Environment

HOT NITE – City invites EV owners to take part in Electric Avenue feature

July 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

Do you own an electric vehicle? The City is inviting local electric vehicle owners to be part of Electric Avenue — a special feature of the 31st annual Hot Nite in the City [Continue]

TRU – Ground broken on landmark low-carbon district energy system

August 30, 2024 // 2 Comments

Thompson Rivers University (TRU) took a significant step forward in its journey to achieve zero carbon emissions with a groundbreaking ceremony for its Low-Carbon District [Continue]

SUZUKI – Industries in denial: From burning cigarettes to a burning planet

June 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

NOT LONG AGO, smoking was promoted as healthy — even glamourous. Cigarette companies used doctors and movie and TV stars to sell their products. People smoked everywhere [Continue]

RECYCLING – At last, there’s a place for those old books and encyclopedias

November 17, 2023 // 1 Comment

The City of Kamloops has launched a book recycling program. The initiative provides residents with two dedicated spots to drop off their old books and textbooks, which cannot [Continue]

SUZUKI – For climate’s sake, we must do more to save the peat

June 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

BURNING COAL, oil and gas is causing the world to heat at an unnaturally rapid rate. Destroying forests, wetlands, grasslands and marine ecosystems, which act as “carbon [Continue]

SUZUKI – Coal power should be relegated to the ash heap of history

July 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

DURING AND AFTER his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great again. He also claimed climate change was a hoax, so it’s no surprise that he’d [Continue]