Media Coverage 2011 - 2019 Media Citations (by date)

Cierra and Hannah, Rangers, Lougheed Area, Think Global and Act Local, Pipeline British Columbia,Winter/Spring 2019, p. 23 Groeneveld, B. (2019, May 3) Me To We Works With Green Team, Langley Advance Times, p.A6 Strandberg, D. (2019, April 25) Help Green team Sat at Rocky Point, Tri-City News, p. A27 Holmes, T. (2018, Oct 24) 700 plants added to White Rock park, Peace Arch News, p. A14 Strandberg, D. (2018, Oct 24) Green Team Looking for Weed Pullers, Tri-City News, p. A11 Hinks, A. (2018, June 22) Feeling Green, Peace Arch News, p. A15 Kennedy, G. (2018, April 26) Volunteers wanted to clean up Delta Trails, Surrey Now Leader Ferguson, D. (2018, April 25) Turning Disaster into Triumph, Langley Times, Front page and A5 (2017, Oct 26). Volunteers needed to rid park of invasive weeds, Langley Advance, p. A16 Ferguson, D. (2017, Oct 12). Blackberry wars: fighting an invasive species in Langley, Aldergrove Star, p. A9 Kurokawa, B (2017, March 24). Green Team gets to Work. Peach Arch News, p. 15. Wakefield, M. (2017, January 17).Ivy Pull. North Shore News. http://www.nsnews.com/community/ivy-pull-1.7657796. (2016, November 25) Bad Plants Rooted Out of PM Park. Tri-City News, p. A29. (2016, October 28). Team Effort. Peace Arch News, p.17. (2016, October 21). The Green Team. Burnaby Now, p.3. (2016, October 7). Green Team Busts Weeds on PM Trail. Tri-City News, p. A21. (2016, September 23). Pulling Weeds, Planting Shrubs & Trees. Tri-City News, p.A25. Brown, A. (2016, July 8). Fast Funds for Green Team. Peace Arch News, p. 5. Greenizan, N. (2016, June 3). Shear Teamwork. Peace Arch News, p 14. (2015, November 20). Weed Pull at Coq. River Park, p. A20. Goble, G. (2015, June 26). Green Team to the Rescue! The Delta Optimist, p.A14. Smalley, M. (2015, April 22). Group Weeds out Invasive Plants. Peace Arch News, p. 10. (2014, October 7). Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows Times, p. A9. (2014, September 26). Richmond Review. P. 35. (2014, June 19). Green Team Gives Native Species Room to Grow. http://metrovancouvervideos.org/2014/06/19/lower-mainland-green-team-mvcu-ep-4-2014/ Boaz, J. (2014, June 10). Going Solo for the Green Team. Surrey/North Delta Leader, p. 21. Lang, J. (2014, March 14). Greening up the City. The Record, p. A03. (2014, Jan 4). CBC Radio Early Edition. Krop, J. (2013, July 31) Global News. Stoymenoff, A. (2013).Park Wranglers. Alternatives Journal, pp. 28-29. (2013, October 24). Planting for Future at Aldergrove Park. Aldergrove Star, p. 8. (2013, June 13). A Team That’s Green and ‘Heroic’. Surrey/North Delta Leader, p. 36. Ferguson, D. (2013, March 14). Coming Together for Blackie Spit Cleanup. Peace Arch News, p. A22. (2013, July 30). Green Team Takes on Duprez Raving. Peace Arch News, p. 15. (2013, March 27). Iona Beach Cleanup. Richmond News, p. A19. Lyon, C. (2012, October 12). At-Risk Teens Go Green. Richmond Review, p. 27. (2012, September 25). Native Species Planted in Kanaka. Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times, p. A5. Shore, R. (2012, June 15). Green Team Grows into Small Army. Vancouver Sun, p. A11. Boaz, J. (2012, June 14). A Green Team Milestone. Surrey/North Delta Leader. p. 42. Landerville, T. (2012, May 8). Helping Hands Beautify Local Parks. Langley Advance, p. A22. Winham. N. (2012, March). Social Networking - Harnessing the Internet for Community Conservation. BC Hydro Conservation Magazine. Boaz, J. (2012, March 15). Beach Cleanup. Peace Arch News, p. A20. (2011, December 16). Help Remove Ivy at Minnekhada. Coquitlam Now. Wakefield, M. (2011, November 30).Capilano Cleanup. North Shore News, p.A21. Massah, M. (2011, November 1). Park Volunteers Get Back to their Roots. Peace Arch News, p. 17. Salatian, L. (2011, April 15). Canadians Need to Connect with Nature to Care for It. Vancouver Sun. Boaz, J. (2011, April 22). Going Green as a Team. Peace Arch News, p. 11. Landerville, T. (2011, March 8). Take That, You Green Invaders. Langley Advance. Melnychuk. P. (2011, March 2). Working in Dirt, Helping Earth Is Fun. Maple Ridge News, p. 14. A6 Friday, May 3, 2019 Langley Advance Times www.langleyadvancetimes.com Me To We works with green team Lauren Denny and Miah Arch-Perez the Stafford group with the help of the kids, and they can use the expe- attacked stubborn Invaders replaced fellow teachers Melissa Hayne and rience to get required community blackberry roots Mundeep Bhamra. service credit at school. with pruners and with native plants “We can’t do everything, but if “It also gets them off their phones a shovel after a we can do a little, it helps,” he said, and computers,” she smiled. Bob Groeneveld adding, “We’re just trying to make “For some of them, it’s the first lengthy battle [email protected] with the invader. people’s lives better.” time they’ve held a shovel,” added “We’ve been at it Me To We students from H.D. The students walked to Brydon Lyda Salatian, the green team’s ex- for a while,” said Stafford Middle School joined the Park from their school at the behest ecutive director. Lauren, to which Lower Mainland Green Team in of the green team, to help remove She said the project was a partner- Miah added, “It removing invasive species from Himalayan blackberries and En- ship with Langley City and Langley doesn’t want to around Brydon Lagoon, and moved glish ivy that have been invading the Environmental Partners Society come out!” But in some native plants in their stead. area. They replanted the banks with (LEPS). they persisted... Me To We is a world-wide pro- native wild roses and sword ferns. Salatian and Kerr agreed that it and succeeded. gram for students who want to Green team director Ashton Kerr gave the students a better under- “help others within school, com- said the Brydon project achieved standing of how climate changes munity, and globally,” explained several goals. The environmental impact on the environment, and Bob Groeneveld teacher Mike Ostafiew, who leads work was an Earth Day project for how that impacts on them directly. Langley Advance Times

