climate Fast thanks everyone who wrote letters, made phone calls, met…
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