by suzukiwebmaster | Aug 24, 2016 | Advocacy, Rules of Engagement
by Simon Wheeler The Premier of B.C. announced the British Columbia government’s climate action plan in Richmond on 19 August 2016. Late on a hot Friday afternoon last week the BC Provincial Government released their long awaited and much delayed Climate Leadership...
by suzukiwebmaster | May 2, 2016 | Advocacy
Paper presented at the Richmond Earth Day Youth Summit 2016 by Kate Hodgson I wasn’t always a part of the climate movement. For a long time I ignored climate change because it terrified me and because I assumed someone else, older and far more capable, was...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 28, 2016 | Advocacy
Paper presented at the Richmond Earth Day Youth Summit 2016 by Ryan Liu Is nature not something beautiful, caring, extraordinary? Does it not surround us and care or us every second of the day like a mother, hence the term Mother Nature? But would you really treat...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 28, 2016 | Advocacy
Keynote Speech – Richmond Earth Day Youth Summit 2016 by Jay Matsushiba I was lost. Life got tougher and all I seemed to hear was more and more bad news. This bombardment of pessimism… Coral reefs will be gone by 2050, climate change is destroying our...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jul 26, 2015 | Advocacy, Our Changing World
by Stan Hirst Pope Francis, 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, has set the cat amongst the pigeons. On 18 June 2015 he formally presented his second encyclical to the world at a news conference in the Vatican. Entitled “Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jun 19, 2013 | Advocacy
by Roger Sweeny From a newsletter to parishioners of St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican Church, West Vancouver, B.C., June 2013 THE MESSAGE: During Pentecost and now, as we ponder the Trinity, the message has been about opening our hearts to receive the Spirit of Truth,...