Connection and purpose | Camille Seaman | TEDxVictoria
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It wasn't until she was 29 years old and walking across the frozen sea towards Russia that Camille Seaman came to truly understand what it means to be *of* planet Earth.
Camille's awakening has led her on a lifelong journey to document the changes to our climate - and our shared home.
For over a decade Camille Seaman has been documenting climate change and extreme weather around the world.
A photographer and Senior TED Fellow from Berkely, CA, Camille's photographs have received many awards including a National Geographic Award in 2006 and the Critical Mass Top Monograph Award in 2007.
TEDxVictoria takes place each year in Victoria, BC, Canada, and is Vancouver Island's largest TEDx event. This year marked the fourth year of the event, which saw more than 700 people gather at the century-old McPherson Playhouse for a full day of Ideas Worth Spreading based around the theme of Pursuit of Knowledge.
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Integrating nature into urban environments | Bianca Bodley | TEDxVictoria
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What if cities were more 'jungle' than 'concrete jungle'? What if nature and urban environments were seamlessly integrated?
Bio-designer and owner of the Biophilia Design Collective in Victoria, BC, Bianca Bodley's goal is to display the seamless fusion of nature and built structures.
TEDxVictoria takes place each year in Victoria, BC, Canada, and is Vancouver Island's largest TEDx event. This year marked the fourth year of the event, which saw more than 700 people gather at the century-old McPherson Playhouse for a full day of Ideas Worth Spreading based around the theme of Pursuit of Knowledge.
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48 Hours in Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia is one of my favorite places in all of Canada. Here's a fun little recap of my trip last week. Get more information about Victoria here:
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Endurance Ridge to Babbington Hill - East Sooke Park
The name is well earned. Although only climbing to a summit of 230m, there is a lot of up and down on the way as you dip down into various ponds and small depressions in the land. The resulting ecosystem is very diverse, and can look completely different around every bend on the trail. The trail itself is challenging, requiring a bit of All fours scrambling in some parts, a lot of loose rocks and a few sections of seasonal run-off (trail is a shallow creek). Not a trail for beginners. Sturdy shoes are a must, and a walking stick is a good idea especially in the wet season.
Round-trip to summit:
Distance- 6km
Summit - 230m
Aprox Time- 3hrs
Difficulty Rating - 3.5
Mt Finlayson - North Side Ascent
This trail to the summit of Mt Finlayson is a little easier that the approach from Goldstream Park, there is no all-fours scrambling on this trail. and it is usually not as busy, but there isnt much parking at the trail head.
Be prepared for a grind all the way up, not many flat sections and lots of stairs. Fill your biggest water bottle, stretch well, and giver to the summit! Or....take it slow and look at the trees and stuff.
Named after Roderick Finlayson of the Hudson's Bay Company. Born in Scotland in 1818; arrived in Victoria in 1843 and took charge of the Fort (Victoria) in 1844. In charge for many years, and was named Chief Factor [Chief Trader] in 1859. Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) 1851-63. Retired in 1872 and died in Victoria in 1892.
Mount Finlayson is a 419 m (1,375 ft) mountain located about 14 km northwest of Victoria. It is located within the Gowlland Range (part of the Vancouver Island Ranges). It is bordered by Goldstream Provincial Park and Gowlland Tod Provincial Park, and forms an imposing feature looming above Saanich Inlet for those travelling south on the Malahat Drive portion of Highway 1. A steep trail leading up to the summit is easily accessible from Goldstream Park. There are also trails that link up to the summit from Bear Mountain and these trail maps are available from the resort.
The views from the top of this mountain provide magnificent, 360° views of the Greater Victoria area. From the top you can also see the Strait of Juan de Fuca and an unobstructed view of the Olympic Mountain range, as well as Mount Baker.
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Sooke Potholes Slide Show
The Sooke Potholes; favoured destination for families and high school students looking to skip out of school for the day (the local high school is about 10 minutes up the road)
It is also a fantastic place to wander along the rivers edge, taking in the sights and sounds of this beautiful ecosystem. There have been great trail additions and improvements, making some of the more scenic destinations easily accessible. However, it has also made these small bends in the river quite crowded. So bring your sandals, but wear your boots and hike a kilometre or two up the Galloping Goose Trail and discover your own stretch of paradise.
If you are a cyclist, the Galloping Goose Trail runs all the way from downtown Victoria, and is easy to ride to the Potholes and back in a day. Its is an old rail line, so the trail does not have any steep inclines to deal with. There is no lighting on the trail, so be sure to leave the park with enough daylight to make the ride back.
