Please note our speaker change for May 7: Dr. Jan Conradi will speak on climate change. Our scheduled speaker (Garth Covernton) is not available for this Friday due to a family emergency, and he will now speak to us on June 4. Fortunately, Jan Conradi has come to our rescue and will speak on…
On June 4th, our speaker will be Garth Covernton, providing us insight into the issue of microplastic contamination in our environment and specifically in our oceans. Garth Covernton is a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria studying the source, fate, and ecological implications of microplastic contamination in the marine environment. Garth completed his BSc…
Our April speaker, Roger Griffiths, delighted us with his presentation “Spring from the Countryside to the Alpine”. By narrating a fast-moving video he whisked us away from our pandemic-defined lives on the Island to the countryside of England, the shorelines of Ireland, the highlands of Scotland, even the spring flower shows in Holland, before landing…
Our March speaker was George Hanson, the President of the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance and managing partner of Clayton Consulting. George Hanson has a multifaceted background formed by being involved in many economic activities on Vancouver Island. In 2007 the Vancouver Economic Alliance was an idea to establish a non-government entity with the philosophy “together…
Our February 5th speaker was Barbara Murray of Bears Matter Consulting, speaking about Charlie Russell and Kamchatka Bears. Barb lives in Fairwinds and shared her bear conservation efforts from over the years with us. From her first encounters with Black bears in Vancouver North and Whistler to adventures in Kamchatka Region, Russia, we had our…
Did you know that in 1945, knowledge doubled every ten years? And now it doubles every 12 months? How about that recent studies demonstrate that traditional methods of learning – lectures, reading, studying – provide abysmal knowledge retention? Retention rates of 5% from lectures? 10% from reading?…
