Tag Archive for: Environment

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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+

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Climate Films: I am the Magpie River

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.

The Magpie River, located in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, is one of the last great rivers to flow freely in this part of the world. Nestled in a spectacular mountainous landscape, this mighty river flows through an unspoiled boreal forest, inhabited by caribou, wolves and bears. In March 2021, it became the first river in North America to obtain legal personhood, joining pioneering countries such as Bolivia and New Zealand, which have also recognized the rights of nature to rivers and forests, granting them protections comparable to humans.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

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Climate Films: Food Synergy

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

Join us for our new 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. For this special presentation, the filmmaker, Vivian Davidson, will be present for the film and discussion!

In a world where food waste is the third largest contributor of CO2 globally and is sadly all too often ignored, innovative people will show the economic, social, and environmental benefits of what can happen when it is addressed. Food Synergy confronts this issue head-on, offering an inspiring and solutions-driven approach to food waste by spotlighting practical, often simple strategies that can be applied across the entire food supply chain.

Set primarily in British Columbia, Canada, Food Synergy demonstrates that while food loss is a global issue, the innovative solutions shared can inspire worldwide change. By presenting hopeful, real-life stories, the film empowers viewers to embrace more sustainable practices and redefine their relationship with food.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

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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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Low-Carbon Vacations in BC

Want to plan a great low-carbon, climate-friendly vacation for your family or friends but don’t know where to start? How about a bike holiday on the Gulf Islands? Join Garey Carlson from HUB New West for a fun and practical information session on planning your next holiday by bike!

This event is part of our Earth Week programming.

Presented in collaboration with HUB Cycling New Westminster Chapter