By Learning Lead – Melissa Dick As a Learning Lead with Waterlution, Melissa is learning about wild soundscapes by capturing audio recordings and listening. Read about her first soundscape recording experience here. My second soundscape recording and listening activity took place at Lac des Battures, a small lake located on Îles-des-Soeurs in Montréal, Quebec, on…
by Learning Lead- Katie Yantzi It’s taken me a bit longer than I’d hoped to tackle this next mending skill, for a few reasons: I’ve been busy with other life projects (including moving to a new city and home), but I was also a bit intimidated by mending knits. Why exactly? I’m not sure. I’ve…
by Learning Lead – Kristen Tymoshuk Hey everyone! Welcome back to my journey to learn how to fix bicycles. When we left off in blog one, we had just finished assessing the repairs that needed to be done to my bike. To start the repair process, this blog is all about general bike maintenance for…
by Learning Lead- Amy Sinclair I don’t know if you have ever had the chance to touch a sheep. But if you have, you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that your hand feels greasy afterward. That greasy feeling is caused by lanolin. Sheep produce lanolin to repel water to keep their body…
by Learning Lead- Joanne Cerdan The Gardening in Small Spaces project continues! In this blog, I will showcase some of the highlights, successes and failures of my gardening journey. I will also show you the Filipinx dish I learned to cook! I’m discovering more and more that I long for “roots” and a connection to…
by Learning Leads – Caden Hebb & Lily Barraclough When we last touched base, we had a raised bed layered inside with newspaper, grass clippings, manure, soil and sticks. This constitutes a “hügelkultur”; a self-fertilizing mound of organic matter on which plants grow. Organic matter can include grass, sticks, manure, soil, coffee grounds, spent tea…
by Learning Lead – Hannah Brown “If you’re new to mushroom foraging, it’s recommended that you don’t actually eat the mushrooms you pick; at least not for the first year or two.” *Disclaimer: Throughout my entire investigation, I need to stress how important it is you do not take my advice at square value. This…
Below are accounts of Waterlution’s youth advisory board members experiences’ forging careers in environmentalism and education this past summer. Kat Hill Enhancing my creative skills goes beyond workshop development and facilitation. Through collaboration with the Young Water Speaks Travelling Exhibition team, I was able to help with a number of tasks to get the exhibition…
Igor Vieira e coordenador de programa Comunidades costeiras ao redor do mundo apresentam múltiplas formas de se relacionar com os recursos hídricos. Compreender e participar dessas dinâmicas é um desafio de várias frentes, já que envolvem habitações, atividades de desenvolvimento, crescimento populacional e como isso se relaciona com o oceano, ambientes estuarinos e rios urbanos.…
By Program Coordinator Igor Vieira Coastal communities around the world showcase multiple ways of relating to water resources. Understanding and participating in these dynamics is a challenge on many fronts, as they involve housing, development activities, population growth, and how these relate to the ocean, estuarine environments, and urban rivers. It is a multifaceted challenge…
