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When: Friday November 23, 3:30pm
Where: UBC Forest Sciences Centre, Room 1221 (at the corner of Main Mall and Agronomy Rd)
Join the UBC Ancient Forest Committee and Ken Wu of the Ancient Forest Alliance for a spectacular slideshow on the ecology, wildlife, biggest trees, and politics surrounding BC’s old-growth forests including at Echo Lake east of Vancouver, and the Upper Walbran Valley, Avatar Grove, Mossy Maple Grove (Fangorn Forest), and Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.
Find out how YOU can help to ensure the protection of our ancient forests and a sustainable second-growth forest industry.
When: Saturday November 24th
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Join concerned citizens and students for a brief but powerful rally for ancient forests and sustainable forestry jobs at BC Premier Christy Clark’s office, followed by a major door-to-door education campaign to reach thousands of households in the premier’s riding of Vancouver Kitsilano-Point Grey, during this critical period before the May 2013 provincial election!
Invite others at https://www.facebook.com/events/374991255924831/?fref=ts
Please bring a brief letter/gift request for the GIANT CHRISTMAS STOCKING addressed to Premier Clark asking her to “give a gift that keeps on giving” to British Columbians—the protection of our magnificent old-growth forests and sustainable, second-growth forestry jobs!
Drop off your letter into the giant stocking for the media, hear some speeches, and then fan out across the riding to help reach thousands of households with a petition and letter-writing alert for residents asking Premier Clark to take action! If you’re shy you can simply deliver brochures into mailboxes and if you’re comfortable with speaking to strangers you can get local constituents to sign the petition door-to-door or on busy street corners—organizers will get you set up! It’ll be easy, and vitally necessary to help defend Beautiful British Columbia!
If possible please email us at info@16.52.162.165 to PLEDGE YOUR HELP at this crucial event so we can get a sense of our numbers!
When: Saturday, November 24, 10:00am-8:00pm
Where: Ten Thousand Villages at 1204 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Come support the AFA through the purchase of fair-trade gift items at our upcoming fundraiser sale! Ten Thousand Villages Commercial Drive is donating 15% of proceeds on Saturday November 24th to the AFA’s work to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests. Ten Thousand Villages is a non-profit organization that sells clothing, accessories, health products, cosmetics, instruments, food and other gift items from artisans around the world. A perfect place to buy holiday gifts and support old-growth conservation at the same time!
Invite friends and family to come out and support us!
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Sam Dabrusin wants to save the environment — one hanky at a time.
He’s giving out free handkerchiefs at UBC, hoping that anyone who takes one will use the hanky, rather than a paper towel, to dry their hands after they use the washroom.
It all started when Dabrusin, now a third-year political science student at UBC, went on a high-school exchange to Japan. “For the first month or so, my hands were always wet; I was wiping them on my pants,” he said. “They don’t have paper towels or hand dryers in over 90 per cent of the bathrooms there.
“It’s the cultural norm to carry around a handkerchief…. Then when I got back to North America, I started using [handkerchiefs] again without thinking.”
While canvassing for Greenpeace after his first year of university, Dabrusin tried to think up a project he could start to help the environment, and his mind went to his hanky habit.
“I made the connection in my head that [paper towels] were dead trees that we just throw in the garbage…. I was just using less.”
Dabrusin approached the sustainability committee at the AMS student society, and he learned how much paper towel waste comes from just the Student Union Building. “I found out the SUB goes through about 40 bags of trash a day, just out of the bathrooms,” he said. “At least 90 per cent of that, or more, is going to be paper towels, right?”
He made a pitch to the AMS about a plan to offer free hankies outside bathrooms, but they weren’t able to offer him grant money for the project.
“We didn’t see the connection between buying a handkerchief and then getting people to consistently use a handkerchief instead of paper towel,” said Tristan Miller, AMS VP Finance.
Undeterred, Dabrusin wound up getting $1,100 for his project from another group, the Student Environment Centre. He used it to buy hundreds of handkerchiefs from Hankettes, a Vancouver Island company.
He’s been handing them out at a booth in the SUB since Tuesday, and suggesting that anybody who takes one also donate to the Ancient Forest Alliance. “The response has been pretty good,” he said. “It’s a behaviour change thing, so it’s a big project. We’re aiming to do this next semester as well.”
Dabrusin hopes that the project won’t just save trees, water and energy; he also wants it to get people thinking about how much they consume.
“This is a really good way to get into a discussion about the disposable culture that we have right now…. On campus, we’ll have a meal and we’ll throw out some plastic, we’ll throw out some styrofoam, all without thinking about it.
“We’ll do that on a daily basis, and that’s just for meals, you know? There’s so much other stuff, too, that’s very disposable. I think this would be a good way to start that conversation.”
Direct link to YouTube clip: https://youtu.be/HPstV14oZ6s
Please SIGN our PETITION at https://16.52.162.165/ways-to-take-action-for-forests/petition/
Echo Lake is a spectacular, unprotected, lowland ancient forest near Agassiz, BC on the east side of the Lower Fraser Valley. It is in the unceded territory of the Sts’ailes First Nations band (formerly the Chehalis Indian Band). The area is home to perhaps the largest concentration of bald eagles on Earth, where thousands of eagles come each fall to eat spawning salmon in the Harrison and Chehalis Rivers and hundreds roost in the old-growth trees at night around Echo Lake. It is also home to bears, cougars, deer, mountain goats, and osprey, and was historically populated by the critically endangered northern spotted owl. The vigilance of local landowners on the east side of Echo Lake, whose private lands restrict access to the old-growth forests on the Crown lands on the west side of the lake, have held-off industrial logging of the lake’s old-growth forests for decades. Local conservationists are interested in increased protections for eagles in the Harrison/Chehalis area and the protection of the Echo Lake Ancient Forest where the eagles roost at night.
Filmed and edited by TJ Watt.
Eagle photo by Christian Sasse.
Music – “Razorback Sucker” by Tom Fahy (https://tomfahy.org/)
This Friday night folks in Victoria are generously hosting a fundraiser for the AFA at the Cenote Lounge (768 Yates Street) with awesome live music, DJ’s and food! Doors open at 7:30pm & tickets $10 at the door. The show goes until close at 2am. We’d love to see you there!
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/524612457566693/
The Ancient Forest Alliance is currently campaigning to protect the Echo Lake Ancient Forest between Mission and Agassiz in Sts’ailes First Nation territory. When visiting this region, including the Fraser Valley Eagle Festival on Nov. 17-18th, please show your support for the local communities by spending your dollars in those towns. Lets make it clear that conservation is good for business!
Below are links to the local business listing and tourism webpages:
Sts’ailes, Mission, Agassiz, and Harrison Hotsprings.
Conservationists are pressing government to preserve some old growth forest near Harrison Hot Springs that is habitat to many eagles; a grove surrounding Echo Lake.
Read it on Global News: The eagles have landed – News Hour – Videos | Global BC
https://www.globaltvbc.com/video/the+eagles+have+landed/video.html?v=2300019245&p=1&s=dd#video
