Graphic for Walk for the Kitties, featuring Pippin a black cat. Handwritten Text reads "Save Pippins Peepers"

VOKRA WALK FOR THE KITTIES 2025 LIVEDRAW!

Hi everyone! Since 2020 I’ve been acting as a volunteer foster caregiver for cats through an organization called VOKRA (The Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association). https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/team/team-jam-save-pippins-peepers Every year VOKRA does a fundraising event called “Walk for the Kitties” where they work on raising their operating costs for the following year. This year my foster cat Pippin needed a complex surgery to save her eye from a growth, and it cost around $3,000. I’m hoping to raise enough money to help the foster organization cover the cost of that surgery! To do this I created this Neko-Atsume parody cat cafe based on our fine city of Vancouver, and I’m offering to add your cat (or pet of your choice!) to the picture for a donation of just $10+CAD! Click here to donate! All the funds go to a very good cause, keeping the organization going so they can help all the cats in this city. They’re a no-kill shelter and cats like Pippin aren’t turned away because of the complexity of their case. The walk is this SUNDAY Sept 7th and I will be doing a livestream after the walk to add all the cats and finish the wallpaper! So if …

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2025 Spring Gander poster by Emiliano

See you at the Spring Gander!

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Hey everyone, if you happen to be near New Westminster this May (near Vancouver), why not drop by this little festival! I’ll have books and postcards and lots of interesting samples of things. It should be a great time! Wildfires Bookshop, free entry 🙂 Organized by GeeseGoose Coop

Zero Waste

Buying Canadian🍁? Try Zero Waste!

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If you’re trying to keep your dollars local, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes it’s a bit hard to keep track of all the things we use and where they all come from. While food is the obvious place to start, the next place you might look is health and hygiene. Unfortunately, most household brands are owned by a small handful of companies. But they’re not the only option! If you’re changing your brands and habits anyway, why not try some zero waste products? The Zero Waste movement seeks to provide for people’s household needs while using as little disposable (especially plastic) packaging as possible. Usually they do this by asking that you bring your own containers (anything clean will do! But they also sell containers of all kinds) and selling the product itself in bulk. When I stopped in at the Refill Stop the other day for deodorant (which is very conveniently walking distance from the New West skytrain), I asked the owner which of their products were Canadian. They told me it would be faster to list off what was not Canadian! Buying local has always been a priority for them, which is not too much of a surprise …

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A flowery green illustration with the words "what is Solarpunk"?

What is Solarpunk?

The next comic I’m working on is in the “solarpunk” genre, but what is solarpunk? I created a microsite – solarpunk.lol to collect and organize my thoughts and research as this genre is being developed. To me ‘Solarpunk’ is a genre of fiction that explores the simple question: “What if this all works out?” While apocalyptic fiction preoccupies itself with all the ways our society can be destroyed and what comes after, Solarpunk acknowledges that all of those terrible things may come to pass and we can get through it. It is by its nature, in my opinion, an optimistic genre that should focus on primarily optimistic stories. Mostly because that is the type of story we desperately need at this moment in time. ‘Solarpunk’ as an ethos can be divided into three main parts. Love Love, in the deepest broadest sense, is a major driving force of this movement. Love of our planet and love of each other, making decisions based on compassion as the guiding star. Sustainable Flourishing The term “Sustainable Flourishing” originates with the book Sustainability by Design by John Ehrenfeld. The underlying idea is that it’s not good enough to make technology that is less harmful. …

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