JULIA KIDDER

Writer | The Georgia Straight, Joint Op-Ed (2021)

“We now know that just 90 entities—mostly oil, gas, and coal companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell—are responsible, through their operations and products, for two-thirds of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We can break that down to particular companies: Chevron is responsible for 3.1 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and therefore, we argue, should pay for 3.1 percent of climate change costs. A lawsuit by local governments to claim a portion of climate costs from fossil fuel companies is realistic and possible.”

Blog | West Coast Environmental Law - HOW HOT IS TOO HOT (2021)

“Although the residents of places like Lytton, Lillooet and Ashcroft are accustomed to severe heat, that doesn’t make our experience with climate-driven heat waves or wildfires any less severe. These are low-income rural communities living on unceded, unserved territories. They are towns with many Indigenous residents and elders, living on land that has been repeatedly parcelled up by expansionist-Canada; its railways and forestry, mining and mills – and by its colonial land-reserve system that has left both literal and figurative scars across the lands.”

Blog | West Coast Environmental Law - Watered Down Promises Do More Harm Than Good (2021)

A look into the Canadian drinking water crisis facing First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, and how missed deadlines fail to recognize Indigenous rights. From West Coast Environmental Law staff lawyer, Eugene Kung and communications & engagement specialist, Julia Kidder.

Profile | Hobo Magazine Issue #21 - Jane Goodall (2019)

Jane Goodall and her thirty-four Institutes around the world have perfected a model for tangible change in the fight against species loss.

Her sense of ethics is her greatest technique, seducing us into her network, creating an army of ecological enthusiasts, wielding a fierce arsenal of hope. Jane Goodall empowers us by giving us the equipment to make changes that are so urgently needed to protect the planet we love.

Blog | West Coast Environmental Law - At the river’s edge (2020)

Each spring the snowpack in the Upper Fraser and Cariboo mountains melts down the Fraser, Bonaparte and North and South Thompson Rivers, and they swell and flush as early green sweeps the canyon. Like most communities in the Interior, Ashcroft relies on rivers to breathe life into the valley. The Bonaparte River runs through our backyard, just 200 metres from where it enters into the much larger Thompson River, so if you’re here you interact with the river every day.

Interview | Movement by NM Magazine - Valley Buds Flower Farm (2018)

Got to interview the best of the very best Michelle Pezel and Alana Paterson on their shared farm, Valley Buds Flower Farm, community-building and having fun to stay sane.

Essay & photography | ORB Exchange - The Truth That Lies Behind our Fragmented Realities (2020)

Toolkits for change.

Essay & photography | Movement by NM Magazine - Lo Fi Dance Theory, a dance company without borders (2018)

Profiled my favourite dance company Lo Fi Dance Theory of which I’m fortunate to work as the Director of Special Projects for.

Essay & Photography | Goodee Magazine (2019)

Better choices do exist. They exist at every level. From the grassroots communities springing into action to address inequality, to entrepreneurs that develop economic and pricing models that make room for new value systems. networked community planning can help to address complex societal challenges, and we can use design thinking and apply to any scale.

Essay | Good Sport magazine - Teens making tracks (2015)

Essay to accompany Alana Paterson’s cross country ski photos in the Norwegian winter.

Interview | Hobo Magazine - Paul Nicklen (2017)

Paul’s background has given him a photographic toolkit that very few could ever hope to manœuvre, and he can do this so genuinely because he is truly at home in what few untamed and remote parts of the world still exist. Now, his photo expeditions with Sea Legacy, the organization which he founded, puts visual storytelling at the heart of a new mobilization by communicators and conservationists who are coming together in defence of the wild.

Essay | Hobo Magazine - Everyman’s land (2016)

Svalbard, Longyearbyen and the quest for humanity in arctic remoteness.