Ghost Bear
Ghost Bear
creating fun, visual stories that inspire a love for nature.
Select a membership level
VIP
$5
/ monthFor the price of just one cup of weak, overpriced coffee a week, you can support nature literacy!
- Be the first to know! Receive EXCLUSIVE access to our semi-regular irregular updates and be the very first to know about our very latest disasters: Fires! Floods! Dead bears! Oh my!
- Be part of our community! Join us for an EXCLUSIVE quarterly Patreon community video chat via Facebook live. It’s your chance to ask us anything. Anything! Like why are pika so creepy (and what the heck is a pika?)?! Why does Simon always wear the same shirt?! How are the Blue Jays going to manage their payroll and stay competitive and improve the bullpen?!
- Free photo! Each month we’ll share with you one EXCLUSIVE, never-before-seen nature image from our collection for your personal use. Stare at a bear photo on your desktop in winter and wish it was spring! Print it and hang it on your wall and spare a thought for those who only decorate their walls with Post-It notes!
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more photos to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 10% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Instagram Secret Stories! Whoever said that secrets don’t make friends has never seen our Instagram secret stories. These near-daily stories are an EXCLUSIVE look at Simon’s weirdest habits: His deathly fear of sandwiches! His conversations with his computer! His extremely weird (yet oddly sweet) relationship with a parking lot-dwelling goose! These stories are always filmed secretly, to enjoy Simon at his absolute weirdest, maximizing your personal enjoyment. Also: Jill shows you how she endures life with Simon! Also: You gain a new follower; we will follow you back!
MAJOR LEAGUER
$10
/ monthFor the price of a movie date, you can support nature literacy! (Do people still go to movies in this post-pandemic world? Do people still date? Actually, how much do movies cost? Not $10 a ticket?! What?! How much does milk cost?! WHAT?!)
- So many perks! Every single VIP benefit. Every. Single. One.
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 15% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Nature Labs Podcast Series! EXCLUSIVE access to our monthly Nature Labs Podcast Series: We sit down with everyone from former prime ministers to top chefs – and everyone in between – to hear provocative ideas and divergent perspectives on how to better balance the needs of people and nature.
SUPERSTAR
Limited (92 remaining)
$25
/ monthFor the price of one – likely cold, likely terrible – pizza delivery a month, you can support nature literacy!
- So many perks! Every single VIP and Major Leaguer benefit. Every. Single. One.
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 20% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Animal Stories! Short, modern, quirky, fun stories that, once per month, introduce you to your natural neighbourhood and ask the questions you’ve been dying to have answered: Surprising facts you don’t know about grizzly bears! (They like to mate with a view!) Why lynx exist! (Turns out we don’t really know why!) The greatest R/raptor of all time? (Not the red tailed hawk and not Vince Carter!) Is there an evolutionary purpose to that dangly piece of skin-fur hanging below the neck of a moose? (No spoilers here!)
TITAN
Limited (49 remaining)
$50
/ monthFor the price of one socially distanced dinner out per month, you can support nature literacy!
- So many perks! Every single VIP and Major Leaguer and Superstar benefit. Every. Single. One.
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 50% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Nature Labs Mini Docs! Starting in 2022, see our provocative, monthly mini-docs that are way, way hotter than anything you’ll find at Hot Docs. These stories take you into the wild – and into the wild minds of decision makers – to ask the hard questions we that must be asked: Can we heal our democratic divides and protect biodiversity? What happens when conservation and social justice collide? Should we – or can we - save every species?
- Limited edition fine art print! Receive one 16x24” fine art print from our LIMITED EDITION gallery (your choice!) OR a stunning Paula J. Lay spotted owl watercolour print from her Vanishing: Our Endangered Animals series. The print will be mailed each year (shipping’s on us!), at the end of your 12-month subscription.
HERO
Limited (20 remaining)
$100
/ monthFor less than the cost of one meal for one person at Atelier, the famed restaurant of Canada’s Most Innovative Chef (Nature Labs interviewee!) Marc Lepine, you can support nature literacy! (What a deal!)
- So many perks! Every single VIP and Major Leaguer and Superstar and Titan benefit. Every. Single. One.
- Discount! Maybe you have a lot of walls. Like a lot. And maybe Post-It notes aren’t your jam. Maybe you like photos – our photos! – on your walls. Lots of them. Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE at cost discount on all purchases from our store. Say what?! That’s right! You can buy anything from our store – even limited edition prints – at cost. Those walls are going to look amazing. (Send us an email with any of your selections!).
- TWO limited edition fine art print! Receive one 16x24” fine art print from our LIMITED EDITION gallery - your choice! We pay the printing cost! AND, in the words of every telemarketer ever: That’s not all! You also receive a stunning Paula J. Lay spotted owl watercolour print from her Vanishing: Our Endangered Animals series. The prints will be mailed each year, at the end of your 12-month subscription. Did we mention shipping’s on us?! That’s right, only the best for our heroes.
- Sneak Peak! Be the very first – THE VERY FIRST – to see the project that caused us to go grey: Nature Labs!
