Tag Archive for: Environment

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Mayor’s Youth Climate Leadership Team

Join together with Mayor Patrick Johnstone and members of the Youth Climate Leadership Team to learn about this innovative process, the project the team activated, and how the city is supporting their efforts. There will be a chance to ask questions and find out next steps.

 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

This event is part of BC Library Association’s Climate Action Week, a province-wide initiative to highlight the ways communities and libraries are taking action in the climate crisis. Check out all the climate action events at the New Westminster Public Library from November 1-7! nwpl.ca/climate

Plot to Plate: Small-Space Food Gardening

Join Aiden Silzer-Hooker to learn about maximizing yield in your small space garden plot through natural methods. Aiden is an expert in food permaculture in urban areas, using everything from intercropping, companion planting, green manures and composts, to vertical growing. He focuses on increasing biodiversity, food security and creating a more sustainable food supply chain.

 

Aiden’s company, Front Yard Farms, aims to create a more sustainable food supply chain, while increasing food security, food sovereignty and biodiversity, while decreasing food waste and carbon footprints. Front Yard Farms uses only the best organic growing methods to bring you nutritious, delicious produce, year round.

Aiden Silzer-Hooker, is a Kwantlen Polytechnic University alumni, who graduated with his Bachelor of Horticulture Science, with a Major in Urban Ecosystems, a Diploma in Horticulture Technology, and he is also an ISA Certified Arborist. During his time at KPU, Aiden started asking the tough questions about how we get our food here in British Columbia, and Canada as a whole. Aiden decided to change the narrative surrounding food – where it comes from, how it’s produced, and how to create a more equitable food system for everyone.

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The Climate Cycle: Bicycles, History and the Road Ahead

The history of the bicycle is tied up in climate change – invented during a climate crisis, relied on in periods of austerity, and a key technology in a carbon-lite future, the bike is a great symbol of climate adaptation. Join Gordon Hobbis of Cap’s Bicycle Shop And DandyHorse Bicycle Society to learn about the history of bikes, their use in combating climate change, and potential future technologies.

This event is part of BC Library Association’s Climate Action Week, a province-wide initiative to highlight the ways communities and libraries are taking action in the climate crisis. Check out all the climate action events at the New Westminster Public Library from November 1-7! nwpl.ca/climate

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Joy At the End of the World: A Writing Workshop

The climate crisis is becoming more urgent every year, but it’s so big and scary that we often struggle with where to start. In this hands-on writing session, we’ll make space for our feelings and work toward achievable individual and collective ideas for healing ourselves and our planet. With a mix of small group discussion, journalling, meditation, and resources from the Climate Wayfinding program, come discover that joy is possible as we engage our imaginations to create a better, fairer, sustainable world for everyone to live in.

 

Please bring a notebook and pen.

 

Julianne Harvey is an author, innovator, and nurturer in South Surrey, BC, the traditional unceded territories of the Semiahmoo First Nation and the Coast Salish Peoples. She’s the author of six books and wrote film reviews for a weekly newspaper for four years. Her work has appeared in pulp Magazine, WestWord, Freelance, and UPPERCASE Magazine.

Julianne holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, a BA in Creative Writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and a certificate in Counselling Skills from Vancouver Community College.

Julianne runs Ruby Finch Books and speaks at large conferences to thousands of writers and teachers on writing, resilience, risk, and creative practices. Her newest book, a post-apocalyptic climate novel called Post Civ, is available now. She loves to wrestle through the messy areas of life with those who long to dive below the surface chatter.

 

This event is part of BC Library Association’s Climate Action Week, a province-wide initiative to highlight the ways communities and libraries are taking action in the climate crisis. Check out all the climate action events at the New Westminster Public Library from November 1-7! nwpl.ca/climate

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Climate Films: Weathering the Future

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

As extreme weather intensifies and also affects more and more people, how can we adapt? This episode of NOVA explores traditional knowledge and new solutions that can help us cope.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

This event is part of BC Library Association’s Climate Action Week, a province-wide initiative to highlight the ways communities and libraries are taking action in the climate crisis. Check out all the climate action events at the New Westminster Public Library from November 1-7! nwpl.ca/climate

Gardening: Garlic

Grow your best garlic ever! Join us to learn garlic secrets and best practices and how you can cultivate this culinary essential in your garden space. Gail Felton will discuss all the stages of garlic growth, different cultivars, how to increase garlic yields and what pitfalls to avoid. Bring your questions!

 

This session will take place in person at the New Westminster Public Library and online via Zoom. All registered participants will receive the Zoom link.

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Climate Films: Trouble in the Headwaters

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

Communities around BC will be hosting a series of film screenings and panel discussions about the root causes of flooding, landslides and drought in BC. The film, Trouble in the Headwaters, is a hard-hitting 25-minute documentary by filmmaker Dan Pierce, which examines the disastrous 2018 flood event in Grand Forks, BC and the hydrological connection to clear-cut logging in the Kettle River Watershed.

Join us in New Westminster to watch the film, and engage in a discussion panel with the filmmaker, Daniel Pierce, and forest hydrologist, Dr. Younes Alila.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

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Climate Films: Eating for Tomorrow

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

Eating for Tomorrow is a powerful climate documentary that exposes the truth about our global food system — and offers hope for a better future.

Narrated by Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, this eye-opening film explores how our dietary choices contribute to climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental collapse — and what we can do to reverse course before it’s too late.

This award-winning documentary is visually stunning, emotionally moving, and filled with practical solutions that can help heal the planet, protect animals, and secure a future for humanity.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

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Gardening: Backyard Butterflies

Learn how you can attract butterflies and moths to your garden or patio! These special visitors play a crucial role in pollination and as a food source for birds. Neill McCallum will show us which plants butterflies and moths love and how to keep your garden safe for them. He’ll also talk about the lifecycle of these winged friends and special needs they have at all stages. Neill is a butterfly ranger with the Butterflyway Project which seeks to build safe habitat for butterflies in our urban environments. Neill is also a science educator, so feel free to bring teens and kids along – a very family friendly topic!

 

This session will be live in person and streamed live via Zoom. All registrants will receive the Zoom link. Unfortunately it will not be recorded.

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Climate Films: Juice

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! On the second Wednesday of each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

While electricity availability doesn’t guarantee wealth, its absence almost always means poverty. Juice takes viewers to Beirut, Reykjavik, Kolkata, San Juan, Manhattan, and Boulder to tell the human story of electricity and to explain why power equals power. The defining inequality in the world today is the disparity between the electricity rich and the electricity poor. In fact, there are more than 3 billion people on the planet today who are using less electricity than what’s used by an average American refrigerator. Juice shows how electricity explains everything from women’s rights and climate change to Bitcoin mining and indoor marijuana production. Juice explains who has electricity, who’s getting it, and how developing countries all over the world are working to bring their people out of the dark and into the light.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+