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Adam Huggins and Mendel Skulski of Future Ecologies Podcast, standing in the forest with a microphone

Future Ecologies

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Claire Majors

November 24, 2023

Waubgeshig Rice photo on the land

Indigenous Futurism: Hope and Renewal

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Odette Auger

November 22, 2023

Sue Big Oil collage image: Earth burning, oil exec, climate activist signs

Free Webinar Dec 7: Sue Big Oil

November 7, 2023

Sleydo' and Jennifer Wickham singing and drumming

Replenishing front-line activists

October 25, 2023

crop of wetplate image of Big Lonely Doug by Ken Miner

Lonely Doug

Sidney Coles

October 24, 2023

Célio Pinheiro Leocádio, standing in front of tree plantation clearcut, holds up a eucalyptus seedling

Brazil’s “Green Deserts”

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by Kaitlyn Duthie-Kannikkatt

October 12, 2023

Sinixt Elder and cultural leader Shelly Boyd in regalia, standing on a beach facing the water

Photo Essay: Coming Home

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Mike Graeme

October 3, 2023

Burnt ground and unburnt aspen trunks after the Monte Creek fire, 2021.

Stop the Spray: Glyphosate, Forest Monoculture, and Fire

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Jen Groundwater

September 27, 2023

Aerial photo of flood devastation over Abbotsford and Chilliwack BC, November 23, 2021

Sue Big Oil challenges the short-term profits driving the climate crisis

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Andrew Gage

August 31, 2023

Discarded styrofoam float polluting a beach

Time’s Up For Toxic Docks

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Jen Groundwater

August 14, 2023

Female Patagonian seahorse (Hippocampus patagonicus) | photo by Amanda Vincent / Project Seahorse

Magical and Powerful Ocean Ambassadors

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Odette Auger

July 24, 2023

Two youth sampling water from a lake, part of Water First youth internship.

Knowledge On Tap

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Desiree Mannila

July 17, 2023

Ira Reinhart-Smith, one of fifteen youth in La Rose et al vs. Her Majesty the Queen. They are taking the federal government to court, “to uphold what is basically required for survival.” Photo by Odette Auger

Parts per million rising– but so is awareness

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Odette Auger

July 15, 2023

Dusk light over water, as author reflects on the Kearl Mining tailings leak.

Water Heart

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Cassandra Blondin Burt

July 10, 2023

Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River | Photo: US Army Corps of Engineers

Where Will BC Get the Electricity for Future LNG?

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Sidney Coles

July 6, 2023

Beavers restoring wetlands. Detail, "Let the beaver do the work," by Roger Peet, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative

Beavers Restoring Wetlands

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Natalia Nybida

July 4, 2023

Manhattan skyline, showing the Empire State Building and UN Headquarters, under a haze of wildfire smoke in early June 2023 | Photo: Jackson Todd

Linked Fates

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Jackson Todd

June 26, 2023

Against the Grain

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Amir Said

June 23, 2023

Stewardship, not greed say Kwakwaka'wakw Gig̲a̲me (Hereditary Chiefs) standing together after placing down their Coppers | Photo provided by Desiree Mannila from Gig̲a̲me Walas Namugwis' April 1, 2023 feast at the Tsakis Gukwdzi (Fort Rupert Bighouse)

Stewardship, Not Greed

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Desiree Mannila

May 24, 2023

Smokestack against sunny sky

5.8 billion in subsidies, only capturing 0.05% of carbon

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Mitchell Beer

May 12, 2023

Most Popular Articles

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water bottling plant

Merville Water Guardians

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by Jen Groundwater

November 29, 2022

Burnt ground and unburnt aspen trunks after the Monte Creek fire, 2021.

Stop the Spray: Glyphosate, Forest Monoculture, and Fire

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Jen Groundwater

September 27, 2023

Herring Fishery Collapsing on Canada’s Pacific Coast

Conservancy Hornby Island

April 2, 2022

Coho salmon spawning | Photo: Bureau of Land Management

BC Salmon Returns 2022

Greg Taylor

February 14, 2023

Shipbreaking, Union Bay, BC

(Ship) Breaking Bad

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by Gavin MacRae

March 25, 2022

Pulp Fiction cover

New Pulp Giant

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by Delores Broten

December 1, 2022

Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River | Photo: US Army Corps of Engineers

Where Will BC Get the Electricity for Future LNG?

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Sidney Coles

July 6, 2023

Crooked River

Hydro Dams and Stranded Fish – BC Can Do Better

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By Desiree Mannila

October 6, 2022

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