Repair Café: where the magic happens

The Hal Rogers Centre was filled with the sounds of the Repair Café last Saturday, May 31—drills whirred, soldering irons heated up, hammers pounded and bike wheels turned amid the […]

Green infrastructure in Kamloops—it’s here!

Although it was completed in December 2022, it took awhile for the City of Kamloops to load its Green Infrastructure Research Project Report on the website. It’s there now, however, […]

Help protect the Juniper Ridge grasslands 

Did you know that 30% of BC’s endangered species live in grassland habitats year-round, and many more, including elk, mule deer, and bighorn sheep, are dependent on them for an […]

The housing crisis—not just for people

In September 2024, Kamloops City Council voted to rezone a piece of property along Ord Road from agricultural to urban—setting the stage for a planned 3-building, 185-unit development.  The land […]

Native plants presentation with Eva Durance

A native plant meadow with a tall mullein plant in the foreground

One of the project groups taking shape is called Nature-Friendly Yards, focused on making our private spaces more ecologically friendly. This is a free event open to anyone with an […]

Flushing our forests down the toilet

So what was the deal with toilet paper (tp)? Why was it so hard to find for a while at the start of the pandemic?  Really, it was simply a […]

No yeast? No problem!

People have been baking leavened bread (the kind that rises) for thousands of years—long before yeast was commercially available at the local grocer.