Lesley Evans Ogden

Grizzly bears are back in B.C. Is coexistence possible?

by Lesley Evans Ogden

As bears reclaim territory across the province, communities are being forced to learn how to live alongside them

Colourful illustration of various people. From left to right, there is a Black woman in a colourful dress and necklace holding a megaphone. Next to her is a white man in a brown suit, vest and brown bowtie holding a thermometer. He has grey hair and a grey mustache. Next to him is a brown woman with brown hair tied back, glasses, in a green button-up shirt and white lab coat. She is holding a book that says 1.5 degree celcius report. Next to her is a young girl with brown hair and glasses holding up a sign that says There is No Planet B on top of an image of the earth on fire. Behind the girl is a white man in safety goggles, white hard hat and orange safety vest. Beside him is a white woman hiker in a striped white and pink shirt with a yellow backpack and blue jeans. She is pointing at something and talking to a brown man with a beard. He has an orange and green trucker hat on and in a grey shirt and orange shorts. In the background are money bills floating around, an airplane flying in the sky, a white bird, green leaves, an ant, flowers.On the bottom of the image is an oil refinery, an orange dump truck, a polar bear floating on an small ice glacier, a cow on top of a floating house in a flood, and several cars parked on a street. There are also wind turbines and chimneys emitting grey smoke.

We’re halfway through a 12-year deadline to keep Earth habitable. Can we get there?

by Lesley Evans Ogden

The groundbreaking 1.5 report warned that a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 would result in disastrous consequences. We're way

An illustration of a brown-skinned woman with brown curly hair walking. She is holding a megaphone, wearing a teal and peach striped shirt with a yellow, green, pink and mint-coloured scarf. Her pants are teal. She is walking and below her legs is a river with three kinds of fish floating, as well as a half-submerged house with teal-coloured windows. A small black and white cow is on top of the brown roof. IN the background is a multi-coloured sky (mint, peach, grey and dark brown).

Using Indigenous wisdom to save the Martuwarra River

by Lesley Evans Ogden

Investing in collective wisdom, along with science and technology, is the key to responding to climate chaos, says Indigenous leader