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Affordable homes are now more energy efficient
May 2, 2024 • 4 minutes

Affordable homes are now more energy efficient

Columbia Basin Trust supports energy retrofits in 23 buildings in 11 communities (Columbia Basin) – Hundreds of residents will find their homes more energy efficient as organizations throughout the Columbia […]

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Stepping up fight against invasive mussels
April 30, 2024 • 3 minutes

Stepping up fight against invasive mussels

Columbia Basin Trust and Columbia Power Corporation join forces with the Province, BC Hydro, Fortis BC and conservation organizations to increase efforts to protect local waterways and keep invasive mussels […]

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Affordable, accessible homes coming for seniors in Elkford
April 30, 2024 • 2 minutes

Affordable, accessible homes coming for seniors in Elkford

Seniors and people living with disabilities in Elkford will soon have access to 25 affordable rental homes with construction underway on a new development. The four-storey building at 214 Alpine […]

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Local action, basin impact
April 30, 2024 • 3 minutes

Local action, basin impact

This Earth Month, the Trust asked residents of the Basin to send in their tips for energy efficiency, food waste, cutting out single-use plastics and building wildfire resilience. Here's what they said...

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New Member Joins Columbia Basin Trust Board
April 25, 2024 • 2 minutes

New Member Joins Columbia Basin Trust Board

The Trust welcomes representative from Kaslo Suzan Hewat is joining the Board of Directors of Columbia Basin Trust, becoming part of the 12-member Board which helps ensure that the organization […]

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Building wildfire resilience 
April 25, 2024 • 6 minutes

Building wildfire resilience 

Communities throughout the Columbia Basin do amazing work advancing the well-being of their spaces and people in the face of climate change. Here are a few great examples of what communities have achieved. 

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Curtailing food waste while taking a bite out of climate change 
April 17, 2024 • 5 minutes

Curtailing food waste while taking a bite out of climate change 

Many organizations have implemented projects to reduce food waste and divert it from the landfill, check out some of these stories.

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Getting energized – smartly
April 10, 2024 • 4 minutes

Getting energized – smartly

We need healthy food to eat and affordable housing to live in. We need services that help us live our best lives. At the same time, we need to consider how we can reduce our contributions to climate change and adapt to the shifts to come.

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Tending campsites and trails while strengthening their futures
April 5, 2024 • 3 minutes

Tending campsites and trails while strengthening their futures

Over five years, the program has created 66 jobs in the Basin, covering four recreation districts, and overseeing 557 recreation sites and hundreds of kilometers of trail.

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Barks & Recreation: learning new tricks for success
March 26, 2024 • 4 minutes

Barks & Recreation: learning new tricks for success

Barks and Recreation has provided the Trail area with pet services for more than a decade. Their recent completion of the Trust's RevUp program has them poised to continue growing as a small business.

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Beef business booms in Jaffray
March 19, 2024 • 4 minutes

Beef business booms in Jaffray

Jaffray's Bolen Livestock brings local food to the South Country and with support from the Trust's Food Producer Wage Subsidy, the family business is growing in new directions.

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Communities focus on wildfire resiliency and readiness
March 13, 2024 • 3 minutes

Communities focus on wildfire resiliency and readiness

Columbia Basin Trust supports 43 projects to create plans, buy equipment and provide training Wildfires can sweep in at any moment. To make sure that they’re prepared, small, rural communities […]

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Kathleen Hart

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