All Environment articles

Xeriscapic landscaping uses plants that thrive in our natural environment. Here are seven tips for creating a low-maintenance yard.

The former homestead of the Fitzen family was acquired by the Nature Conservancy of Canada as a partial donation and partial land purchase.

Little Lunches Reusable Wraps keep food fresh and reduce plastic use in your lunchbox

The Province of BC has announced the new BeeBC Program

Owner of Grassroots Environmental Services in Golden, Scott Wilson can encounter anything while out protecting waterways … even wolves

Valley Zipline Adventures is a hot new tourist draw near Radium Hot Springs.

Valley Vitals owner Ashley Taylor has a passion to connect people back with their environment and their community through food.

Columbia Basin Trust supporting 12 climate action initiatives.

Twenty communities focus on mitigating wildfire with over $800,000 from Columbia Basin Trust

Columbia Basin Trust provides $295,000 toward facilities and programming

Columbia Basin Trust provides $3 million for 53 new recreation infrastructure projects

The government’s new Bill C-69 provides a new environmental assessment process and includes a new mechanism for protecting navigable waters.

Six years of work by VAST Resource has enabled CertainTeed Gypsum Canada to receive provincial approval for a new gypsum mine near Canal Flats

FortisBC’s Community Investment program has helped to fund a snowtube, a specialized piece of equipment used to collect core samples from snowpacks.

Kevin Hagel and Dana DiPonio of Nelson Naturals create natural toothpaste. But don’t expect to find any tacky, distasteful plastic tubes in their business.

Dave Madden of Madden Timber Construction Inc. is a local leader in his industry and a champion of regional prosperity.

The Raw House in Cranbrook, B.C., offers unique, healthy cold-pressed juices and nut mylks

Columbia Basin Trust approves $870,000 in Environment Grants

Based in Invermere, B.C., Forrest Campbell formed Freewheeling Energy

CertainTeed proposes a 135-hectare open-pit gypsum mine, located approximately 12 kilometres northeast of Canal Flats.

Columbia Basin Trust announces new five-year, $10-million program.

The Swag Hair Studio won a green award from the Kimberley and District Chamber of Commerce

A small aviation company is providing important support to the Kootenay region.

The vision and energy at Cranbrook City Hall is focused on local and outside sources of support for long-term, sustainable economic development.

Attend the Columbia Basin Trust event, SHIFT! Thriving in Change, from anywhere in the Basin

The Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy presented the Climate & Energy Action Awards. The City of Cranbrook received an Honourable Mention

Aaron Cosbey is a Rossland city councillor and an advisor on national and international boards for sustainable economic development.

Caleb Willems’s goal for his clients is “more garden, less gardening.”

Breakthrough technology from Advanced BioCarbon 3D of Rossland will create biodegradable, high performance, good-for-the-earth plastic.

The unprecedented wildfire season in B.C. will affect the forest industry

Watch wild animals during the solar eclipse on Monday, August 21 and become part of the citizen scientist project.

“Once you know what you’re going after, you can tie it to your financial plan, and then it’s like a road map.” —Kathy Moore, mayor of Rossland.

Golden, B.C., is distributing bear-resistant garbage bins to decrease bear destruction

It’s a great time to be a food citizen in Canada

Landscape your yard for beauty and for food with edimentals—edible, ornamental plants

This year’s theme for Earth Day—April 22nd—is EarthPlay

Accelerate Kootenay is a two-year $1.5-million project to install over 50 electric vehicle chargers along Highway 3

The actions outlined in the strategy will begin this spring, and will be funded in part by $750,000 over three to five years from Columbia Basin Trust.

Retired physician Faisal Jhandir is on a mission to save the planet with solar cooking

9dot Engineering Inc., based in Nelson, B.C., has talented innovators such as CEO Steven Thomson

Once focused on forestry, Slocan is now evolving into an eco-tourism hot spot.

New Trust report highlights status of water resources and future opportunities.

Road Watch BC is recruiting citizen scientists to gather data that will reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions

Columbia Basin Trust program helps strengthen environmental well-being.

Hall Printing in Trail, B.C., won the Go Green Award from the local chamber of commerce

Chris Nicholson is a highly qualified, tree-loving arborist who owns and operates Black Bear Tree Care in Fernie, B.C.

Communities reduce water use from 2 to 39 per cent.

Teck Trail Operations has completed construction on the Smelter Recycle Building, a $35-million investment that will reduce fugitive dust emissions by up to 25%

Soup du Jar in New Denver, B.C., is Kayte Rock’s pride and joy

A summary of the similarities and differences among all of the Kootenay chambers of commerce Business Excellence Awards