PICS | Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

Podcast

A Radical Act of Hope Podcast

This limited series podcast explores the life, work, and wisdom of Siila Watt-Cloutier.

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Explainer

The power of confluence

What does it take to create a flood plan that actually works for the whole community?

Learn about integrated flood management planning

News

15 scholars receive new scholarship

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions has named the first cohort of recipients of the Uplifting Reciprocal Research Scholarship Pilot Program.

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The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions catalyzes and mobilizes research, partnerships, and knowledge that generate climate action in British Columbia and around the world.

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Funding Opportunity

Climate Internship Program

Does your organization need assistance with its climate-related goals? Apply for a PICS Climate Internship grant.

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Funding Opportunity

University Climate Knowledge Mobilization Events

Are you hosting a climate event through a PICS-network university? We can provide support.

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Reflections

What does reconciliation look like in an era of climate turmoil?

PICS Indigenous Research and Partnerships Lead Janna Wale reflects on four pathways towards climate justice and reconciliation.

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Territory Acknowledgments

The PICS main office is located on the territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples, at the University of Victoria.

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lək̓ʷəŋən

Hay’sxw’qa lək̓ʷəŋən elth’telnexw, and W̱SÁNEĆ elth’telnexw
‘I’tsun’ult syaas tu lək̓ʷəŋən tunuxw
Hay’sxw’qa siem si’ye’ye

Thanking all Lekwungen peoples and Saanich peoples.
We work on Lekwungen lands.
Thank you, all respected friends.

SENĆOŦEN

JIEĆEȽ ȽTE OL E TŦE W̱SÁNEĆ I, LEQEṈEN EȽTÁLṈEW̱. ĆȺI ȽTE ȻE ÁȽE TIÁ E TŦE ÁLEṈENEȻs EṮ W̱SÁNEĆ I, LEQEṈEN.

HÍSW̱KE SIÁM

We are thankful to the Saanich and Lekwungen people. We work here in the homelands of the Saanich and Lekwungen peoples. Thank you, honourable ones.

U OȽET ȽTE OL E TŦE MEQ EȽTÁLṈEW̱ ÁȽE I, TŦE MEQ XÁXE TEṈEW̱

We respect all the people here and all the sacred land/s.

At the University of Victoria, where the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is hosted, we acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

PICS and its university network have campuses across the province known as British Columbia. We respect and acknowledge the many unceded traditional territories and Nations where PICS universities stand including:

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) • Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) • səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) • q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie)• kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) • Qayqayt• Kwantlen• Semiahmoo• Tsawwassen• Stó:lō • Syilx (Okanagan) • Dakelh (Carrier) territory: Lheidli T’enneh, Lhtako, Nazko, Lhoosk’uz • ?Esdilagh, a Tsilhqot’in Nation • Dane-zaa territory: Doig River, Blueberry River, and Halfway River• Tsimshian territory: Kitsumkalum, Kitselas, Lax Kw’alaams, and Metlakatla • and Gitwinksihlkw, a Nisga’a Village.