Acting today with tomorrow in mind
Here are the month’s significant climate news items, as curated by Deb Ferens and presented to the Sustainable Gabriola meeting on Sunday, Jan. 28.
Loss and Damage Funds operationalised on day one. Agreement on “global transition away” from fossil fuels (not stronger wording of “phase-out”).
Link: https://unfccc.int/cop28
Sustainable Gabriola co-hosted a special event featuring Joe Brewer at The Surf Lodge on Oct-25. Gabriola was the 11th of 14 stops around the region on Joe’s “Regenerate Cascadia” tour.
Continue reading “Regenerating Gabriola”Here are five significant developments in environmental news over the past month, as tracked by Sustainable Gabriolan Deb Ferens and presented at October’s SG meeting.
Avaaz has partnered with some of the best international lawyers to file a powerful submission on climate change with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Continue reading “October: world climate news”Sustainable Gabriolan Deb Ferens tracks worldwide climate news. At September’s SG meeting, she presented a heartening list of SIX recent good-news climate stories. The group thought it would be a good idea to post these for the community’s linking and reading pleasure.
It’s the first trial of its kind in the US, and legal scholars around the world are following its potential addition to the small number of rulings that have established a government duty to protect people from climate change. nbcnews.com/science/environment/youth-environmentalists-bring-montana-climate-case-trial-12-years-seek-rcna88927
Continue reading “Good news on climate!”October 2023 — This brand new Sustainability News blog is where you will find many of Sustainable Gabriola’s timely event reports, published news articles and media mentions, study results, and updates from Sustainable Gabriola initiatives, including Climate-12 Action Teams. Stay tuned!
Gabriola Sounder, 20 Sep. 2023 — The Climate 12-12-12 project held its final event at Agi Hall on August 24th. The event was a wrap of the previous year, where we focused on a specific climate change topic each month. The project brought us together and directed the community’s collective wisdom and experience to address 12 wicked problems of climate change.
Continue reading “Climate 12-12-12 wraps, rolls into action”
Climate-12 Action had a table at the 17-Sep Fall Fair, where a hundred people stopped to talk, and many cast their dot-vote on the most important “Action area” for the project. Interest all round, but Food Security and Water were, not surprisingly, the top picks.
Action area priorities, dot-voted by the community at the Fall Fair
To inquire about joining one of the Action Teams, email us at Climate12Action@gmail.com.
Newly hatched local news outlet Life on Gabriola TV took an interest in Sustainable Gabriola in September. LoG TV lead journalist Theresa O’Leary interviewed longtime Sustainable Gabriola participant Steven Earle, who tells about SG’s structure, activities, and initiatives past and present. The interview runs about 27 minutes.
For more programming, check out Life on Gabriola TV’s community media portal, their YouTube channel, and their Facebook page.
CBC Radio’s climate-change show and podcast What On Earth talked to Sustainable Gabriolan Fay Weller about SG’s beginnings, and the Gabriola Climate 12-12-12 initiative in particular.
Episode 429, The power of hope in a climate changed world, aired on August 11, 2023. It can be streamed anytime from this page. The whole episode is worth a listen, but host Laura Lynch interviews Fay starting at about the 24:30 mark.