www.tol.ca Page TowFor the week ofnshiApril 29, 2019 p 20338 - 65 Avenue, Langley V2Y 3J1 | 604.534.3211 Dates to Note Langley Events Centre Road Closure

Monday, May 13 | 7:00pm Your centre for Temporary Partial Road Closure: Regular Evening Council Meeting sports, recreation, 64 Avenue, East of 232 Street and Public Hearing Meeting and entertainment 64 Avenue, east of 232 Street, will temporarily close to traffic Fraser River Presentation Theatre beginning Monday, May 6 through Friday, May 10. Wednesday, May 15 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm VANCOUVER GIANTS WHL PLAYOFF HOCKEY A detour route will be in effect and indicated by signage. Seniors Advisory Committee Rogers WHL Championship Best-of-Seven Series For the latest traffic impact updates, visit www.tol.ca/roads. Salmon River Committee Room vs. Prince Albert Raiders Game 3: Tuesday, May 7 at 7:00pm We appreciate your patience. Offices at the Township of Langley Game 4: Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00pm Engineering Division Civic Facility and Operations Centre Game 5: (if necessary) Friday, May 10 at 7:30pm 604.533.6006 [email protected] will be closed for Victoria Day U14 JUNIOR NBA WORLD QUALIFIER on Monday, May 20 Hosted by Basketball BC Regular afternoon and evening Council meetings are Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5 live streamed and can be watched online at LOWER MAINLAND HOOPFEST Public Programs and Events www.tol.ca/councilagendas. Hosted by 3D Basketball Academy Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5 Township of Langley Civic Facility Heritage Building Incentive Program 20338 - 65 Avenue, Langley V2Y 3J1 LANGLEY JUNIOR A THUNDER LACROSSE Thursday, May 9 at 7:30pm vs. Port Coquitlam Saints 604.534.3211 | www.tol.ca The Heritage Building Incentive Thursday, May 16 at 7:30pm vs. Burnaby Lakers Program is designed to assist with LANGLEY JUNIOR B THUNDER LACROSSE the costs of restoring, repairing, Tuesday, May 14 at 7:30pm vs. Richmond Roadrunners and maintaining eligible heritage buildings within the Township Public Programs and Events Langley Events Centre is located at 7888 - 200 Street of Langley. Grants are available For ticket information, contact: to property owners of heritage 604.882.8800 • www.LangleyEventsCentre.com buildings included in the Township of Langley’s Inventory of Heritage Resources. The next deadline for 57th Annual Langley Walk the grant program is Friday, May 17 at 4:30pm. For an application form, visit www.tol.ca/hbip. The tradition continues as the public is invited Public Notice to walk, run, bike, or push a stroller in a Elaine Horricks 5- or 10-kilometre route. The Langley Walk Heritage Planner is presented each year by the Township of 604.533.6176 Langley and the City of Langley, and this year One of These Things Doesn't Belong the free, family event will be held: One of the types of items pictured below doesn’t belong in your municipal recycling. Do you know which one? Date: Sunday, May 5 Public Notice Time: 12:00pm - Registration and entertainment begins It’s the Styrofoam packaging! 1:15pm -10 km walk begins Foam packaging, such as 1:30pm - 5 km walk begins Styrofoam meat trays, packing Place: Aldergrove Athletic Park materials, and take-out boxes, Cart Placement Guidelines Address: 26770 - 29 Avenue are not accepted in the municipal Garbage carts, Green Carts, and recycling program. However, the recycling bins and bags must be Participants can enjoy activities and entertainment and will receive good news is you can bring them placed curbside for pickup by a free snack after the walk. Everyone who finishes will receive a to a local depot for recycling. 7:30am. Carts should be placed commemorative crest. Awards will be presented to the oldest walker within one metre of the road, but and the school, organization, and family with the most walkers. As Use the What Goes Where? tool to find depot locations for foam not on the sidewalk where they well, all participants are eligible to win draw prizes. Walkers are packaging and other items. could impede pedestrian, vehicle, or bicycle traffic. encouraged to bring their own refillable water bottles. Find the tool at: www.tol.ca/recyclingresources. Visit www.tol.ca/carts. Parks and Recreation Division Engineering Division Engineering Division 604.533.6068 604.532.7300 604.532.7300 tol.ca/events [email protected] [email protected]

After-Hours Emergency Contact 604.543.6700 Cierra and Hannah, Rangers, Lougheed Area Think Global and Act Local! 1st Pitt Meadows Rangers Help Clean Up Katzie Slough

Nikole uses her body to measure the distance between plants going into the ground. Photo: Janet Haworth-Lee

Physics lesson: the higher you jump, the deeper the shovel goes into the ground! Photo: Lower Mainland Green Team

