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From a proposed car co-op to protecting a watershed, the Sunshine Coast Regional District’s Draft Sustainability Plan provides an inclusive view of how to maintain the area’s tremendous quality of life.
As part of a community-wide team of consultants, I worked as writer and editor on this valuable report, released in the spring of 2011.
The plan is available in PDF format for review and public feedback.
DOCUMENTARY (21.5 min.) A New Way: An Organic Garden Saves Lives written, directed, and produced by Heather Conn cinematographer and editor: Ivy Miller Story summary: A farmer, miner, and First Nations CEO create an organic demonstration garden using mined land, a “secret” ingredient, and a business/education model unique in Canada. 2013 RELEASE: A New Way:…
I am delighted to have worked as an editor on a new series of interpretive signs for the Community Health Trail on Mt. Elphinstone on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. As part of an initiative by Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), the signs highlight the importance of old-growth forests and their flora and fauna. With himus (Calvin…
Before xwu’p’a’lich Barbara Higgins was born in 1933, members of the shíshálh Nation were waiting for her to take on the role of Rememberer or Knowledge-keeper (her ancestral name means “she weaves”). Since then, she has voiced the importance of preserving Nature, her people’s land, language, and culture through her stories, poems, and activism….
I wrote an eco-tour story for the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Sierra magazine on the bald eagles of Brackendale, B.C. (Sierra, the national publication of the Sierra Club in the U.S., has more than a million readers.) Click here to read my article. Brackendale has set the world record for the most bald eagles counted in a single…
While a contract writer for the Town of Gibsons, I worked with chief administrative officer Emmanuel Machado in 2012/13 to produce news and press releases in local media. Conservation issues were a key theme. My article “Gibsons moves to protect ‘world’s greatest water,’” which appeared in the Nov. 9, 2012 issue of the Coast Reporter,…
Want to read a range of my articles that cover eco-related topics? Click on the magazine cover of your choice to read the enclosed feature. ENVIRONMENT Click here to access a comprehensive archive of decades of my magazine writing in a variety of topics (under construction)