Consumable Earth – Kamloops

When: Sunday January 17, 2010 at at 2:00pm-4:00pm (meeting) 4:00pm-6:00pm (potluck) 
(Third Sunday of Month)
Where: 2853 Bowers Pl, Kamloops, BC (map)
Contact: Caroline Cooper at 250.374.4646

We will be hosting a Weston A. Price Foundation Potluck. Please bring one nourishing traditional dish to share with others. If you are unsure of what a nourishing traditional dish is, please read Dietary Guidelines and Dietary Dangers. Please bring a list of ingredients for the dish or a copy of the recipe. This is for those people with food allergies or sensitivities to even properly prepared nourishing traditional foods.

We will be discussing the formation of a herd share program for Kamloops. We will review Naomi Fournier’s lecture on January 9, 2010 for those families that could not attend. If you are interested in raw milk, please come to this meeting.

Hosted by Caroline Cooper leader of the Kamloops Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation for more information please visit her site at Eat Kamloops

Tria Donaldson, Canadian Youth Delegate to the Copenhagen Conference
will be making presentations at:
TRU in the Clock Tower Theatre
7 pm on Thursday January 14th.

The Environment and Sustainability Speaker Series will sponsor a Copenhagen Post Mortem, to look at what happened and where we go following the Copenhagen Climate meeting in December.

Critical Mass is a gathering of cyclists in support of cyclist equality in the urban center. We ride through the downtown core (beginning at Riverside Park) in a pack, taking up a lane to ourselves. Everyone is welcome on the ride, and we only go as fast as our slowest person, so don’t worry about being left behind! Our rides our designed to be fun and easy and usually don’t take more than 30 minutes, so don’t be put off thinking we’re riding up to Sahali.

Make a stand for alternative transportation. When cyclists are seen riding by themselves in the middle of winter they are thought of as “crazy persons” but when a large group ride together it makes people think.

Help us make the city think. Happy riding folks.

Sunday, January 31st at 2 p.m. at TRU Clock Tower Theatre there will be a public forum featuring talks by Professor Douw Steyn of UBC on “Air Quality in Kamloops” and Professor Penny Powers of TRU on “The Threat to Our Health”.

This public forum is just one response to the attempt to turn Kamloops into the pollution capital of BC from the Tournament Capital of Canada by allowing a toxic waste incinerator to operate in our city.

This public forum is co-sponsored by the TRUFA human rights committee, SaveKamloops and the TRU School of Nursing.

All are welcome.

For more information please contact Derek Cook, Chair of the TRUFA Human Rights Committee at 250 828 5244 .

UBC Faculty > D.Steyn http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/D.Steyn.html

For information please see the original post at savekamloops.ca

PRESS RELEASE from the City of Kamloops – Internet Helps Kamloops Commuters Go Green

Kamloops— Kamloops commuters now have an additional alternative to driving alone to work.
The City of Kamloops, in partnership with BC’s Commuter Connections, is providing a free ride
matching service to local area residents through their on-line ride matching program,
www.carpool.ca.

“Carpool.ca takes about two minutes to use”, says Anne Marie Thornton, Director of Commuter
Connections, a BC-based non-profit that is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
through the implementation and promotion of ridesharing. “Commuters enter in their own
information and instantly receive a match list of potential carpoolers. The site is free, easy to use,
and secure. In addition to ride matching services, the Carpool.ca website contains a variety of
information and resources including a cost calculator and carpool etiquette tips.”

Commuters simply visit the website www.carpool.ca., choose “Kamloops” from the list on the
“Find a Carpool” page and fill out an on-line form. After submitting their information, participants
instantly receive a list of potential carpool matches. All information is kept strictly confidential.
By providing commuters a fast and convenient way to find carpool matches, the City of Kamloops
hopes that the introduction of this travel demand management program will help to further reduce
vehicle emissions and alleviate increasing traffic congestion. The www.carpool.ca service is used
throughout Canada, with over 8,000 registrants and growing.
The total annual cost for the program is $7,000 of which $6,000 is sponsored by the BC Climate
Exchange, a program managed by the Fraser Basin Council, and the remaining $1,000 is
contributed from the City of Kamloops.

I happened across this the other day and my first thought was, ‘Hey what I cool idea I can do that.’ And then I thought about it a little more and then I read a few of the articles and comments that people were making about the idea and I thought, ‘yeah food is easy if you are homeless’. And then I thought about it a little more…. what if you aren’t homeless? What about the single mother who is struggling to make ends meet? I bet she would sure appreciate a few PB&J sandwiches for the kiddos. What about the senior who never eats anything that is all that good for her? I bet if you sat and hung around with her for a while munching on a sandwich you’d be the highlight of her week.

The point being. I love the idea. I love the simplicity of it. Our problems can really be that simple. We love to complicate things and say oh but what about this or that or when blah blah blah. Why can’t we just smile at each other a little more and start with that?

So what is a simple solution? How about socks? It’s getting cold out and I would hazard a guess that most people who live outside could use another pair of decent socks. I go into thrift stores all the time and I am going to start buying socks. Good ones, thick ones, wool ones and ones that have no holes in them. I am going to put two pairs of socks in my bag and when I see a man on the street who looks like he just might live not too far from there I am going to give him a pair of socks.

Another simple thing is that I donate all of my clothes to the women’s shelter. I have a clothing habit like most women. I purchase clothing from thrift stores on a regular basis and am constantly rotating my closet. Most of the clothes are perfect, relatively in style and will do a girl just fine, maybe even excite her to find, during a rough patch of her life.

Please feel free to share your simple ideas for giving back and helping to support your community.

May 2, 2009 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

Join the Council of Canadians, Citizens for a Just Peace and Kamloops District Labour Council for the 33rd Annual Walk for Peace, the Environment and Social Justice.

There will be music, speakers, activities for kids, sign painting and the walk starts at noon. Gather infront of Stuart Wood Elementary at 245 St Paul St at 10.30 am.

Contact Anita Strong for more information 250.377.0055