irl Guides love to contribute to our and a ton of fun with this activity! We communities! We strive to better our recommend activities run by the Lower world and to help the environment. Mainland Green Team to any unit looking G Our amazing unit did just that on a to make a constructive environmental gorgeous, sunny October day. We put contribution to their community. on our boots and gloves and got to work The project was also a great way to help helping the Lower Mainland Green Team fight global warming in our community. to remove an invasive species, the rapidly Hannah and Nikole loosen the roots before By replacing the invasive plants at the planting. Photo: Janet Haworth-Lee growing Himalayan Blackberry bush. In slough with a native species, the area total, we helped save 21 cubic metres of Katzie Slough, a floodplain watershed in can properly thrive and create a balanced Pitt Meadows, from the invasive species! ecosystem. The trees planted near the In its place, we planted native shrubs slough will offer shade to the waters and trees. that the salmon travel in, allowing the salmon to thrive in an area where they The Lower Mainland Green Team’s have been impacted by the attacks of mission is “to organize and run hands- invasive species as well as by rising water on activities educating volunteers about temperatures due to global warming. local parks and ecosystems, local food production and environmental To learn more about the Green Teams conservation.” It runs multiple activities to and their work, or to register as a help impact our environment in the best volunteer, visit the Green Teams Canada ways possible. By helping out the team, website at www.greenteamscanada.ca Hannah and Hannah plant the first of 30 plants the Ranger unit had a great experience and follow the links to the next meetups. in the Rangers’ pod. Photo: Janet Haworth-Lee

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Going solo for the Green Team

Lower Mainland Green Team founder spreads the word on regional expansion with an epic trek

by Boaz Joseph

yda Salatian, never having camped alone, and never having biked extremely long distances, has been told by friends that her upcoming trek is a crazy thing to do. LBut three years ago, some of the same people said that launching the Lower Mainland Green Team (LMGT) was also a zany idea. It was ambitious, to be sure – week aft er week, coordi- nating volunteers to go into parks and remove invasive fl ora, plant native greenery and trees, and pick up litter. What would they get in return? Fresh air, the pleasure of doing good, and perhaps home-baked cookies. On the fi rst day in the spring of 2011, when Salatian expected two or three volunteers, 25 showed up. Now there are 1,895 on the LMGT email list, with 200-300 regulars to rely on. She’s got other impressive numbers, too: “We’ve removed 68,000 pounds (about seven elephants’ worth) and 850 square metres (around 4,000 bathtubs) of inva- sive plants,” says Salatian. “We’ve planted 6,500 native plants and trees and removed 3,700 pounds of litter.” Th e new “crazy” idea is two-fold. First is the pilot launch of the Greater Victoria Green Team on Aug. 1, which aims to follow BOAZ JOSEPH / THE LEADER the LMGT model in the Capital Lyda Salatian, the founder of the Lower Mainland Green Team, is organizing a similar Region. group for Victoria, and is biking and hiking this summer to spread the word. Planning has been in the works for some time, including the 2013 founding of a non-profi t charity called Green Teams She’s blogged about her fi rst experiments with a heavily loaded bike, a of Canada (GTOC) to oversee the new group, as well Marmot hydration pack, changing a tire, pitching a tent, and keeping balance as the original LMGT. when going downhill. (Funding for the Green Teams “(I) learned very quickly that staking the tent down in of Canada is provided by Pacifi c windy weather before taking a photo is a good idea,” she Parklands Foundation, Th e Schein said. Foundation, Newman’s Own, Th e “The beauty of it Th e ride will be about 1,200 kilometres, depending on Gosling Foundation, Th e Sitka Foundation and others.) is that since I’ll be which route she takes. Th e second and more physically demanding plan began Salatian is fully aware that once she gets to Hope, no mat- Saturday (June 7), when Salatian set out on a two- to three- riding my bike for ter which way she goes, it’ll be “two days of hell. It will be week solo bike ride from Victoria to Calgary to spread the very, very challenging. Brutal.” word about the Green Teams of Canada. seven hours a day, Th e ride will include highway sections with no shoulders, Aft er she returns home (by car), she plans to hike 15 I can probably eat narrow tunnels, gravel fl ung by speeding trucks, and always peaks in B.C. in August, aiming for 300 kilometres on foot. one more steep hill to climb. “I’ve got this anything-is-possible attitude,” says the South anything I want.” Salatian will carry most of her food, including packets of Surrey woman and executive director of the GTOC. just-add-water camping meals. Originally, the plan was to bike across Canada, but real- Lyda Salatian But she’s prepared to splurge on whatever suits her fancy ism set in – she needs time to coordinate the launch of the along the way. Green Team in Victoria, and to hire a full-time coordinator “Th e beauty of it is that since I’ll be riding my bike for for it. seven hours a day, I can probably eat anything I want.” Th e appeal of hiking B.C.’s mountains, a passion for Salatian, also lured her away from the cross-Canada ride. Salatian’s blog is located at http://lydasrideandhike.wordpress.com. For more Salatian has sought the advice of fi ve other Canadians she found online information, visit http://www.greenteamscanada.ca or email lyda@greenteam- who had taken their own long-distance bicycle treks for charity. scanada.ca [email protected]

