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Reflections

Like paddlers in a canoe: Lessons on climate and reciprocity in a PICS summer internship

PICS intern Taylor Griffiths reflects on her internship and how she learned that addressing climate change is about more than data or technology. It’s about relationships to land, culture, and each other.

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Sunset over the Okanagan Valley with a woman standing at a lookout point, viewed from behind.
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What I learned about seasonal readiness from inside the health system

PICS intern Andra Tarta reflects on her summer internship with Interior Health, offering an inside look at how seasonal readiness takes shape in practice across the health system.

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How disinformation undermines climate action: Lessons from COP30

False information and outright falsehoods are undermining climate action. This year’s UN climate conference created a framework to help heal our information environments.

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Janna Wale, wearing a cedar hat and casual clothes, leans down to touch the ocean, while crouching on a rock on the shore. Behind her, sunset fades to twilight.
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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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Daniel stands on the side of a rocky mountain, overlooking the Fraser River on a cloudy morning. The river winds through the valley below, with cloud-covered mountains in the distance. Daniel, seen from the side, wears jeans and a blue button-up shirt. His short brown hair is visible, but his face is turned away. His hands rest on his hips.
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Climate Reflections in B.C.’s Southern Interior 

On a recent tour of the Southern Interior, PICS' Daniel Arbour explores on-the-ground stories of climate action.

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Emma Cosman stands in a white hallway with her hands by her side and a serious expression on her face. She is wearing a black sweater with white flowers and khaki pants. Her blonde hair is worn down, lying passed her shoulders.
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Living climate change: Emma Cosman

“They were dreading having to go back to the places they were living in.”

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Living climate change: Caroline Tucker

“It felt like the air was on fire and we were trapped inside a cloud of smoke.”

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Living climate change: Rachel Stern

“This is a sensory nightmare.” PhD student Rachel Stern reflects on her experience of the 2021 heat dome.

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The ability to map floods has never been better... so why is flood damage still growing?

The perfect flood map doesn’t exist, but that shouldn’t stop decision-makers from using the ones that are currently within reach. 

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Everything is connected: Supporting Indigenous climate resilience in a PICS summer internship  

PICS intern, Marcela, shares personal insights from her summer spent in Haida Gwaii, illustrating the importance of reciprocity, respect for nature, and collective climate action.

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Climbing the mountain: Climate, colonialism, and reconciliation

"Climate change is a direct outcome of the superimposition of a worldview that sees Land and its resources as something to be exploited, rather than something sustaining and life-giving."

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Living climate change: Divine Lwamba

“My room is usually my safe space but I remember feeling so unsafe in that room.”

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