Great news for local green-minded folk. In the run up to their forthcoming 25th anniversary, local environmental group AWARE (Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment) has some exciting announcements to make. As a recent AWARE release stated: AWARE has traditionally been a volunteer-run organization and as such has faced the challenges shared by […][...]
Energy, waste, recycling, land-use planning, carbon emissions, air quality, climate change… The topic of producing electricity through burning our garbage touches on many of the key environmental issues of our time. Not surprisingly, it is also quite polarizing. There is significant movement surrounding the potential of bringing a waste incineration plant to the Sea-to-Sky (click […][...]
On May 1st, in partnership with the Association for Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) we will launch a new event series at the museum: GREEN TALKS. Occurring the first Wednesday of every 2nd month, we will feature an evening presentation on a selected environmental topic. Coming up first: IT DOESN’T GET MORE LOCAL […][...]
Around the same time that environmental activists were fighting to save old-growth forest in the upper Elaho Valley, AWARE’s leadership was fighting its own battle to bring some sort of focus and coherence to the organization. According to a June 15, 2000 article in the Pique, at one AWARE meeting more than 50 different environmental issues […][...]