SECTION CO-ORDINATOR: BOAZ JOSEPH (PHONE 604-575-2744) CBC radio interview about the Lower Mainland Green Team set to a youtube of the volunteers in action EARTH DAY CANADA AWARDS ALEXIS S TOYMENOFF online than anyone else on the planet, with because she wanted to get involved in The Lower Mainland Green Team an average of 45 hours every month. Aware an environmental cause, and in just a is currently partnered with the Pacific that people spend a considerable portion of few months she has learned much about Parklands Foundation, an independent their time online on social networking sites, invasive plants, native plants and the group that is funded by Metro Vancouver Salatian decided to start a group on the natural ecosystems of the Lower Mainland. Parks. But Salatian plans to register the website Meetup.com when she first began Other volunteers agree that gaining new group as an independent charitable non- reaching out for volunteers. knowledge is one of the greatest perks of profit sometime in the next year, with hopes “What I did through Meetup.com was I being a Green Team member. of one day creating new Green Teams in tapped into the age group from about 12 Salatian has managed to raise enough other regions across Canada. to 45. This group has been missing from funds to temporarily make the Green “If people were this hungry for this kind that world of actually going out and doing Team her full-time gig, which has allowed of experience, why wouldn’t they be just as something,” she says. “The volunteers come her to focus more e ort on developing hungry for it in Ontario or Victoria, or other out for various reasons, one of them being programs to connect with youth at Metro places in Canada?” she asks. “I think this to meet people. They’re outside, they’re Vancouver schools, especially those in has the potential to really take o .” doing something physical, and they’re alternative programs. “I feel that something It all stems from a desire to stop people having fun.” has been missing from the classroom – it’s from sitting around just talking about all the At every event, Salatian takes photos of experiential learning,” she explains. things they want to do for the environment, each volunteer to share online and thanks Collaborating with local high schools, she says. “I actually wanted to do all the participants by name. “Volunteers she arranges weekday activities that something. And I felt like other people felt love seeing pictures of themselves doing allow teachers to pull students out of their the same way.” work, and they love to see before and after comfort zone and engage in meaningful Now, thanks to the Lower Mainland shots. I put the photos up so they actually outdoor activities such as planting trees and Green Team, the Vancouver region’s see what they have done,” she says. “I think removing invasive plants. In some cases, parks are much healthier and more than it makes a di erence.” the students are encouraged to lead the 1,600 like-minded people have found a She’s right. Green Team volunteers feel stewardship events themselves. surprisingly gratifying way to give back. incredibly rewarded to see the progress Salatian emphasizes the profound they’ve made. It’s an immediate, visual impact that youth activities have had on her, Alexis Stoymenoff is a Vancouver-based armation that they’ve done something citing feedback from high school teachers journalist and communications coordinator. positive for their community. who claim the experience helped them Get involved via meetup.com/The-Lower-

TIAN “I just love the work we do,” says get through to some of their “toughest” Mainland-Green-Team. ALA volunteer Sophia Dhason. “It’s my way of students. Because of this response, the A S Is there an organization changing your

YD giving back to the community and leaving $10,000 winnings from the Earth Day L Rohan Bhan (left) and Joshua Domino remove English ivy from Sendall Gardens in Langley, BC. this place slightly better o for the next Canada Group Hometown Hero Award will community for the better? Nominate them generation.” primarily go towards expanding the Green for Earth Day Canada’s Hometown Heroes Group award at earthday.ca/hometown. Dhason joined the Green Team Team’s youth activities.

