Whether you’re planning your next trip or are about to embark on it, have you considered the impact your trip has on the communities you visit? Your conscious lifestyle doesn’t have to go on holiday…

Meet one of AWARE’s founding members, supporter, and donor: Cathy Jewett. Cathy has lived in Whistler for nearly fifty years, is heavily involved in community organizations, and is currently a Councilor at the Resort Municipality of Whistler…

Claire Ruddy joined AWARE as a Board Director 15 years ago as a volunteer before becoming the organizations first Executive Director in 2013. Looking back over the past decade, seemingly small steps have added up…

Meet AWARE donor and Vice President, John Rasmussen. What is your favourite place in Whistler?Off piste to the left of Seventh Heaven! I’m a snowboarder and that’s the best place for laps after a fresh…

Explore the forests surrounding Whistler from the comfort of your home with our online story map (below). Go on a virtual tour as you click map layers on and off, or zoom in to the locations you are interested…

At the May 16th Council meeting Mayor and Council voted to adopt the Zero Carbon Step Code in a move that will ensure the greenhouse gas emissions of new buildings are accounted for. By implementing…

Was one of your New Year’s resolutions to do some more reading? You want to start reducing your carbon footprint and learn more about the current environmental state of the world. Or maybe you want…

On Wednesday, October 5th, 2022, AWARE and Whistler Community Services Society hosted an election All Candidates Meeting on the topic of “Conservation, Climate and Community Wellbeing”. At the session Council Candidates responded to questions provided…

2021 continued to rock the boat! As unprecedented challenges continued to unfold, or turned out tenacious and unwilling to disappear, priorities and operations had to be reevaluated across the community. For AWARE, that meant revisiting…