By Karen Kun, Waterlution President Wow, there has been so much change. It is hard at times to know how we are all going to come out the other side. There is so much to read, absorb, discuss, and depending on one’s circumstance, it seems like there are multiple ways that people are experiencing the…
By Dona Geagea On June 14, 2019, as we closed the final day of the first ever Water Innovation Lab Lebanon (WIL Lebanon 2019) and watched the amazing young leaders pitch their team projects, we were met with exuberance as we reflected on all that we had accomplished. With solid partners behind us offering support,…
By Melissa Dick with support from Ally Dick It’s been a few years now that I’ve wanted to learn to make my own soap. I would start looking up instructions and recipes, and get overwhelmed by the seeming complexity, and also intimidated by warnings of working with some ingredients. I had talked about it with…
By Kirsten Mathison & Olivia Allen Kirsten Mathison was a volunteer Youth Advisor and storybook author in Waterlution’s 2018/19 YAB cohort. Olivia Allen is Waterlution’s Project Lead for Youth Programs. KM: These days, optimism and building life-skills feel more important now than ever before. There is no way that Danielle could have known that a…
By Charlene Claudio At the beginning of last year, when Danielle first shared her concept of The Cautious Optimist project, I had immediately taken quite an interest (although, it took me an entire year to find time to listen to the podcast she had recommended about preparing for a climate apocalypse!) But also within the…
No matter where you live in the world, I am guessing you are consumed by global and local news on the spread of COVID-19 and doing your best to figure out how to act, what to prepare for and what this means for your region, country, community, work, family and friends. Over the course of…
By Noa Mayer “There is a strong cultural identity associated with being a farmer”, my brother Sam told me as we spoke over the phone last week. As a result, a rigid belief system for practicing farming has formed. What Sam has noticed as he begins his own farming journey, is that there is a…
By Karen Kun, President As 2019 comes to a close and a new decade is upon us, a natural process of reflection emerges and I look forward to sharing some thoughts from the year past, some program highlights, learnings and Waterlution’s focus on leadership in the current state of the world. We live in a…
By: Felicity Feinman Hi! My name is Felicity Feinman. I care about the environment and also drive a car that releases greenhouse gases on a weekly basis. I know I’m not alone in this conflict. Many of my friends haven’t bothered to get a driver’s license at all and there’s a litany of statistics showing…
Written by Laina Timberg, Coordinator, Youth Programs, Toronto, O.N. & Megan Cornall, Water Innovation Lab Global Coordinator, Vancouver, B.C. The Water Innovation Lab Canada 2019 (WILCanada2019) ran from October 5-11 in Calgary and Kananaskis, Alberta. It was the first time a WIL had returned to Alberta since they were moved to a global scale four…