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Climate Friendly Homes Tour

Visit Climate Friendly Homes in New Westminster to see firsthand what people are doing to make their homes more comfortable and climate friendly.

What is a Climate Friendly Home? A Climate Friendly Home is an energy-efficient home that has been built or retrofit to reduce the energy demand and carbon emissions of the building. Whether it reaches higher steps of the BC Energy and Zero Carbon Step Codes, uses the most efficient heating, cooling and hot water systems or has an improved building envelope with added insulation and highly efficient windows, a Climate Friendly Home can have lots of features that make the home more sustainable, comfortable to live in, cheaper to operate, and more!

Check out homes in New Westminster and see which homes you would like to visit on the tour.

You may also like to check out the Sustainable Home Info Sessions which is a special event during the Climate Friendly Homes Tour.

Please note, there is no event AT the New Westminster Public Library around the Climate Friendly Homes Tour or the Sustainable Home Information Sessions. Follow the links to register, find the addresses, and tour the homes out in the community. This event is being promoted as part of the NWPL’s Earth Week programming.

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Learn to Meditate

Join us for a series of 6 meditation sessions at the library. Learn to reconnect with yourself and recharge your mind’s battery with this open-eyed meditation practice. The practice of meditation builds resilience, emotional stability and helps restore inner peace and natural state of happiness. This open and welcoming session is suitable for all.

 

Ages 14+, Drop-In

 

Instructor: Manisha Sharma of Sustainable Healthy Communities Association (SHCA)

SHCA is a registered non-profit society based in New Westminster with 3 members actively involved in promoting, teaching, and supporting meditation as well as related educational programs that support overall health and wellness. Over the years, thousands of people have benefited from practicing our meditation as a lifestyle. Many of these people who considered themselves to be hopeless cases with emotional instability, mental and/or physical illness, and relationship crisis had transformed their lives and others around them permanently as a result of being empowered with the knowledge from the foundation meditation course.

They have also offered these meditation program sessions at New Westminster School District Wellness Centre since September 2022, being a great success and having a positive impact on students involved across the New Westminster School District.

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Loom Knitting

Loom knitting uses a loom with pegs to create textiles similar to conventional knitting. Learn how to loom-knit a mug cozy to keep your hot drinks warm! We will be using a small round loom with acrylic yarn and will learn the basic stitches including cast on, knit, purl and bind off.

Loom and yarn will be provided.

Ages 6+, those under age 10 require an adult to be present.

 

This event is at the same time as our monthly knit and crochet drop-in. If you’d like to just come and work on your own project, that’s also fine!

 

**if event is full, please email askus@nwpl.ca to be placed on the waitlist**

Family Building Free Play (All Ages)

Drop in for some creative free play with Lego and KEVA Planks! Drop-in.

A parent must accompany children under the age of 8.

Family Literacy Week Bingo (all ages)

Drop by the library any time during Family Literacy Week (January 26-February 2) and pick up a literacy activity bingo sheet to work on at home. Bring back your sheet with at least one ‘Bingo’ by February 9 and be entered to win a prize!

After-School Drop-In (5-12 years)

Enjoy board games and do other fun activities with library staff. Children age 8 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Drop-in.