• ✅ Get involved in the federal election and support a Climate Champion candidate
• ✅ Prepare for the fire season by cleaning up around your property
• ✅ Plan your garden to grow your own food this year
• ✅ Share the Cortes Roundup with your friends!

Enjoy the latest climate news for Cortes & beyond for March, 2025

🌎 Drive with Coastal Rides on Cortes Island – Make money & make a difference providing more passenger transportation AND reducing carbon pollution!Coastal Rides wishes to expand its service to Cortes Island, and need drivers to help them get rolling! 🚗 
Apply now: coastalrides.ca/apply-now

🌎 Thank you Roy Hales! Cortes Currents on Climate news:

• – A Peek into Big Oil’s Playbook with Environmental Defence
• – BC Conservatives pitch a carbon tax on US coal as a trade-war measure
• – The Quadra Project: the Sinking of Carbon Sinks
• – Jennifer Lash, the Liberal Candidate for North Island-Powell River
• – NDP Candidate Tanille Johnson Visits Cortes Island

🌎 Blatchford is the largest planned carbon-neutral community in North America.
This visionary project in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, may have been ahead of its time when it started, but now it’s taking off and leading the way.
Read more here.

🌎 Climate Jobs for Youth in Courtenay, BC
Youth Climate Corps BC is excited to announce the launch of our inaugural program in Courtenay, BC—along with an incredible opportunity to join the Youth Climate Corp BC (YCCBC) Team! As we prepare for the program’s launch, we’re hiring a Program Lead, a Program Coordinator, and Community Climate Action Mobilizers to help bring YCCBC Courtenay to life.
Learn more here

🌎 An invitation to watch a new documentary
Join Seniors for Climate on April 3 for a special viewing of the new documentary “Later is Too Late,” which captures the energy and impact of our first-ever National Seniors’ Day of Climate Action on October 1, 2024. On that day, seniors, youth, Indigenous elders, and climate activists rallied in 76 communities across Canada—from Pugwash, NS, to Victoria, BC, to Yellowknife, NT—to demand urgent climate action.
Watch the trailer
To register for the webinar and watch the full documentary, click HERE

🌎 BC is Burning documentary
Set for release in spring 2025, BC is Burning highlights real solutions for the ongoing wildfire crisis featuring in-depth interviews with: forestry professionals, carbon scientists, entomologists, and BC Wildfire Service.  Also included are extensive interviews with government leaders from fire-ravaged California, who share a common fear about the devastating impact of catastrophic fires.
Watch the trailer

🌎 The Butterflyway Project
….is a citizen-led movement growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies across Canada. Wild pollinators such as butterflies and bees are crucial to human survival. Climate change, land development and pesticide use threaten their survival, and therefore ours as well.
The Butterflyway Project helps people create viable pollinator habitat in neighbourhoods across Canada.
Get involved here!

🌎 Tell Adrian Dix to Stop Wall Street’s latest pipeline
The FACTS:

• – The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is entirely financed by Wall Street billionaires.
• – First Nations have no equity stake in Ksi Lisims LNG. It’s a Wall Street project.
• – Approving these projects would enrich some of Donald Trump’s closest allies.
• – We must not give more control of our strategic energy resources to the U.S.
• – LNG projects are already raising energy prices for consumers in B.C.
• – These floating gas terminals are built overseas, employing zero Canadians.
• – We can create more jobs in B.C. by building renewable energy.
• Ready?Dogwood can help you make the call

This medley of climate stories, events and action will be coming to you at least once per month. Thank you for reading!

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