How to Spend Your Climate Action Dividend?

[P.C.]

Not sure Michel.....but I'm sure it's just a buffer before they slap us upside the head with another tax.

[Van]

Yes, I think it is something like you pay 1000% tax and get a .01% climate action dividend.

Those may not be the exact percentages...but something like that.

[P.C.]

Sounds about right Van 

[Lil Me]

What if everyone bought $100 worth of Gas-X?  Would that improve air quality in the province?
 

[Sportsdude]

It comes out sooner or later right? (gas)
I don't think that would solve the problem.
 

[P.C.]

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[Lil Me]

Hmmmm.  That explains a few things about the new Finance Minister Colin Hansen.




 

[Michel]

P.C. wrote:

Not sure Michel.....but I'm sure it's just a buffer before they slap us upside the head with another tax.

LOL That's for sure, I was just wondering the technicality.

Lil Me you post ugly pictures. LOL Is this from an horror movie ? ah ah !

[Lise]

P.C. wrote:

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I LOVE IT!!! LOL. 

[P.C.]

lol Lise.  Poor (ahem) little guy.  He must be very uncomfortable......and worse, I bet the mice laugh at him.

[Sportsdude]

I've started to memorize the bike routes of Vancouver. Gosh it would be so awesome if they had a bike path from UBC to downtown if it only wasn't for the Point Grey neighbourhood. lol

[Lil Me]

We're still deciding what to do with our collective $400.


 

[Michel]

I wonder if I will receive that money.

[Lil Me]

Here are some suggestions courtesy of the Eco News on Vancouver Island.
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In Your Home

 

1. An  ecoENERGY home assessment, that  will give you a list of energy upgrades that will make your home more efficient,  and access to various grants from ecoENERGY  and LiveSmartBC. ($150) 
2. 30  compact fluorescent light bulbs. (Phillips are the best.) ($100) 
3. 3 new LED light bulbs. ($108) 
4. Programmable thermostats for your 2 or 3 of your most  commonly used heating zones. ($100) 
5. $100 of weather-stripping, caulking, and window film, to reduce  heat-leaks in your home. 
6. A  Kill-A-Watt meter that will show you how much energy  each of your appliances is using. ($30) 
7. A  Smart Strip Power Bar that you can use to control your stand-by power. ($30) 
8. A  low flow showerhead, that will save water and power.  ($12) 
9. A  20-foot retractable clothesline for your backyard.  ($15) 
10. An  Eco-Fan for your woodstove, that will spread the heat  around. ($150)

 

Travelling

 

1. A  month’s bus pass. ($42 to $99) 
2. A  used bicycle to enjoy the summer ($100), or a bike a tune up ($50). 
3. New  bike lights, gear, and a new helmet, for safer riding. ($100) 
4. A  cycling commuting skills course,  to make you a safer cyclist. ($100) 
5. Put  it towards buying an electric bike. ($700 to $1600) 
6. For  your car, pool your money to buy a Scan Gauge, that will give you a  real-time fuel consumption read-out which you can use to train yourself to do  “eco-driving”, and use 10%-15%  less fuel, saving up to $250 a year. ($160) 
7. A  pack of 4 LED tire pressure indicator  lights which you can use to use up to 3.3% less fuel by keeping your  tires properly inflated, saving up to $50 a year. ($34.95) 
8. Membership in the Victoria Car Share Cooperative  or Vancouver’s Cooperative Auto-Network. ($400  - $500) 
9. A  good camera/microphone for your computer, so that you can substitute web  conferencing instead of travelling. 
10. A  new pair of running shoes, to encourage you to hit the trails. The more fit you  are, the further you can cycle and walk.

 

In Your Kitchen & Garden

 

1. A  good vegetarian or vegan cookbook. 
2. $100 of local organic food for a celebratory organic feast for your  friends. 
3. $100 of seeds, tools, and compost that you can use to start an organic  garden, using simple Lasagna Gardening. 
4. $100 of organic food delivered by Small Potatoes Urban Delivery,  grown as locally as possible. 
5. $100 worth of organic food to accompany a free a Vegetarian Starter Kit.

 

For the Next Climate Emergency

 

1. A  St. John Ambulance Emergency Ready  Kit, to help you survive the climate change related storms and power  outages ($59.95) and a Ready Meal Kit ($44.95) 
2. A  Freeplay Solar Wind-up Radio ($59) and LED Wind-up Flashlight ($32).

 

Carbon Reducing Offsets and Gifts

 

1. Spend it on good carbon offsets. $100 donated to the Solar  Electric Light Fund will offset 10 tonnes of CO2 by helping villagers  in Nigeria to use solar lighting, instead of kerosene. $100 donated to Quest Outreach will ensure that $1200 worth of wasted  food is used to feed people, putting its embodied carbon to good use in  someone’s stomach and stopping it from releasing methane in a landfill. 
2. Give it to an environmental organization that is working to tackle global  warming or save BC’s forests, such as the David Suzuki Foundation, the BC Sustainable Energy Association, the Western Canada Wilderness  Committee, the Sierra Club of BC, or The Land Conservancy. 
3. Give it to one of the 50 “Green Your Campbell Cash”  carbon-saving projects that are being proposed on The Tyee’s website. 

 

[Sportsdude]

"Starting in late June 2008, the dividend will be mailed automatically to every eligible adult who has filed either a 2006 or 2007 personal income tax return for British Columbia. Parents whose children are registered for the Canada Child Tax Benefit will also receive a $100 payment for each child.
           
Once the tax return is assessed, the dividend will be mailed automatically to the mailing address provided on the tax return.
           
Even if you or your spouse have little or no income to declare, the sooner each of you file your individual tax returns, the sooner you will each receive your one-time $100 dividend."
The definition of resident for the Climate Action Dividend is the same as resident for income tax purposes. An individual is generally considered to be resident where the individual, in the settled routine of their life, regularly, normally or customarily lives. The following factors, among others, would normally be considered in determining residency status: the location of the individual’s home, spouse, and dependants.

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LOL all my friends are getting this, hilarious. If I only was able to land a job during the school year on campus. lol Wait, according to the rules I had 'residency in BC' by Dec. 2007. So who knows. lol

http://www.smartchoicesbc.ca/EN/how__to_get_your_$100/