By Helena Vallée Dallaire – Youth Program Coordinator In recent years, creativity and art have been increasingly used to inform a larger and more diverse audience about the importance and urgency of our environmental situation. Art has activated itself through all of its mediums: whether by using its content, its concept, its material components, or…
By Stephanie Pheasant-Recollet, Youth Programs Assistant Working with Birch Bark had been a long-awaited skill that I had tucked away, during the Spring of 2016. Just last year, that skill resurfaced, but evolved with a newfound understanding and appreciation for the versatile material. With the guidance of my Anishinaabe culture and friends, my daughter (6)…
By Lily Falk, Waterlution Youth Programs Assistant – Lily Falk is working with Waterlution this summer to help kick-start Young Water Speaks, our new youth water storytelling contest. It’s late summer 2014 and I’m walking in a scrubby, birch forest in the Swedish Arctic, watching my new friend Mikael jump around the woods collecting mushrooms.…
By Rosheen Tetzlaff, Summer Youth Programs Assistant at Waterlution Rosheen volunteered with the Waterlution Youth Advisory Board in 2018/19 and is currently working on their youth programming for the summer. She is a recent Environmental & Conservation Science graduate from the University of Alberta and a lover of the outdoors. This year I graduated from…
By Olivia Allen, Project Lead for Youth Programs About a year ago, when the Youth Advisory Board decided to carry forward the Cautious Optimist Project in memory of the wonderful Danielle Moore, my heart was warmed. The fact that the project was envisioned, designed and launched by Danielle, along with how deeply it resonated with…
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…
