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Description: Do you really know where your food comes from? Learn about BC's food system and how we produce, process, distribute, and acquire local food, following the story of produce, grains, dairy and salmon. Thousands of people across this province make their living in BC's food system, and in these videos, you're going to meet a few of them.

Subject: Applied Skills; Home Economics; Cross-Curricular; Careers; Health and PE

Keywords: BC agriculture; sustainable agriculture; local food; farming; food system

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Description: This text is illustrated with updated graphs, photos and cites the work of hundreds of scientists and organizations such as the IPCC, NASA, Environment Canada, Royal Society of Canada, and Natural Resources Canada, to name a few. My resource is an update on the science of climate change, extreme weather, protecting nature and biodiversity, advancing renewable energy, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions with frequent reference to Canada and in particular British Columbia. Global impacts, mitigation and adaptation are explained throughout the text. My ten years of research cites reputable journals, national and international organizations and the media. Research covers climate change from the Arctic to the Antarctic, projection of climate change, how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, El Nino/La Nina, extreme weather, renewables, the oil sands and transport of bitumen, and Canada's contribution at the UN COP meetings. This book is meant as a resource for our youths to make wise decisions about their future. **Revised edition uploaded September 2019.

Subject: Applied Skills; Information Technology; Cross-Curricular; Aboriginal Education; Social Justice; Research; Curriculum; Science; Biology; Earth Science; Social Studies; Geography; Law; Revised Curriculum; Environmental Science

Keywords: projecting climate change; natural variabilty; BC climate initiatives; Kyoto to Paris; Oil pipelines; Global warming; ocean circulation; Deniers of climate change; renewables; hydrogen and electric cars; extreme weather; pollution