Tom Rand from page 25 A\J Your previous book, Kick the Fossil Fuel I think anybody who’s read the Park Wranglers Habit, was about what we could be doing International Energy Agency’s reports or The Lower Mainland Green Team shares its secrets to super-powered volunteer engagement. with our money if we developed investments the Pentagon reports on climate change as using a tool such as government-backed a national security issue, all these people T’S 10 A.M. on a rainy Saturday “The whole three hours it was pouring huge. So they’re seeing what can happen bonds. What is Waking the Frog about? Is it know what’s up. And so why aren’t we morning in North Vancouver and Lyda rain and these people were just muddy from when a group of like-minded people get part two? saying anything? Why aren’t we having an adult conversation about climate change? Salatian stands in a circle of soggy top to bottom, but they loved every minute together and do something.” TR Kick is an optimistic expression of the I We need to ask those questions, look at volunteers in the parking lot at Capilano River of it,” says Salatian. Many of the participants The majority of their work involves possible. Waking the Frog is an articulation ourselves hard in the mirror and wake the Regional Park. She’s holding a camera, an had no previous experience with invasive invasive plant removal, but the Green of our inaction. So it’s a much more fuck up. essential tool at any of the weekly volunteer plants. For some, it was their first time Team – which now boasts more than 1,600 pessimistic book – there are not pretty events she runs, which she points at each visiting the park. volunteers who have collaborated on more pictures in this one. It’s a much more Daryn Caister interviewed Tom Rand. Watch attendee as they introduce themselves. When they began, the forest floor was than 100 stewardship events – has done serious book. building, say, a high-voltage direct-current A\J’s full-length video interview with Rand The other tools are on the sidelines, completely covered in sprawling English ivy, everything from planting native trees and We need to ask some very hard line up to Hudson Bay to open it for wind – about practical sustainability, Canadian ready for action: shovels, rakes, loppers and a fast-spreading invasive species that climbs picking up garbage to helping out at urban questions about who we are, what kinds development, for example. The abundance a pile of work gloves. The volunteers are up trees and smothers native plants. Three farms. No matter what the task, they’re of political and economic systems we’ve clean tech and apocalyptic language – at of wind power that gets developed in there with the Lower Mainland Green Team, hours later, the volunteers had removed a always getting their hands dirty. built and what are the responsibilities of alternativesjournal.ca/396. Hudson Bay could beat coal hands down, a group Salatian founded in 2011 to mobilize five-foot-tall pile of ivy, leaving tree trunks “The common theme is it’s all hands-on,” our business community. There are dicult but it needs a way to get to market. So Learn more about Rand’s work, writing and community members to improve the quality clean and revealing mossy rock faces that says Salatian. “Nobody’s sitting inside, we’re answers to those questions, I think because the developers would pay to put that of local park and natural ecosystems. had been hidden for years beneath the always doing something. I wanted people to they are not positive answers. We’re frozen, ideas at tomrand.net and greenbonds.ca. power down that high-voltage line and the This time they’re helping remove invasive intrusive vines. feel empowered.” we’re locked for lots of reasons. But I think ECW Press will release Waking the Frog in payments they make for that line would pay ivy plants from a small section of Capilano “If I was getting one or two people She created the Lower Mainland Green in asking those questions we gain an April 2014. ecwpress.com/frog the bond holders like you. River Regional Park, and two employees coming out to an event, we would have an Team as a way to get people away from understanding of why we’re paralyzed. Why Check out Earth Day Canada’s past are present to help direct the team. Salatian impact, for sure,” Salatian explains. “But it their computers and into nature. According can’t the CEOs of our biggest companies A\J So it’s like a government-backed loan. Outstanding Commitment to the expected only a handful of volunteers would be a small impact. Instead they’re to 2012 statistics compiled by comScore talk about climate change in public? Environment award winners at but, despite the rainy weather, 27 people seeing themselves come out in groups of (a US-based leader in producing web TR It’s a government-backed loan at Why can’t our fossil fuel sector publically earthday.ca/pub/oc.php. showed up – two of them on their bicycles. 20 to 40 people at a time, and the impact is analytics), Canadians spend more time its core. acknowledge climate change?

