Explore Collective Magazine Articles By Topic
Browse our growing collection of articles from current and previous issues of both the Comox Valley Collective and Strathcona Collective magazines by topic.
![Explore by Topic THE SEA IS RISING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_SeaLevels_Header-400x284.jpg)
If you stand on Saratoga Beach and look out at the water on a calm day, the Salish Sea appears silent, steady, and ...
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![Explore by Topic STYLE AND SUNSTAINABILITY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_ClothesMakers_Header2-400x284.jpg)
JIPSI TREE
It all began when JoAnne McElroy simultaneously left both her teaching and tree-planting ...
![Explore by Topic A GARDEN FOR EVERYONE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Garden_Header-400x284.jpg)
When you enter the Gardens on Anderton, you are greeted by a volunteer host who offers a smile, an orientation, a ...
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![Explore by Topic BURNING QUESTIONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_BurningQuestions_Header-400x284.jpg)
When we invite young people to visit the engineered landfill at the Comox Valley Waste Management Centre, we ask ...
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![Explore by Topic GREENING YOUR MONEY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_GreeningMoney_Header-400x284.jpg)
When Kermit the Frog said, “It’s not easy being green,” he wasn’t talking about investing, but he might as well ...
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![Explore by Topic WHY WE RISK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_WhyWeRisk_Header-400x284.jpg)
I don’t remember the summit of Mount Colonel Foster.
I know I stood on it with my friends, Chris and Sean. I ...
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![Explore by Topic NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Cougars_Header-400x284.jpg)
Not long after I moved to Cumberland, when it was easier to get lost in the forest, I was riding my dirt bike down ...
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![Explore by Topic FELLOWSHIP OF THE FOREST](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_ForestFellowship_Header-400x284.jpg)
“Expect mountain bikes, hikers, runners, dogs, children, and elders on these trails.”
—excerpt from the Interim ...
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![Explore by Topic SEAWEED, SVP](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Seaweed_Header-400x284.jpg)
Seaweed is a food resource long celebrated by traditional coastal peoples across the globe, including throughout ...
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![Explore by Topic THE TEACHING THAT NATURE PROVIDES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Fianna_Header-400x284.jpg)
In a field next to the ruddy red barn of the Black Creek farm owned by Margaret Douglas and Fred Hinz, a group of ...
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![Explore by Topic THE SEA IS RISING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_SeaLevels_Header-400x284.jpg)
If you stand on Saratoga Beach and look out at the water on a calm day, the Salish Sea appears ...
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![Explore by Topic STYLE AND SUNSTAINABILITY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_ClothesMakers_Header2-400x284.jpg)
JIPSI TREE
It all began when JoAnne McElroy simultaneously left both her teaching and ...
![Explore by Topic A GARDEN FOR EVERYONE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Garden_Header-400x284.jpg)
When you enter the Gardens on Anderton, you are greeted by a volunteer host who offers a ...
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![Explore by Topic BURNING QUESTIONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_BurningQuestions_Header-400x284.jpg)
When we invite young people to visit the engineered landfill at the Comox Valley Waste ...
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![Explore by Topic GREENING YOUR MONEY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_GreeningMoney_Header-400x284.jpg)
When Kermit the Frog said, “It’s not easy being green,” he wasn’t talking about investing, but ...
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![Explore by Topic WHY WE RISK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_WhyWeRisk_Header-400x284.jpg)
I don’t remember the summit of Mount Colonel Foster.
I know I stood on it with my friends, ...
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![Explore by Topic NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Cougars_Header-400x284.jpg)
Not long after I moved to Cumberland, when it was easier to get lost in the forest, I was ...
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![Explore by Topic FELLOWSHIP OF THE FOREST](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_ForestFellowship_Header-400x284.jpg)
“Expect mountain bikes, hikers, runners, dogs, children, and elders on these trails.” ...
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![Explore by Topic SEAWEED, SVP](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Seaweed_Header-400x284.jpg)
Seaweed is a food resource long celebrated by traditional coastal peoples across the globe, ...
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![Explore by Topic THE TEACHING THAT NATURE PROVIDES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_Fianna_Header-400x284.jpg)
In a field next to the ruddy red barn of the Black Creek farm owned by Margaret Douglas and ...
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