Hello friends, and welcome to another edition of Wednesday Wins! What a wild last few weeks it’s been. Why wild? Well, in the waste/plastics/climate change spheres, this is a busy time: Waste Reduction Week in Canada happened Oct 18 – 24 Halloween – pumpkins and candy wrappers, need I say more? COP26 – a global…
Wow! Friends! Two weeks ago I wrote about eco-anxiety and it seemed to strike a chord with you. Turns out, we’re probably all suffering some form of the latest and greatest mental health challenge. Other terms I heard bandied around: climate stress and eco-grief. I also heard from some of you about how you’re working…
Hello readers, and welcome to another week of WINS. Yup – you heard that right. In spite of everything, I’m here to highlight three positive things to help combat eco-anxiety, something I imagine we are all feeling right now. Here in BC, it feels like the entire province is on fire. There is civil unrest…
Hello readers and welcome back to Wake-Up Wednesday Wins, this time featuring more weekend! This week, all our stories relate to the demise of single-use plastics. Something that this blogger is quite giddy about! (Yes, that’s right – you’re reading about the wins not on a Wednesday, but on the cusp of a weekend. And,…
Hi there, readers, and welcome to another edition of Wednesday Wins! This week’s wins are all are ocean wins (to me)! We’ve got some small businesses tackling waste through their products, stories of art-meets-activism, and projects combatting marine pollution. Why the Focus on Ocean Wins? Well, if it hasn’t become abundantly clear, I have two…
Hello dear readers! This week’s “wins” are a bit of a compendium of the last couple of weeks. I er…fell off the publishing wagon, it seems! >.< But here we are, back again. This month has felt like a whirlwind of information and updates. I’m not sure if you heard but the US just got…
Changing the world doesn’t have to mean something big or extravagant. Sure, chaining oneself to a tree or a smokestack is indeed an impactful action. But smaller actions, easily done in ones own home or community, are probably a bit more accessible. By changing our own lives, we also change the world. Fun how that…
Hello readers and welcome to the last post of 2020! What a year it’s been. I think it goes without saying, but 2020 was a doozy. To close out this year and welcome in a fresh, shiny new one, here are four stories from what I like to call Everyday Earth Heroes. You’ll hear more…
Hi readers and welcome to the first Wednesday Wins of December! In honour of our Northern Hemisphere’s slow dirge toward darkness on the 21st, I’m filling this week’s wins with an assortment of stories that bring with them hope and light. Let’s face it: December is a hard month. Winter is a hard season. (At…
This week’s Wake-Up Wednesday Wins fall on a particularly frustrating week for environmentalists: the week of Black Friday. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, have no Internet, or don’t use email, you’re aware that this week is home to one of humanity’s most frustrating holidays: Black Friday. I say frustrating, because let’s face it:…
Hello readers! Welcome back to the weekly edition of Wake-Up Wednesday Wins. This week’s edition features stories of small acts that (I think) are making a big impact on this planet. Why small acts? I’ll let Dr. Zinn here tell you why: “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the…
It’s been a minute since we woke up to any wins on this blog! I won’t waste any time: let’s get back to it. To recap the concept: each Wednesday, I’ll feature a set of “success stories” that feature good news only. Specifically, I’m targeting stories that give our oceans (and humanity) a boost. Waste…