Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan are travelling the 1,172km of Enbridge's Proposed Pipeline to capture the ground level perspective on the pipeline's potential impact

Vancouver filmmaker walking, biking from Bruderheim to Kitimat

Filmmaker Frank Wolf and friend Todd McGowan are tracing the path of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from north of Edmonton to Kitimat, B.C. by bike and on foot.

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Eric Swanson, Dogwood Initiative: "A single spill can devastate lives, economies, ecosystems and cultures."

Tanker traffic in an oil-spill-sensitive world

Should the informal moratorium on oil tankers off British Columbia’s northern shores be made mandatory? Dogwood's Eric Swanson says yes.

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Local voices join the campaign to keep them green.

Protecting Vancouver Island

What make's Vancouver Island's special to you? Our local natural spaces are an essential part of our community. Local voices join the campaign to keep them green.

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political cooperation is the best way to protect our coast

Political Intricacies of the No Tankers Campaign

The sheer number of No Tankers supporters has “focused the mind” of the federal opposition parties. To move forward, we need our politicians to work together, and we need you to write letters to the editor

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Democracy

Dogwood Initiative's mission is to invigorate democracy— to help people control the future of their communities, economy, and environment.

Dogwood Initiative believes a just, equitable and sustainable society is possible in BC. We are uniting non-traditional allies to create and implement common ground solutions.

We promote citizen engagement and stand up to anti-democratic initiatives like privatization schemes.

We advocate for transparent and open government, and regularly request government documents under Access to Information legislation, which we post in a separate section on this website.

In addition to our forest and energy campaigns, Dogwood Initiative promotes efforts to reform campaign finance and voting, which we think are essential to clean up BC's broken political system.

Currently, big money from corporations and unions (which cannot vote) have undue influence over parties and policy. BC has archaic electoral finance laws that allow non-voters to give big donations, sometime anonymously.

The first-past-the-post voting system skews elections results allowing governments without widespread popular support to win big majorities.