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9 Ways to Use Your Voice for Climate Action
Earth Day 2026 is just around the corner and this year’s theme is Our Power, Our Planet which is about the power we all have as individuals to make a difference. With that in mind, this week I’m looking at 9 ways to use your voice for climate action. Sometimes the world can make us feel small, but we are truly more powerful than we realize and our voices do make a difference. Use your voice for climate action Our Power, Our Planet is Earth Day 2026’s theme reflecting a fundamental truth: environmental progress doesn’t depend on any single administration or election. It’s sustained by daily actions of communities, educators,…
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6 Red Flags to Look Out for when Selling Items Online
I’ve been helping a friend downsize recently, which has resulted in a lot of online sales of their belongings. Selling things online has a lot of benefits, but it can also open us up to potential scams and people that are up to no good. I’ve seen a lot of good and bad behaviours over this last while, so am sharing some of the red flags I’ve been looking out for when selling my items online. Why I love selling items online Selling items online might not be for everyone, but I love doing it for so many reasons. Here are a few of them: 1. Stretch your budget –…
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What you need to know about World Water Day and how to participate
Every year on March 22, people around the world mark World Water Day—a day dedicated to recognizing the value of freshwater and the challenges surrounding access to it. With World Water Day just around the corner, I am exploring what it is and which theme the UN has chosen for 2026. What is World Water Day? World Water Day is observed every year on March 22 and has been recognized as a United Nations observance since 1993. The annual event highlights the importance of freshwater and raises awareness about global water challenges. Each year, UN-Water selects a theme and leads the global campaign, coordinating a task force that helps plan…
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How to Shop all Year Round for Christmas Gifts
A Christmas post in March might be a little unusual, but I’m giving it a go anyhow. I truly love buying gifts for people, but Christmas and holiday gifts became my least favourite ones to buy. The holidays season always seems to come with pressure to buy gifts and various gift giving obligations that that take the fun out of it. I actually boycotted buying gifts for a few years because I didn’t want to just be a consumer. Eventually I found a way to enjoy giving gifts again and I did that by shopping all year round. This not only helps make gift giving fun, but also has a…
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How Olympic Athletes Are Advocating for Climate Action
With the Winter Olympics in full swing, it’s an interesting time to think about how climate change might be impacting the future of winter sports. When the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics were in our backyards, we saw the need to truck in dozens of loads of snow to build up the venues as warm weather caused snow to melt. This year at the Milano Cortina games, we’ve been hearing the complaints of warm weather heating up the ice tracks for luge and skeleton. With such weather dependent sports and the clear impacts changing climate is having on them, many Winter Olympic athletes are using their platforms to join the climate…
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44 Ways to Give your Loved One the Gift of Time this Valentine’s Day
I’m always looking for ways to give gifts that don’t involve a huge amount of “stuff.” It isn’t easy though, because gifts of stuff are often easy–especially when things are always being advertised and wish lists are often being updated. With Valentine’s Day approaching, I’ve been thinking of ways to give the give of time instead of the gift of stuff–or at least maybe a bit of both. What is the “gift of time”? There is a basic idea out there that everyone receives love a different way, more specifically in one of five ways: acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, gifts, and quality time. I’ve mentioned the…
