About this Sunshine Coast site

My name is Laurie McConnell, and I’m Your 1st-Person Guide to the Sunshine Coast, for over 15 years! Join me as I explore the Sunshine Coast, Powell River and surrounding islands and waterways in. From a full business directory, to blog (here), to video channel, to curated & trending social media page, to mobile app, [...]

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Bigpacific.com Sunshine Coast Magazine
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604-885-5913

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Business Development/Sustainability

An Ode to Trees, Timber, and Temerity

An Ode to Trees, Timber, and Temerity

Photo Haley McConnell, story by Editor/Publisher Laurie McConnell I’m pretty pro community economic development and love the idea of our own small town community forest company sustainably logging suitable timber for value-added jobs & products in our community. But sooner or later we’re going to have to pay the piper, environmentally-speaking. At some point, the [...]

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The Future of Elphinstone

The Future of Elphinstone

by Laurie McConnell Editor/Publisher, Bigpacific.com UPDATE: If you live on the Sunshine Coast, visit here, work here or are involved in similar concerns in your own community – regardless of whether you are an environmentalist/community activist, or a forestry sector worker – this issue should concern you. Please make every effort to learn about it [...]

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Garbage in… art out?

I received this great communique from our very own and very innovative Gibsons Recycling Depot (see story in Just Business People, date) about a funky new program they’ve got going on to encourage recycling and reuse of discarded materials: JUNE 10, Gibsons Sunshine Coast Gibsons Recycling Depot, 1018 Venture Way Gibsons, is currently looking for [...]

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One AGM you don’t want to miss: Tourism

  by Laurie McConnell, Editor/Publisher So I received the invitation for the 2nd AGM for Sunshine Coast Tourism, and wouldn’t you know it, I am going to be away!  The one meeting I don’t want to miss. However, if your business is at all dependent upon or connected to the tourism industry here on the [...]

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