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To Recycling… And Beyond!

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Beyond Recycling, our solutions-focused education program for intermediate students, is a 24-week journey through sustainability, energy, waste, food, water, and climate change. The goal of the program is to inspire and empower youth to take a leadership role…

Let’s Go Outside!

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“The children are the future” is something that people have been saying ever since the future was the past. When taken literally, it’s a pretty bulletproof expression: today's young will be tomorrow’s old.

Have Your Say: Protect The Koocanusa Backcountry

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From the locals and visitors who have spent time there, to the First Nations who have respected this territory for lifetimes, the Koocanusa area—all 560 square kilometres, from Wardner down to the US border—is a diverse ecosystem filled…

Remembering Art Twomey: A Wilderness Pioneer

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Art Twomey died in a helicopter crash in his beloved Purcell Mountains twenty years ago this January. He first arrived in the Purcells in 1969 to carve out a life of mountain adventure. A glacial geologist, accomplished mountaineer and professional…

Reducing Food Waste. No Problem!

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On the Thanksgiving weekend we were lucky to have an impressive turnout for the showing of Just Eat It at Centre 64. Following the film, those interested were invited to sign up for the Just Eat If Challenge and take…
Photo by Lucas Jmieff

Selkirk Secondary Students Go Wild

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Grade nine students from Kimberley's Selkirk Secondary School made the most of the last week of school by joining the annual Go Wild trip to Elk Lakes Provincial Park north of Elkford.