Roche Cove Park
Most of this trail is on old logging access roads, making it very accessible. However, it does get pretty swampy in the wet season, a creek takes over part of the trail. The trail along Matheson creek is thin and slippery, but not very technical.
Monarch Teacher Network of Canada
Monarch Teacher Network of Canada (MTN of C) is a growing collective of educators and nature enthusiasts that teach and inspire people to connect with nature through hands-on training and professional development workshops. We are committed to fostering a deeper connection to the natural world through explorations of art, science and environmental action.
How Nature Can Nurture a Town: Pam Dorr at TEDxCapeMay 2013
Pam Dorr, the social entrepreneur recently featured on the CBS Evening News for helping to turn her town around, shows that a natural nuisance can help nurture her town's economy.
A native of the Bay Area, Pam Dorr spent the first 18 years of her career in product development and management for companies like Esprit, Victoria's Secret Catalog and BabyGap. Seeking a more meaningful contribution, she escaped to rural Alabama in 2003 to join the Auburn University Rural Studio as an Outreach Fellow. Her architectural fellowship soon led to a job with the Rural Studio and the creation of the Housing Resource Center at HERO.
HERO supports sustainable housing development and positive change for over 400 families a year in impoverished Hale County. In addition to working with HERO, Pam founded Habitat for Humanity Hale County in 2006. Community development capital and equity for both organizations now totals over $8.5 million. In her spare time, she volunteers for the West Alabama Youth Services and Girl's Group Home.
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Virtual Nature Relaxation - VR 360° 5K Video - Creek Canyon Trail, BC, Canada
VR 360° Columbia River and Lynn Creek Canyon Trail in British Columbia, Canada is one of the best views of the bridge and the surrounding forest designed for VR, headset recommended for best 360° viewing!
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Connect with Nature, Here on Salt Spring Island : Episode 1 of Naturally Ours in 4K
Welcome to Salt Spring Island to reconnect with nature and Episode 1 of Season 1 in 4K, #NaturallySaltSpring of Naturally Ours (
In this first episode, meet Cowichan Knowledge Keeper Hwiemtun and Geographer and Artist Briony Penn. Hwiemtun welcomes us to the Coast Salish Territory and shares the importance of connecting to the land, because as his Uncle reminds us, we are all Indigenous to somewhere in the world. This connection to the land and to nature is something Briony explores from the perspective of the member of a family who were settlers on Salt Spring Island and the need for reconciliation to move forward. There's a saying on this Island, 'Don't try and change Salt Spring, let Salt Spring change you.
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- the Cowichan People at
- Briony Penn at
- Cusheon Lake at
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Shinrin-yoku - Improve Your Health
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Welcome to shinrin-yoku! Shinrin-yoku is Japanese and means forest bathing.
The term shinrin yoku was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has become a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine.
Being in nature, walking or sitting in a forest, listening to the sounds of nature, watching the green of the trees - all this can have a very positive effect on us.
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You might ask: What's the connection between counselling and words? I think and believe there is a strong connection.
Other cultures have a lot of wisdom, and of course, problems too. I believe words can express quite exactly feelings and thoughts, worries and joys. Sometimes our languages are missing something that in other languages is described very accurately. So, why don't we enrich our languages with words or phrases from other cultures?
While working on my videos I learned many new fascinating words that are absolutely worth being included in our dictionaries.
My explanations only can give a short overview about the above word or phrase. If you are interested and keen on knowing more, click on the provided links or just go ahead and explore and discover more yourself.
If you ever find a new word, you think is wonderful, let me know please!
Thank you!
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Columbia: The forgotten history of early British Columbia
This video is about the formative time before we were officially named British Columbia. Columbia, or Proto British Columbia, was the direct precursor of our province and its tragic story haunted the important figures of our early history. Its story contains important lessons and inspiration for our future.
The North West Company established the first longterm presence on the West Coast. It created two administrative districts called New Caledonia in the north run from Fort St James and Columbia in the south run from Fort George(now called Astoria). When the NWC was taken over by the Honorable Hudson Bay Company these territories were amalgamated into one called Columbia. Because the HBC was given the powers of government it created its new capital in Vancouver (now in Washington State). This form of government is called a Company State, exactly like the East India Company that governed India.
For over two decades the HBC created a multicultural society living in peace with First Peoples. Its working languages were French and Chinook Wawa, a hybrid language made originally mostly from Chinook and French. Columbia was the original area that is sometimes called Cascadia, which comes from the French word used for the mountains 'Les Cascades'.
