Kootenay Earth Day 2011 http://kootenayearthday.ca Get inspired. Make a difference. Share your story. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:44:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Feed the Butterflies http://kootenayearthday.ca/project_type/org/feed-the-butterflies/ http://kootenayearthday.ca/project_type/org/feed-the-butterflies/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:44:23 +0000 Robin Fitzgerald http://kootenayearthday.ca/?p=1028 Continue reading »]]> I have changed the world, the world of butterflies on Vancouver Island at the least. Now I want to share this experience as an inspiration for others. Today thousands of Silvery Blues live beside our Inland route where before I began the B. Enthusiasts Club I had seen just one of these in 10 years of looking. They are the most overlooked creatures on the planet, yet they are the easiest to fix of all our fauna. I have prepared an adventure book for young adults of all ages that not only demonstrates this, but offers answers on every page. It demonstrates how some species are down to fewer than 10 sighted in a season, after serious searches have been conducted. Yet, all we have to do is put a few plants in to save them, they will do the rest on their own.
Funding for those with fur or feathers is always first, then there is a list of bats frogs snakes and many more, all of which are so difficult to help really. We must begin to feed the butterflies or else we will lose something future generations will never experience.
Not a warning, a simple fact. I sold my house and traveled for 4 years to create this book, this tool for change, but now I don’t have the funds to publish. The photos are close-up, showing the desperate plea for some help. Our encroachment has taken these plants from them, it’s only right we feed the butterflies after such arrogance in their eyes.

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]]> http://kootenayearthday.ca/project_type/org/feed-the-butterflies/feed/ 0 Reclaiming textiles http://kootenayearthday.ca/locale/nelson/reclaiming-textiles/ http://kootenayearthday.ca/locale/nelson/reclaiming-textiles/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:38:08 +0000 Alison http://kootenayearthday.ca/?p=760 Continue reading »]]> I plan to not buy any new clothing (excluding undies and shoes) for the next 6 months. My purchasing of textiles will be as such:
– shop local thrift stores and consignment racks
- repurpose existing clothing
- participate in clothing swaps

My pledge is to reduce my consumption, particularly of textiles, and hopefully engage my creative brain and make perfectly good clothes work for me again. Hopefully, after 6 months, I will be changed forever and continue this pledge for years to come!

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