We are a fan of Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia Inc.. After reading his book, “Let my people go surfing – the education of a reluctant businessman” we were encourage to keep moving down the path of fostering Rain City’s style of responsible business. Yvon lays out his alternative vision of business, detailing eco ...
Rain City is honoured to support the My Arms Wide Open Foundation. This is an great organization that is involved in a Donation Challenge at Global Giving Foundation. They need lots of donors to support the foundation’s current project and ask you to contribute if you can. To support them please visit the Global Giving ...
Both Rain City team members, Tyson Atleo and Colin Doylend, will presenting the 2011 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference this October in Vancouver. They will be presenting an oral presentation on “Tsawalk: Connecting the Nuu-chah-nulth World View to New Directions in management of the Salish Sea” during Session 28 – Knowledge translation and exchange: Improving ecosystem management ...
We are pleased to announce that Rain City’s team member, Colin Doylend, has just received the Professional Level Aboriginal Economic Development Certification from the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers. Economic Development Officers need to be thoroughly trained, highly skilled and committed to building economic capacity in order to provide professional support and ...
“If You’re Not Making Mistakes, then You’re Not Doing Anything.” This quote belongs to Hall of Fame basketball player/coach John Wooden, who was not only well aware that it’s okay to regularly make mistakes but that you’re doing something wrong if you don’t. It’s easy to expect perfection from ourselves and/or fear the judgment that ...
The Vancouver Tool Library (VTL) is a cooperative tool lending library. Perfect for the our team at Rain City when installing wind and solar measurement devices – they carry a wide variety of tools for home repair, gardening, and bicycle maintenance, which is loaned to members free of charge. This is perfect for us by ...
Human Intelligence and the Environment May 07, 2011 By Noam Chomsky Source: International Socialist Review I’LL BEGIN with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old man of American biology. They were debating the possibility of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. ...
A Joint Venture of two indigenous peoples groups, KAwerau A8D Ahuwhenua Trust, Hawaiian-owned Innovations Development Group and Eastland Group, a local power operator, is planning a 50 MW geothermal power plant project, called Te Ahi O Maui in New Zealand. Reported from New Zeland, a international indigenous peoples project aims to develop a geothermal power ...
On June 11th, 2011, one of our associates Geoff de Ruiter recently won the FortisBC Energy Challenge with his team “Team Synergy” at the International Student Energy Summit. After a very intense week of 5 individual challenges Team Synergy won the contest by proposed the most viable, versatile, and innovative district energy system to a ...
Written by Keph Senett Source: PV Pulse With the cooperation of politicians and grassroots organizations, Bolivia is set to pass the Law of Mother Earth, which will grant nature the same rights and protections as humans. The piece of legislation, called la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra, is intended to encourage a radical ...
Located at the west end of Moberly Lake, southwest of Fort. St. John, is the First Nations community of West Moberly. Rain City team members, David Isaac and Colin Doylend, had the honour and pleasure of visiting the Nation. West Moberly is already a solar community, having proven their leadership in renewable energy and energy ...
May 31st is going to be a great day for the wind industry in Victoria. The Canadian Wind Energy Association has contracted our team at Rain City to help them organize a “day at the Legislature” to engage with Members of the Legislative Assembly and BC Government Ministry staff from a number of relevant departments. ...
The team at Rain City is proud to announce that one of their team members, Colin Doylend, has been BC Policy Committee for the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association. Not only is Rain City involved in the initial steps to develop BC’s first utility scale geothermal energy development in the interior of the province by representing ...
The team at Rain City is proud to support the Wild Side Trail located within the beautiful traditional territory of the Ahousaht FIrst Nation on Flores Island – near Tofino. Earlier this month we gave a small donation and look forward to traversing the trail later this summer. ...
The Rain City Social Capital Foundation is proud to become a member of the The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. This is an open network to promote giving, sharing, and philanthropy in Aboriginal communities across the country. What They Do The goal of The Circle is to connect with and empower First ...
Advocating and negotiating an equitable participation for First Nation communities, including land and resource development for the benefit of all in the mining industry is something our team strives for. That is why Rain City is proud to become a member of the Canadian Aboriginal Minerals Association. Our team is actively involved in establishing relations, ...
The annotated bibliography by Rosemary Dohan and Vivek Voora entitled “First Nations Carbon Collaborative — Indigenous Peoples And Carbon Markets” is a great resource that provides a significant insight into the emergence of carbon markets and the opportunities for opportunity for indigenous communities. This annotated bibliography was written to support the First Nations Carbon Collaborative, an initiative spearheaded ...
April 21, 2011 Premier Christy Clark PO Box 9041, Stn Provincial Government Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9E1 Dear Premier Clark, Thank you for the leadership race commitments you made to aggressively establishBritish Columbia as a leader in clean energy. We appreciated the connection youmade between investments in clean energy and the ability to create jobs ...
Rain City is proud to support We Canada, a nation-wide initiative for sustainability that brings the diversity of Canadian voices to the Earth Summit 2012, and to the attention of our government. The lead-up to this event is a chance for us to look at where we have come from, where we need to go, ...
Our team is proud to announce that we are now an Associate Member of the Social Venture Network. We are looking forward to being a active member of the group that connects, supports and inspires business leaders and social entrepreneurs in expanding practices that build a just and sustainable economy. Like SVN, we focus on ...
