Stories

Better recognizing Indigenous legal orders: A reflection on our time spent with the Indigenous Law Research Unit
Our team had the opportunity to attend an Indigenous Laws workshop run by the Indigenous Law Research Unit and it was a transformative experience.

Species Specific: Cloudberry
Across B.C., and much of the temperate world, berries are a surefire…

20 years after the Great Bear Rainforest protests
This piece by Michelle Johnson originally appeared in the Georgia…

Youth environmental leadership group raise over $3000 to stop Enbridge pipeline
Dancing, singing, painting, and eating delicious homemade baked goods – what better way to build community and stop Enbridge?

BC’s forests: Full decade of carbon loss
For a full decade, B.C. forests have been releasing dramatically more carbon into the atmosphere than they have absorbed out of the atmosphere.

A Marsh? A Bog? A Swamp? A Fen?
Wetlands can be a bit baffling. What is a bog? Is it different than a fen? And what the heck is muskeg? The Northern Boreal Mountains ecoprovince is a great place to start in answering these questions.

Species Specific: The Pacific Loon
Learn about the Pacific Loon. As it's name suggests, the Pacific Loon spends most of its year along the Pacific Coast in Canada, Northern US, and Japan.

pull-together.ca: Is this what solidarity looks like?
By Caitlyn Vernon, originally published on Rabble.ca
One year…

TimberWest logging in the Great Bear Rainforest like there is no tomorrow
New information compiled by Sierra Club BCand our allies reveals that logging company TimberWest has dramatically sped up logging in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Sorry B.C., You're not a Climate Change Leader
This piece by Jens Wieting originally appeared in the Huffington…

Powell River citizens urge Island Timberland to hold off logging in their community
Company undermines its own environmental policy by ignoring public…

Finishing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements akin to climbing Mount Everest
Finishing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements feels like climbing Mount Everest: the air is getting thinner, the peak is in sight. With just one last push, we will reach it.

Volunteering for Sierra Club BC
By Sue Andrews
I kind-of fell into volunteering for Sierra Club…