Environmental groups protest and tell the population that we are exhausting our natural resources. We have to find alternative before it’s too late. Leaving our next generation with a bold Earth is the least thing we want to see.

“This is really for the well-being of the future generation. It’s for the kid that are not born yet. We are consuming their future right now and the way we are treating the earth is destroying the source, the water and everything. ” Lizbeth Espejo from the Save Soil said this is the most impotent massage people have to know.

It would be selfish if people only think about the current generation and consume in advance in terms of the World’s resources. Although scientists are working hard to develop renewable resources, we cannot forget the fact there would still be a huge part of the non-renewable resources around the world such as our soil. Soil is the foundation for all the crops and keeping the fertile soil for many more years will be the way to make sure people in the future would have enough food to live on.

Canadians are so used to driving everywhere. With the introduction of the electric vehicles, problems may seem diminishing but still they are there. Should we try to move the people from driving to public transit?

“The active transportation people want to power themselves are at least use electric bikes or scooters.”Green Party’s Wally Kunz is talking about the active transportation idea for Burnaby.

Getting people out of their vehicle or moving them all to translink are both not a good idea. It may be the time to empower people to move around by electric bikes which echoes with the government plan of building the Lower Mainland a bike city.

Save Soil has been working on the issue of soil extinction for decades with Sadhguru as the leader. Over 16 million volunteers worldwide were supported by his foundation. He launched various ecological initiatives such as the Rally for Rivers which is a project to revitalise India’s rivers.

“He did a 30,000 kilometres motorcycle ride in a hundred days. He visited 27 countries to bring the soil extinction awareness.He has spoken up at the UN.” Maguin Fernandez from Save Soil talks more on the organization’s founder.

Save Soil hopes to remind the public about the current situation of the soil around the world. Agriculture is still running around the world but the soil quality is seen to be dropping and deteriorating. Nations have to step up and recover that before it is too late.

The ways to improve the efficiency of the roads here in Burnaby are important as people are seeing more traffic jams when they are going out. Re-planning the city would not be easy or fast as it involves too many different stakeholders.  What would be the better way to do though? By votes and elections maybe?

“When the narrow buses stop at a bus stop, the bikes and everything can still pass them safely. Traffic will go quickly because the intersection is set up so that one time there is only pedestrian can go diagonally.” Commented by Wally Kunz from the Green Party.

Green Party is working hard on letting the residents know about their re-planning. They have been setting up booths in the Farmers’ Market or cultural events over the weekend across Burnaby. They understand the change would take some time and it’s better to start as soon as possible. The longer it waits, the tougher it will be to change people’s habit and mindset.

Save Soil is runs by the group of activists with the goal to bring the alarming threat of Soil Extinction into the spotlight.  They truly believe the nutritious value of the soil directly and adversely affect the food nutritious profile. Actions must be taken before human exhaust the soil and became irreversible.

“Back in 1920s, you only have to take one orange a day and you can get all the nutrition. Now you have to eat 8 oranges instead to get the same amount of nutrition.” Jas Sindu from the group shown us this surprised figure.

Save Soil is promoting to the public about soil extinction and actions should be taken before it’s too late. Human activity should be supportive to the nature and all life on planet. The world seems working the other way round though.

With the coming of the 2022 municipal election, new ideas for city planning are now back for the news headlines. It would be more efficient for people to stay in their neighborhood for fun and work. Jobs are concentrated in Downtown or the CBD in Vancouver. What would the policymaker do in order to get the people stay in the neighborhood while making their living every day?

“We gotta make certain that we encourage, especially the employment in different area. So the other thing we can do is to make certain that we have good transit to get to places where there is work” said Wally Kunz from the Green Party.

Great efforts have to be spent on city re-planning if the policymakers want to make the city self-sufficient. People are so get used to working in Downtown or Vancouver. Relocating the business focus back in Burnaby would probably be a difficult task ahead.

Salish children are raised in the heart of the culture. They witness the culture and bring that forward to many years ahead. This song, Get Up and Dance, talks about the spirit of that. Parents also work very hard to make sure the children would understand the culture and teachings which are the heritage for the tribe.

Salish brings their young children to perform as well and that’s how they preserve the culture