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

Posted on June 9, 2011 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

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Investment in the Environment = Investment in Economy

Posted on May 24, 2011 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Alexandria Mitchell, alicia drover, christy clark, environment economy, harper, Plug Out Tune In, sfu | 1 Comment »

Upcoming Event: Environmental Responsibility

Posted on May 22, 2011 by plugouttunein

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. [...]

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Red Tents: Campaign for a National Housing Strategy

Posted on May 11, 2011 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

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UBC VOTE MOB

Posted on April 21, 2011 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Alexandria Mitchell, deborah meredith, democracy, joyce murray, leadnow, many are one, ubc vote mob, university of guelph, vancouver quadra | Leave a Comment »

This Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Election

Posted on April 19, 2011 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Alexandria Mitchell, apathy is boring, april 20th, election, elxn41, ignatieff, leadnow, stephen harper, the knoll, UBC, university of guelph, vote mob, youth vote, yvonne su | Leave a Comment »

Inspiring Story: Team Green

Posted on December 28, 2010 by plugouttunein

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. [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Alexandria Mitchell, armin rezaiean-asel, BC, Dr Charles Best Secondary, loran, Plug Out Tune In, team green, UBC, youth activism | 2 Comments »

Bon Chance for a Bon-Bonn.

Posted on August 6, 2010 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Adopt a negotiator, Alexandria Mitchell, biodiversity, Bonn 3, christina figueres, Climate Change, COP 16, dialogue, economy, environment, innovation, IYCM, Kyoto, people, sustainability, Yvo de Boer | Leave a Comment »

Bonn 2 News

Posted on June 25, 2010 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Alexandria Mitchell, Bonn 2, cancun, Climate Change, COP 15, COP 16, Figueres, IYCM, Yvo de Boer | 1 Comment »

Landfill in the Sky

Posted on June 4, 2010 by plugouttunein

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 [...]

Filed under: Plug Out Tune In | Tagged: Alexandria Mitchell, Andrea Reimer, Barry Penner, David Cadman, Fraser Valley, Gordon Campbell, Gregor Robertson, incineration, Marvin Hunt, Patricia Ross, WTE, Zero waste | 1 Comment »

More from last Saturday at SFAN

Posted on January 24, 2010 by plugouttunein

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.

Filed under: Resources | Tagged: Abbotsford, Alexandria Mitchell, COP 15, Delta, Plug Out Tune In, South Fraser Perimeter Road | 1 Comment »

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