Showing posts with label Municipal elections and the natural environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Municipal elections and the natural environment. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2022

VIVA Urban Nature!


Woodpecker home

 "Viva" (from the verb vivere -- to live) denotes all that's alive, lively, and vivacious -- which is what we want our local trees, plants and wildlife to be within and around our towns. We want to hear the "viva voce" (live voice) of birdsong. 

Luckily, in Greater Victoria a new group of municipal election candidates came forward who promote the conservation of urban greenspace and parks. This "VIVA" is the Vancouver Island Voters Association, a fresh voice on the political landscape which, among other things, supports preservation of natural landscape. 

Re. housing affordability, according to their platform: Help save single-family heritage neighbourhoods by giving home-owners a tax holiday for providing secondary suites and tiny homes in gardens, at rents under $1000. 

For combatting Climate Change: Retain an urban forest with lots of "tees taller than the buildings", which provide shade and reduce the heat-island effect of concrete. 

For safe public parks access: Open the entrance roads for te mobility-challenged, and remove entrenched tent-encampments in which violence too often erupts and plant-scape is destroyed.

VIVA possesses a tone of open-minded free expression, tolerance, and diversity of opinion. We need more of that in the CRD (and the rest of the province), and we need that tolerance to be extended not only to the human but also the nonhuman life-forms which share our space and enhance the beauty of our surroundings.

Check out vivavictoria.ca 


 A "bee-loud glade"