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The Richmond News March 27. 2013 A19

TheWe’vePulsegot our finger on it IONA BEACH CLEANUP

PHOTOS SUBMITTED The Lower Mainland Green Team, 22 volunteers in total, descended PHOTOS SUBMITTED on Iona Beach Regional Park acouple of weeks ago to remove the invasive Eric Lee, (left to right) AlexChau, Annabel Leung and Scotch Broom. With no known natural predators, the plant continues to Jerry Leung use team work to dig deep and pull out the Scotch Broom that spreads across Iona Beach Regional spread outcompeting native plants and trees. With the guidance of Metro Simone Artaud Vancouver parks, the crewarrived armed with weed wrenches and loppers, Park. and removedabout 10 cubic metres of Scotch Broom.

PHOTOS SUBMITTED Mattea Costa removes bits of the invasive plant at Iona Beach Regional Park.

PHOTOS Beforecleanup (above) and after (below) SUBMITTED

Andrea PHOTOS SUBMITTED Evans MetroVancouver Parks staff Joe Soluri demonstrated how and Laura to properlyremove the Scotch Broom from Iona Beach Regional Janssen Park. (yellow) attempt to remove a Send your pictures to [email protected] with ThePulse in the large pile subject line.For morephoto galleries, visit www.richmond-news.com. of Scotch Broom.

Kwantlen’s Habitat for Humanity fundraiser

Devon Richards and KPU Builds team PHOTOSBY MATT LAW member Noelia Kostur take a KPU Builds team members Dave Koyanagi (left) and Cadillac for aspin PHOTOSBY MATT LAW AndrewCode prepare to test drive anew Cadillac from Kwantlen University’s KPU Builds student-run team partnered Dueck GM, all in an efforttoraise funds for Habitat for with Dueck GM to raise moneyfor their upcoming Habitat for Humanity. Scan page Humanity trip to Fiji in May. Forevery free test drive,Dueck GM for full story donated $25. About 106 people participated and over $2,500 was raised. To read the full story, visit http://bit.ly/14abYeu.

Canadians need to connect with nature to care for it

Opinion

By Lyda Salatian, Special to The Sun April 15, 2011

Earth Day is on April 22nd every year and inspires awareness and appreciation for the environment. Some communities celebrate Earth Week and others celebrate for an entire month.

On Feb 7, 2011 the Lower Mainland Green Team was formed to create at least one “Earth Day” each month, often more, year round to address a number of issues facing our local parks such as: invasive plants displacing local flora, litter, reduced native species, reduced habitat for wildlife and reduction in park visits.

Canadians are unlikely to take action to conserve and protect the environment if they do not spend time in nature and connect with it.

According to Ipsos Reid, a survey based research company, two-thirds of British Columbians (66%) say protecting the environmental should be given priority over economic growth. Ipsos Reid also conducted a poll on behalf of the Nature Conservancy of Canada and found nine in ten Canadians say that when connected to nature they feel happier.

Based on these two findings you would assume that British Columbians are a) very active in protecting the environment and b) spending a great deal of time outdoors. However, this is not the case, Vital Signs Canada (2010), an annual checkup by community foundations across Canada, states “while the public clearly believes that individual citizens can make a difference in local environmental quality, most are not currently mobilized and acting on this responsibility.”

Canadians are also spending less time than ever in parks. Canada’s national parks had about 13 million visitors in 2006-2007 a drop from a decade earlier when there were 16.3 million visitors. Ipsos-Reid (2010) answers the question about what Canadians might be doing instead of being outside in nature. Canadian web surfers are online 18.1 hours a week compared to the 16.9 hours they spend watching television. Based on this, there does not appear to be much time left over for much else.

