Water

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean


In her enthralling book, Susan Casey goes to the places where the ocean rears up like an enormous bucking stallion, and talks to the people who then study and/or ride it. What she finds is a tribe of people who flock to the ocean as the Coast Guard shoos people from it.
In a globetrotting, effortlessly readable narrative, Casey introduces us to the scientists seeking to understand why the world’s oceans are getting progressively angrier, and the surfers who regularly cheat death by riding waves taller than most apartment buildings.
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Events, Nature and Wildlife Conservation

Salmon Art Charity Auction: “The Stamp Collection”

Pacific Salmon Foundation and Sandbar Restaurant present “The Stamp Collection,” featuring full-sized signed lithographs of salmon paintings from artists Curtis Atwater, Mark Hobson and Bill Munsie. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 2 at Sandbar Seafood Restaurant from 5:30 to 8:30pm, and proceeds will support grants for volunteer-run salmon conservation projects in British Columbia. Continue reading Salmon Art Charity Auction: “The Stamp Collection”

Career Opportunities, Energy

Climate Change & Renewable Energy Coordinator – Falls Brook Centre

The Climate Change & Renewable Energy Coordinator will be responsible for a range of Climate Change and Renewable Energy activities at Falls Brook Centre and will coordinate FBC’s Appropriate Technology Department Programming:

• Explore opportunities for future Appropriate Technology (Climate Change and Renewable Energy) initiatives and projects.
• Coordinate volunteers and interns working on Appropriate Technology activities.
• Link Appropriate Technology programming to FBC’s local and international climate change and renewable energy work. Continue reading Climate Change & Renewable Energy Coordinator – Falls Brook Centre

Water

Deepwater Vee


“This boat grafts you to water’s big-winged glide,” observes Melanie Siebert in Deepwater Vee, her beautifully original debut poetry collection. Shortlisted for the 2010 Governor General’s Award, Deepwater Vee is itself a boat, sailing on Siebert’s 10 years as a professional guide on rivers from Alaska to Baffin Island, including the desecrated North Saskatchewan and Athabasca. Her words carry us to the heart of wilderness landscapes and reveal startling new ways of understanding them. The poems in this collection evoke Siebert’s journeys with a surge of language that runs at times with a deep, measured fluidity, then dives into sudden chutes of unexpected metaphors or dark realities.
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