2013
VIDEO: YesBC Youth Climate Action Summit/Off the Grid Festival 2013
September 20, 2012
Documentary of Year 3 of YesBC's signature youth-driven event "Off the Grid Festival" and Greater Victoria Youth Climate Action Summit.
2012
VIDEO: YesBC Youth Climate Action Summit/Off the Grid Festival 2012
September 20, 2012
Documentary of Year 2 of YesBC's signature youth-driven event "Off the Grid Festival" and Greater Victoria Youth Climate Action Summit.
Fort Rodd Music Fest Powered by Sun, People
May 24, 2012 - Times Colonist
Off the Grid Music Festival featuring performances by Mindil Beach Markets, The Archers, Fir Cone, AdHoc and Ironslide
Off the Grid Festival Promises to be Off the Hook
May 22, 2012 - Goldstream News Gazette
Human and Solar to Power Up the Sound Stage at this Youth-Driven Event at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site
May 4, 2012 - CTV Vancouver Island
A CTV news story on the cc350 Victoria bike relay.
2011
VIDEO: Victoria Youth Connect with Youth in Durban, South Africa
December 20, 2011 - CTV Vancouver Island News
High school students in Victoria, BC had a rare opportunity to speak with students in Durban, South Africa via Skype. They talked about climate change and the UN climate conference taking place in Durban. They even managed to talk about rugby, beaches and other topics of interest to teenagers!
Young Victoria Delegates at Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa
December 20, 2011 - Times Colonist, Victoria BC
September 27, 2011 - Huffington Post
Victoria, BC teenagers visit the Tarsands on their summer vacation to see for themselves what's going on up there.
September 19, 2011 - CTV VI
Victoria scientists and climate change activists took part in a world-wide phenomenon as part of Al Gore's latest project to draw attention to the climate crisis. It was part of a full day event called "24 Hours of Reality" in which experts in every time zone broadcast the reality of the climate crisis.
VIDEO: Celebrating Environmental Stewardship Among Youth
April 21, 2011 - /A\ News Vancouver Island
/A\ News Story covering YesBC's Off the Grid Festival and Youth Climate Action Summit
Off the Grid Music & Art Festival Event
April 15, 2011 - Focus Magazine
YesBC has organized the first Greater Victoria Youth Climate Action Summit and Off the Grid Music and Art Festival by closely drawing on the insights and opinions of regional senior secondary school students.
Green Party’s Elizabeth May endorses national food security program
March 16, 2011 - Saanich News
Students from the global studies class at Claremont have been learning to farm through Growing-Young-Farmers, a program launched by organic farming advocate Dave Friend and aimed at teaching school-aged kids how to produce their own food. They met with Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May on the mountain Wednesday, in an effort to make food security a priority for all levels of government.
February 28, 2011 - Goldstream News Gazette
Part youth summit and part environmental party, Greater Victoria students will flood into Langford for an “off the grid” sustainability conference and music festival in April.
2010
UBC Res Sustainability Conference
January 19, 2010 - UBYSSEY
"Refresh, Rethink, Renew" conference held at Marine Drive residences at UBC
2009
VIDEO: Climate Change Issues Resonate with Youth
December 17, 2009 - /A\ News Vancouver Island
Claremont High School students plant trees and stand in solidarity with Youth in Copenhagen at United Nations Climate Change Conference.