What are other barriers stopping citizens from taking more environmental action? Vital Signs Canada (2010) says some of the barriers include: too costly/expensive for changes, lack of public transit options, lack of information/don’t know what to do, lack of leadership from local leaders.

The Lower Mainland Green Team is knocking down those barriers by: making action cheap ($5 a year to help run the group and only the cost of getting to/from the park), making car pooling available, providing information of what to do, providing the opportunity for hands-on environmental action and being a community leader.

The question is, while the team has gained great momentum and looks promising, 232 members in two and a half months from 17 communities in the Lower Mainland, and good turn out at it’s first 4 events, will it translate to long term success? Will people jump on the opportunity to take care of their parks and nature regularly? Given the tools to enable action, it looks promising.

Visit http://www.meetup.com/the-lower-mainland-green-team to become part of the team that makes earth day a regular activity!

Lyda Salatian is with the Lower Mainland Green Team.

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Social networking used to get people working outside Going green as a team Boaz Joseph Black Press ou’re a machine,” Lyda Salatian tells a newcomer, a volunteer hard at work pulling ivy branches on a trail‘Y at Campbell Valley Regional Park. The volunteer is one of more than 20 that will break a sweat on a cool Sunday morning, a good 10-minute walk from the parking lot. Among them are teenagers, seniors, even families with small children. Equipped with gloves and shears provided by Metro Vancouver Regional Parks workers, and powered by homemade muffins and granola bars, the volunteers will spend the next three hours removing the invasive ivy plants from the nutrient-starved trees. One woman from White Rock says she’s helping out because she’s a regular visitor to Boaz Joseph photos the park. Lyda Salatian (left, and below) joins Lower Mainland Green Team volunteers in an ivy pull at Campbell Valley Regional Park. Another says she brought her kids to teach them that it can be fun to volunteer It’s called the Lower Mainland Green of Green Drinks in Vancouver, where people “Every single event and activity I have outdoors. Team. gathered to chat about environmental issues. planned is in partnership with a non-profit, It’s this sense of community that’s in the Salatian has got big ideas, and already has (Green Drinks now has dozens of chapters a charity or city. I could not do anything mind of Salatian, bringing together like- 11 events organized into September – the across the country, even wwithout their co-operation minded people who feel the need to help ivy pull was just the first event. one in the Northwest Green Team projects: aand active participation. the environment, but may not know where “I’m surprised somebody else hasn’t done Territories.) TThey provide the tools, to start. this,” says the South Surrey woman, who, The Lower Mainland • Pulling invasive plants that tthe input and direction Until now. just three weeks after its inception, had Green Team, Salatian are overtaking native flora; aabout what they need 97 people join the Green explains, was simply the • Planting of native plants/ ddone – and refreshments.” Team on its www.meetup. next step. trees; She adds that the com website. “It’s not just talking, but • Restoring areas along a ssuccess of a group like the (Just weeks later, planting doing something.” stream, river, marsh or shore- Green Team – its magic and restoration events She believes that obstacles line; – is dependent on the have already taken place for people who have an • Beach/river/lake clean-up; pparticipants. in Maple Ridge, Blackie environmental spirit is • Harvesting organic fruits/ “Any success this Spit Park and Tynehead that they lack information vegetables; ggroup garners will be on Regional Park.) about what to do, lack • Trail building/maintenance; aaccount of every single Salatian, a self-described leadership and don’t see and pperson who attends uber-organizer who hasn’t co-ordination between • Restoration of wildlife sites. aand participates in the driven a car since 2003, environmental groups. vvolunteer activities. says the purpose of the People might also not TThey are the ones to be Green Team is to bring believe that they can make a difference. celebrated and cheered on.” people together outdoors. Salatian thinks they can with the Green For more information about upcoming In 2005, she had started Team, which organizes events in partnership events, visit www.meetup.com/The-Lower- the first Canadian chapter with other groups. Mainland-Green-Team/ . tra. ight tion aler g Honda

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