Wake up Call: California Drought & BC’s Food Security predicts produce prices in B.C. will rise up to 34 per cent this year due to the California drought, which is in its third year. The report, released by Vancity October 10,…
In OMF we define creation care as “the responsible stewardship by humankind of the earth and its life forms, for the Lord’s sake.” We believe that “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it” (Psalm 24:1); that we are…
People of all ages and backgrounds continue to get arrested while protesting the work on the Kinder Morgan pipeline on Burnaby Mountain. The whole event raises serious questions for Christians. The protestors are clearly operating out of deep conviction, but…
Margaret Atwood will be the star attraction at A Rocha’s Green Gala this Thursday (May 22) at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel. The story of how the acclaimed author got hooked up with the Christian environmental stewardship group is a good…
Paul Kariya’s devotion to the environment developed naturally, growing up as the son of a salmon fisherman on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Now executive director of Clean Energy BC, he has also served as executive director of the…
It sounds like a bad joke: what do you get when a Buddhist, a Christian and a Wiccan sit down for a meal together? Actually, it was one Buddhist, three Christians, one Wiccan and three agnostics and what you got was some…
I met Markku and Leah Kostamo of A Rocha, an international Christian environmental organization, on the set of a television show in Toronto. The show was Context, hosted by the welcoming Lorna Dueck. This show explores the stories behind the news…
Originally I’d intended to devote a couple of short articles to locally-written books, in the hopes that a few of those books would find their way under Vancouver Christmas trees (here are parts one and two). But as I started…