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If you aren’t already following Sierra Club BC on Facebook then please consider it if you are interested in relevant and important information on timely topics that impact us all.

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Hear how an internationally-renown filmmaker, photojournalist, singer/songwriter duo, and a fine art photographer are all creating change through their craft. Featuring striking imagery and insight into the power of art.

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Local food experts share a wealth of knowledge on everything from growing citrus fruit to food security, featuring Vancouver Island non-profits and leading edge small businesses dedicated to healthy, nutritious and delicious food.

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Thanks to an amazing team of people, I’m delighted to be the host and producer of Solutions, the first Creatively United produced television program, launching today at 12:30 pm on Shaw TV (channel 4).

This first show takes a creative approach to the future of Transportation and includes interviews with numerous people throughout the region and Salt Spring Island. Subsequent shows, to air in the next few weeks of November, will cover Food & Farming and Artists as Change Makers with more to come in the New Year. The Transportation show will air more than a dozen times this week at the following times:

Monday – 12:30 pm
Tuesday – 12 am, 9:30 pm
Wednesday – 4 pm
Thursday – 3:30 am, 3:30 pm
Friday – 5 am, 9 am
Saturday – 10 am, 5:30 pm, 11 pm
Sunday – 11:30 am, 11:30 pm

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I’m so excited to host and share with you this pilot episode of an upcoming six-episode series to air this fall on Shaw TV. This IS Leadership is a program dedicated to showcasing local leadership and changemakers in action!

Our first feature and guest is Tom Zaban, Vice President of Marketing for Reliable Controls, a company which specializes in the design and manufacture of Internet-connected building controls.

If you would like your own tour of Reliable Controls, one of the region’s leading green-tech employers, here’s your chance! Learn more about the Sunday, April 23rd, 1:30 – 3:30 pm tour of this LEED Platinum facility here.

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I’m delighted to support our community by producing the annual Creatively United for the Planet Earth Day Festival & Sustainability Showcase.

Did you know, that it’s been more than 100 years since electric vehicles were introduced to Victoria? On Earth Day, April 22nd, history will be made again with Vancouver Island’s largest Electric Vehicle Show and Sustainability Showcase to be held from 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday, April 22nd, both indoors and outside, at the Royal BC Museum 675 Belleville St.

In addition to free test rides and hands-on demonstrations, learn about innovative new technologies, see more than 34 displays, explore engaging topics and presentations by Order of Canada singer & storyteller Ann Mortifee; Emmy-nominated screenwriter & award-winning novelist Pauline Le Bel; one of Victoria’s leading high tech firms and green leaders, Tom Zaban of Reliable Controls; a panel of Net Zero Buildings, Saltspring creative up-cyclist Jaime Murdoch, and meet and write a letter with Franny and Rupert, who at age nine and 13 years are environmental rights advocates working with the Blue Dot movement.

Admission is free, with some ticketed talks and workshops. Check out www.creativelyunited.org to learn more.

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Thanks to CanvasPlus for doing such a fabulous job in printing the canvases I had on display at the 5th Annual Creatively United for the Planet Sustainability Showcase this past April at both Royal Bay Secondary and the Royal BC Museum.

Jan Dong was a total pro in how she hung the show and to be in the company of so many talented artists was a real highlight.

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Saturday, April 15th was full on with 30 presenters, more than 75 exhibitors, live music, art and more than 1000 people.

The Earth Week festivities continue at the Royal BC Museum, with an inspired evening of revolutionary art and film with Franke James and Sarah Robertson this Friday, April 22, from 7-10 pm (Earth Day) and continuing Sat., April 23 from 1-5 pm with live music, art, and two incredible workshops suitable for all ages. Learn more here!

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