After the 1846 Border Treaty was implemented in 1849, many of the people from Columbia went north to the new Columbia, British Columbia, especially since the new US regime did not allow black people or Hawaiians to live in their newly acquired territory.
In the north, political governance was from Victoria, Langley and New Westminster although many settled in what is now Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Coquitlam and some around Burrard Inlet and False Creek.
You can learn how more about how 'British' Columbia lost what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho and parts of Montana through the Kumtuks videos Losing Columbia and Keeping New Caledonia on YouTube. This old territory is full of place names from the old Columbia and it maintains a cultural connection to this day which leads people to refer to the whole area as a single cultural region which they call Cascadia.
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Sam Sullivan is a Member of the Order of Canada, a former Mayor of Vancouver and Cabinet Minister of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
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Nature Kindergarten: Deepening Connections with Place with Dr. Enid Elliot
Dr. Enid Elliot discusses how active engagement and immersion outdoors allows children to connect deeply with nature through play and experience traditional ways of knowing at the annual Robert Bateman Lecture hosted by Royal Roads University on August 6, 2014.
Elliot is one of the founders of the nature kindergarten movement in Canada and is an early learning and child care instructor at Camosun College and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria.
Royal Road’s annual Robert Bateman Lecture celebrates Bateman’s legacy of environmental practice, communication and education. The lecture supports the Robert and Birgit Bateman bursary, awarded to students in the MA in Environmental Education and Communication degree program who demonstrate financial need.
Dockside Green in Victoria
This is a video shot and edited by Big Green. Dockside Green is a real estate development in Victoria, BC which features world-class environmental design.
Those who are nature-wise have an edge in today’s world | Ronna Schneberger | TEDxCanmore
In today’s busy distracted world, those who carve out 15 min to walk in a park or forest on a regular basis will have an edge. Research shows time in a park or forest practicing Shinrin Yoku or forest bathing will decrease stress and anxiety, and it will increase the ability to focus, think critically and make better decision.
For the past 25 years Ronna has been exploring ways of connecting people to themselves through time in wild places. This interest has led her to study a variety of practices including leadership development, meditation, storytelling, indigenous traditions, and most recently Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing).
Ronna is one of the first people in Canada to guide the simple yet powerful practice of Shinrin Yoku. As faculty with Leadership Development at the Banff Centre, Ronna has been working with professionals and executives using nature as the teacher to create powerful reflections and transformation. When people feel connected to nature they become connected to themselves, others and everything else in their life becomes clear. Ronna provides effective tools so people can listen to themselves and what nature has to tell them. With our increasingly busy technological world, research shows it is the nature wise who will have the advantage.
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A new approach to oil spill recovery | Vicki Kleu & Austin Sawyer | TEDxVictoria
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Oil spills have decimated the environment throughout the Pacific Northwest and around the world. It's the reality that mobilized two teenagers from Victoria to invent a newer, better, and safer method for cleaning up these devastating environmental disasters.
Students from Victoria, BC who created new technology for cleaning oil spills - while in high school.
TEDxVictoria takes place each year in Victoria, BC, Canada, and is Vancouver Island's largest TEDx event. This year marked the fourth year of the event, which saw more than 700 people gather at the century-old McPherson Playhouse for a full day of Ideas Worth Spreading based around the theme of Pursuit of Knowledge.
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Chasing Della - Filmed on-location in Strathcona Park, British Columbia
The goal, was to make it to Della Falls from the Bedwell Lakes area.
With two route options, and 5 days to try at it, we were confident we would make it.
Day 1- Big travel day. With a few stops on the way up island from Victoria, the drive took about 6 hours. After which, we were ever more excited to hit the trail and stretch our legs. We got to the park late in the day, so just set out to make it to Baby Bedwell for the first night. It was a great place to camp and has a gorgeous view. There was no rain, no wind, and no clouds. We had nice little fire (to help clear deadfall before forest fire season) cooked steak kabobs and a few drinks to celebrate the culmination of a month of prep and planning.
Day 2 - We made an 8km hike into the alpine, trying to make it to Cream Lake. With a late start, deep snow, and poorly conditioned legs, we didn't quite make it. The snow was hard enough to walk on in most places, but there was still lots of post-holing. This section of the trip was the most visually stunning as we got to enjoy the spring bloom change back into crisp winter scenes (minus the cold temperatures). We hiked until sunset and then set up on a nice hillside spot just past Little Jim Lake.Our campsite had everything we needed; some tall brush for a windbreak, a big tree to hoist our food, a small stream 5 steps away, flat soft spots for tents, and an amazing view. A hot meal, small fire to dry boots, baileys and coffee under the stars. This probably was the best night of the trip.