- Support a school! You choose one school to be the very first to test and use Nature Labs in the classroom!
- Brag about being a hero! That’s right! We’ll tell everyone you’re our hero and make sure every teacher and every student using Nature Labs knows you’re the hero that made this tool possible. Go ahead. Brag. You’ve earned it, hero!
SUPERHERO
$250
/ monthYou receive every single benefit a Hero deserves. After all, you’re not just a Hero, you’re also a VIP and Major Leaguer and Superstar and Titan. But you’re more than a Hero.You’re a Superhero. Why? Because you – and you alone – are our magical source of inspiration and awe, single-handedly helping us overcome our personally-assigned four horsemen of the apocalypse (fire, flood, concussion, dead animal characters). Without you, we’re mere mortals. But with you? Anything and everything is possible. Like Nature Labs! Way to go, Superhero!!
Demi God
$500
/ monthYou receive every single benefit a Superhero deserves. After all, you’re not just a superhero, you’re also a VIP and Major Leaguer and Superstar and Titan and an all round hero. But you’re more than a superhero.You don’t need to be faster than a speeding bullet or spin spider web out of your fingers (ewwwww) or be some half-assed version of a much cooler, actual wolverine. Why? Because you’re above it all. Literally. Remember those cute general apocalypses we were assigned by our personally-assigned four horsemen of the apocalypse (fire, flood, concussion, dead animal characters)? No? We don’t either! You eradicated them! Not only that, thanks to you, we’re building Nature Labs faster (maybe with help!) and we’re eating breakfast! Like actual food that’s not a meal bar! And we’re sleeping! Like more than four hours a night! Wow. WOW! So impressive. Breakfast?! Sleep?! That’s talent.
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VIP
$5
/ monthFor the price of just one cup of weak, overpriced coffee a week, you can support nature literacy!
- Be the first to know! Receive EXCLUSIVE access to our semi-regular irregular updates and be the very first to know about our very latest disasters: Fires! Floods! Dead bears! Oh my!
- Be part of our community! Join us for an EXCLUSIVE quarterly Patreon community video chat via Facebook live. It’s your chance to ask us anything. Anything! Like why are pika so creepy (and what the heck is a pika?)?! Why does Simon always wear the same shirt?! How are the Blue Jays going to manage their payroll and stay competitive and improve the bullpen?!
- Free photo! Each month we’ll share with you one EXCLUSIVE, never-before-seen nature image from our collection for your personal use. Stare at a bear photo on your desktop in winter and wish it was spring! Print it and hang it on your wall and spare a thought for those who only decorate their walls with Post-It notes!
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more photos to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 10% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Instagram Secret Stories! Whoever said that secrets don’t make friends has never seen our Instagram secret stories. These near-daily stories are an EXCLUSIVE look at Simon’s weirdest habits: His deathly fear of sandwiches! His conversations with his computer! His extremely weird (yet oddly sweet) relationship with a parking lot-dwelling goose! These stories are always filmed secretly, to enjoy Simon at his absolute weirdest, maximizing your personal enjoyment. Also: Jill shows you how she endures life with Simon! Also: You gain a new follower; we will follow you back!
MAJOR LEAGUER
$10
/ monthFor the price of a movie date, you can support nature literacy! (Do people still go to movies in this post-pandemic world? Do people still date? Actually, how much do movies cost? Not $10 a ticket?! What?! How much does milk cost?! WHAT?!)
- So many perks! Every single VIP benefit. Every. Single. One.
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 15% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Nature Labs Podcast Series! EXCLUSIVE access to our monthly Nature Labs Podcast Series: We sit down with everyone from former prime ministers to top chefs – and everyone in between – to hear provocative ideas and divergent perspectives on how to better balance the needs of people and nature.
SUPERSTAR
Limited (92 remaining)
$25
/ monthFor the price of one – likely cold, likely terrible – pizza delivery a month, you can support nature literacy!
- So many perks! Every single VIP and Major Leaguer benefit. Every. Single. One.
- Discount! Maybe one photo isn’t enough and you need more to decorate your walls RIGHT NOW! Fear not, Patreoner: you get an EXCLUSIVE 20% discount on all purchases from our store, with all proceeds supporting Nature Labs.
- Animal Stories! Short, modern, quirky, fun stories that, once per month, introduce you to your natural neighbourhood and ask the questions you’ve been dying to have answered: Surprising facts you don’t know about grizzly bears! (They like to mate with a view!) Why lynx exist! (Turns out we don’t really know why!) The greatest R/raptor of all time? (Not the red tailed hawk and not Vince Carter!) Is there an evolutionary purpose to that dangly piece of skin-fur hanging below the neck of a moose? (No spoilers here!)
About Ghost Bear
Goals
29 of 50 patrons
We will document the journey of one incredible grizzly bear from his home in the headwaters of the iconic Fraser River down valley to the shadow of the tallest peak in Canada's Rocky Mountains, Mt. Robson. In the doing, we hope to have the content that will create the narrative backbone for Nature Labs, creating a powerful metaphor for the work ahead to safeguard our biodiversity.
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