education

The Pacific Leaders Loan Forgiveness program aims to recruit young workers into the public service by offering to pay off one third of their BC Student loan each year they work, up to the full amount for three years service. 

Basically, it comes out in the wash as a taxable benefit but with the amount of student debt these days, I'd say that was quite a perk of employment!

More info.

For the past few months I have been participating in web-delivered training seminars (webinars) by Creative Techs out of Seattle. Primarily focused on design, these courses began by covering Adobe courses such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign and so on but they have started to expand with courses on digital photography and workshops on retouching or fixing problem design files.

The CRD (Capital Regional District) offers free courses in Permaculture, Organic Food Gardening and Organic Gardening and Lawn Care. Register online or download the forms from the CRD Site.

For more information: workshop schedule, workshop descriptions.

Leo Babauta, author of The Power of Less, has published a companion e-book, Thriving on Less, which is available for download, free. The website also offers links to audio podcasts and a video:

 

Kristin Roach over at Craft Leftovers has a great tutorial on how to deconstruct a sweater and recycle the yarn for other projects. She built the tutorial after much trial and error and it includes some sage advice:

Art, Music and Theatre don't have be costly to be enjoyable. Here are some frugal options:

 

The hit New Zealand TV show Wa$ted is going to be running on W Network in Canada starting this month. The show's primary focus is eco-sensitive living, but along the way there will be money-saving tips too. Like it? Hate it? Tell me what you think!