“Some things grow a lot better up here than other things,” said Our Place kitchen manager Brian Cox. “I’m just very excited about it. We’ve talked about it for years and it never happened.” Combined with food grown at its New Roads centre in View Royal and fruits and vegetables from donors, Our Place has enough in its gardens to reduce its produce budget by a third, Cox said. New Roads gives people a chance to improve their lives through gardening and other activities, said Grant McKenzie, Our Place director of communications. New Roads resident Lee Morton, who has been there about four months, said gardening and learning about plants as well as looking after chickens has been therapeutic for him. “It’s my recovery,” he said. “When I’m out there gardening, it’s hugely meditative for me.”
Meaghan McDonald, founder of Salt Legacy, an eco-friendly business that takes old sails from sailboats and turns them into new products, at her sailboat the Spyhop at Fishermans Wharf. ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST Becoming a One Planet region is a mammoth challenge, but one we have to meet unless we prefer to leave it to Mother Nature to do it for us (and to us). But that is not going to be pretty! The key to becoming a One Planet Region is in principle very simple; use and consume a lot less stuff and energy especially fossil fuels and produce much less waste. Here in Victoria the Synergy Foundation’s Project Zero, which was featured in our March Conversation for a One Planet Region, puts it this way: “Our residents will own less, but live more fulfilling lives. Material goods will be shared, not stored. Our waste will be our greatest resource.”
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VartaLeap aims to co-create a context for youth-centric development and contribute to nation-building and global solidarities for a peaceful and sustainable society.
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patriarchy often restrict the youth from becoming stakeholders in their development or to be leaders for social change. As a result, the high potential of this demographic to empower society is often lost.
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100 youth-focused organisations. They have three core strategies: aggregating, accelerating, and amplifying youth spaces.
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