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 [...]

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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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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. [...]

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Federal Inquiry into BC’s Sockeye Draws Criticism

Posted on October 25, 2010 by plugouttunein

As British Columbians were becoming increasingly aware of declining sockeye salmon stocks, 2010 ended the trend with the inundation of the Fraser River in what Mark Hume of The Globe and Mail described as “the biggest sockeye salmon run in nearly 100 years.” The salmon issue, while having become highly political over the past few [...]

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Key to our Transportation Future Lies in the Past

Posted on October 19, 2010 by plugouttunein

By John Vissers and Alexandria Mitchell The BC provincial transportation plan is running out of political fuel, dollars and sense. How long can we continue to promote, finance and build 1970’s infrastructure, expecting it to meet the needs of our rapidly changing 21st century communities? Extravagantly expensive and monolithic elevated rail systems like Skytrain can [...]

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Bill Gates on Energy

Posted on March 8, 2010 by plugouttunein

Maybe I’m being a little too cynical…I just don’t think that Brad Pitt is saving the world. Bill Gates on the other hand, is a different story. While a friend of a friend of mine has chosen to label Mr. Gates as a ‘socialist’ (yes that’s right a socialist…America’s richest man, and corporate icon in [...]

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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.

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