We keep hope alive with stories
We keep hope alive with stories (Photo by Holi Ho/CC BY-NC)
“We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food.” ~ Barry Lopez I count myself fortunate to have grown up in a home filled with books and stories. Eeyore will always sound, in my...
Connecting to nature and my ancestry from the stern of a canoe
Me at the mouth of the Voyageurs and Old Voyageurs channels (Photo by Christine Beevis Trickett/NCC staff)
This story is about my experiences on and personal connections to what is now known as the French River, in Ontario. Long before European settlers came, this area was occupied by Indigenous Peoples. The original caretakers of the land, this is the...
Eddying out
Our cedar-strip canoe (Photo by CBT/NCC)
I can't remember the first time I ever held a paddle, but I do remember our family's first canoe: hunter-green, its aluminium gunnels were harshly unforgiving on knuckles if I dipped my paddle too close. My knees quickly became criss-crossed with...
Creative conservation challenge: Your 2015 nature year in review
Grizzly bear (Photo by Caroline Henri)
Each day, we’re surrounded by Canada’s beautiful living, breathing nature. But how often do we take the time to stop and think about all of the wonderful natural encounters we’ve had, or natural landscapes we’ve been...
Our top stories of 2015
You know how they say time flies when you're having fun? Well here at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), it seems like every time we blink, another year has passed. It's been a great year for conservation, and another great year of sharing...
A natural take on Black Friday
Crow (Photo by Linda Tanner, Wikimedia Commons)
Learn more about a few of our Canadian species and share these tweets to show others how natural #BlackFriday can be! ...
Why stories matter: An interview with Andy Goodman (Part 1)
Andy Goodman, co-founder and director of The Goodman Center
Much of my role at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) involves searching for great stories about our work, and then either sharing them myself or helping others to share them with our friends and supporters. For many years, I've been following...
This New Year's, I'm going all natural with my resolutions
Vancouver Celebration of Lights (Photo by Ranveig, Wikimedia Commons)
I'll admit it: I'm not a fan of making New Year's resolutions, partly because they're so easy to forget or to break once life gets busy. But resolutions are that much easier to keep when they're good for you, AND you feel good about them. This...
One thousand and one stories: Looking back on Land Lines' first year
Paddling in Algonquin, ON (Photo by D Beevis)
They say time flies when you're having fun. And perhaps that's just as true when you're telling — and sharing — great stories. That certainly seems to have been the case when I look back and realize that it's been a year since we first...
Nature's bright ideas
Crocuses in spring (Photo by CBT/NCC staff)
Fall may be a time of endings — the end of summer, the end of the field season, the end of the veggie patch for another year. But as leaves begin to fall and nature turns dormant, it's also a time of planning for new beginnings — and...