Day 3- We continued towards Cream Lake and discovered the trail continued over the glacier at the base of Mt. Sempitus, and we were with-out suitable ice/snow gear. So we bushwhacked our way down into Drinkwater Valley, scrambling down steep hillside until we were diverted by waterfalls. After an hour of route finding and scrambling down a rocky tributary, we reached the bottom of the valley and began heading down stream. Only to be detoured by another waterfall. We crossed Drinkwater Creek and went back into the woods for more bushwhacking. We made it to within 3km of Della Falls, close enough to see the top two stages of the falls as they shot over the side of the cliff face. Boiled some water for a quick dinner of freeze-dried whateverness, and it was back to business. With only 4 hours until sunset, and fog closing in, we needed to move quickly back to base camp. Our first route attempt failed as the cliff became far too steep to climb, so we lost an hour and had to back-track into the thick vegetation. Forcing our way through the brush for 2 hours on little more than a compass bearing and sheer determination, we made it out of the forest and began walking along the creek side towards the snow line. Daylight all but gone now, we ascended the steep hill of hard-packed snow up into the dark thickening fog. Passing fresh bear scat, it was hard to maintain the steady pace necessary to avoid sweating. When we crested the hill and were in sight of our camp, we had used up nearly every ounce of strength, but the sight of home put an extra kick in my step. From then, it was a mad rush to get changed into dry clothes, make a hot meal, and start a fire to, once again, dry the boots. 11km hiked that day through some of the most technical terrain I have had the pleasure of trying.
Day 4. STORM!!! We went nowhere. Huddled in shelters playing crib and drinking rum riding out the storm. Even under the weight of a 10 massive stones Scotts shelter nearly blew away, and my tent was bending in half from the gusts. It was raining pretty hard and we figured every step would have been straight through the snow, after the beating we took the day before it wasn't a tough decision to stay put and rest.
Day 5. Sadly, it was now time to make our way out of the park, and since we made no progress the day before, we had a fair amount of distance to cover today to make it to the car. The weather seemed like it would turn bad at any moment, so we skipped breakfast and just hit the trail. The hike out was 11km long, with 1200m of descent, through softened snowpack, in the fog, taking a different route to avoid some, now much swifter, creeks and waterfalls....no problem really. Stopping for a late breakfast at Bedwell Lake to check out that camp site. It is much the same as Baby Bedwell, with tent platforms scattered around to allow for a bit of privacy between sites. I would prefer the Baby Bedwell site though, as it gets more sun exposure later into the evening. We made it to the car by 4:00pm, and we had JUST enough gas to make it to Goldriver to fill up. After a celebratory dinner of beer and pizza in Campbell river, it was time to end the adventure and head home.
All in all, a complete success.
**Apologies for the coarse language at times... There is no censorship in the forest**
The footage was shot with a Garmin Virb Elite action camera, and a FujiFilm FinePix XP50, on Joby Camera Mounts and was edited on Apple iMovie.
Lessons from a 6.3 Earthquake: Rebekah Parker at TEDxTerryTalk 2012
Rebekah Parker, an Australian-Canadian 5th year Interdisciplinary Studies UBC student, shares her experience of being on exchange in ChristChurch, New Zealand during and after its devastating 6.3 earthquake. From this, she provides commentary on how this natural disaster inspired her to consider the importance of engagement and resiliency in building a strong community.
November 3rd, 2012. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Filmed by Craig Ross: Video edited by David Ng
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Our Place Society in 2009, 'Hope & Belonging' for Homelessness in Victoria BC
Our Place Society recently showcased a video titled 'Hope & Belonging' at their annual gala event, A Taste of Britain, held at Crystal Gardens. The goal of Our Place is to give a hand up to people who are down on their luck and need a place to sleep, a hot lunch, or counselling on how to get off the street. The video showed guests at the fundraiser event what Our Place does so as to build an understanding of issues facing the homeless and describe how the community centre can help. The video was met with praise from board members at Our Place, as well as from guests at the fundraiser who said it gave them an emotional connection to the society.
Our Place is a non-profit society formed by the alliance of the Open Door and The Upper Room in 2006. It offers a sense of belonging to Greater Victoria's most vulnerable citizens. Our Place provides a home, nourishment and hope through living, sharing, learning and worshipping together.
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