Nova Scotia — It had to start somewhere, and they started in the woods. In an effort to facilitate RBC employees rekindling their relationships with the land, Michael Polak, Co-Chair of the Royal Eagles, brought a group of 20 RBC employees to Windhorse Farms, an old growth forest owned by community partner Ulnooweg Education Centre. The outing was part of the Sacred Seeds initiative, which focuses on land-based learning as a component of a climate literacy strategy at RBC. The participants sat around a firepit, under a 500-year-old white pine, learning traditional teachings about the earth. …That time spent in nature helps people see the impact people have on the earth and the role they can play in protecting it. “The reason why all this ancient knowledge and wisdom exists in our communities is because our ancestors used to go and do this activity all the time,” he observes.