Students to tackle proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline at ISES 2011.

On Friday June 10, 1:45 pm at the UBC Vancouver campus, select delegates of the International Student Energy Summit (ISES), will participate in a live stakeholder negotiation simulation on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project. This controversial development has garnered both criticism and support from its many stakeholders, and ISES delegates will tackle these [...]

Investment in the Environment = Investment in Economy

Alicia Drover, post secondary student at SFU and past president of the Kiwanis Educating Youth Club at Abbotsford Collegiate is an involved youth leader and environmentalist. This is her first contribution to Plug Out Tune In Recently, I have heard a few people voice the opinion that protecting the environment is important, but that right [...]

Upcoming Event: Environmental Responsibility

A wonderful friend of mine Reverend Dorothy Jeffery of Gladwin United Church is coordinating another interfaith dialogue in Abbotsford. Last year, members of many faith communities came together to ask Abbotsford MP Fast questions relating to the major subheadings of the UN Millenium Development Goals. This year’s event is themed around environmental responsibility and inclusion. [...]

Red Tents: Campaign for a National Housing Strategy

Guest Contributor, Tamara and I met as co-organizers of the UBC Vote Mob. Enjoy her article on the Red Tents Project. (Not an endorsement) Red Tents: Campaign for a National Housing Strategy by Tamara Mackay-Temesy Homelessness in Canada costs about $2 billion every year, based on health care, social service and criminal justice costs. If [...]

UBC VOTE MOB

On April 20th, 2011, I had the pleasure of working alongside five peers at UBC to co-organize the UBC Vote Mob. You may have heard of other votes mobs in the news. The vote mob movement has been spreading across Canada and is facilitated by a new organization called LeadNow. Today’s event saw approximately 250 [...]

This Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Election

No disrespect to your grandmothers and grandfathers (they do their civic duty every few years), but this election, the narrative isn’t about them. It’s 2011 and the election that started with the typical back and forth political spin between major parties and Elizabeth May shouting from the sidelines has taken a new direction. Suddenly, it’s [...]

Inspiring Story: Team Green

Introducing youth leader Armin!  He is energetic, modest, and making change every day; now joining Plug Out Tune In with a piece on his environmental initiative: Team Green. Written by Armin Rezaiean-Asel: Student government, music council, humanitarian clubs, leadership clubs, and various other venues for student involvement were certainly not scarce at my school, Dr. Charles Best Secondary. [...]

Bon Chance for a Bon-Bonn.

Here’s hoping for some sweetness on the climate negotiations in Bonn. From the makers of COP 15 and Kyoto, the UNFCCC brings you the third UNFCCC intersessional of climate talks at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn, Germany. For those of us who have no idea that ‘BONN‘ is a city, and that there were intersessional [...]

Bonn 2 News

Uncertainty in climate change negotiations…an unfortunate reality. One of the biggest complaints from members of the International Youth Climate Movement during the Copenhagen Climate Conference was that world leaders weren’t grasping the urgency of climate change. At COP 15′s opening, a young woman from the Solomon Islands said how she knew that political negotiators had [...]

Landfill in the Sky

A landfill in the sky doesn’t seem like a highly favourable future. Metro Vancouver has spent the last weeks on public consultation across the region and through the FVRD to share information, and call for public feedback on their draft solid waste management plan that includes WTE (incineration/burning combustion of garbage) as the way to [...]

More from last Saturday at SFAN

Check out the video posted by the South Delta News editor: I’m glad to hear that the presentation made last week was enjoyable and informative according to Susan Hodges from Delta.

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