Wondering how to get good nutrition into picky eaters? Plans for cooking varied and balanced meals for one? Tips for adhering to a special diet for a new diagnosis? Join registered dietician, Whitney Hussein for a special Ask-a-Dietician session at the library. Bring your questions and get expert advice.
This session will be held live in person and streamed live via Zoom. All registrants will receive the Zoom link. Unfortunately the session will not be recorded.
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.
The Sustainable Home Info Sessions is a project of the New Westminster Climate Action Hub (NWCAH) and is an affiliated special event in the Climate Friendly Homes Tour. At homes in Glenbrook North, Queens Park, Victory Massey Heights and Brow of the Hill, sessions will be provided by local experts on topics ranging from increasing biodiversity, stormwater management, building electrification, how to stay safe in significant heat events, and how the City of New Westminster can support retrofits. There will be something for everyone as information for all housing types including apartments and condos, and solutions suitable for owners and tenants will be provided.
Registration (free) is required for Sustainable Home Info Sessions. Click here (and scroll down). Tickets are limited so register now.
For those who want to bike between these sites, secure bike storage will be provided. Additionally, HUB Cycling New West is leading a bike tour of the homes, and you can register for their (free) event here.
Sustainable Home Info Sessions are being held in collaboration with the City of New Westminster and under the umbrella of the BC Climate Friendly Homes Tour. It is being supported by the Cariboo Heights Forest Preservation Society, HUB Cycling, Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and ReGenerateBC.
Please note, there is no event AT the New Westminster Public Library around the Sustainable Home Information Sessions or the Climate Friendly Homes Tour. 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.
Free support from someone with lived experience to find:
No registration necessary.
Drop-in Wednesdays at the library from 11-2.
The Climate Action Team from the City of New Westminster will give an overview of climate action work at the City, including actions being taken to make our Buildings and Transportation greener, and suggestions for what residents can do. Staff will also give participants information on the exciting development of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Plan and how you can be involved.
This is part of Earth Week at the Library.
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.
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 our third screening we will watch The Ants and the Grasshopper (2021). Anita Chitaya is a farmer in Malawi who has brought progress to her village by transforming the way they think and work together. But when the effects of climate change show indisputable signs of irreversible damage to her land and community, Anita travels to America to meet with farmers, activists, climate skeptics, and legislators to persuade them to save her home by first saving the planet.
Ages 12+
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 our second screening we will watch Feeding Tomorrow (2024). Up against a broken food system suffering from ecosystem destruction, climate change, health epidemics, and inequality, a brave group of visionary leaders in agriculture, healthcare and education work to build a more just, regenerative, and resilient system in their local communities.
Ages 12+
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 Karen Crosby from Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
For our first screening we will watch an episode of Nova: Chasing Carbon Zero (2023). The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissions in half by 2030. Is it possible? And what kind of technology would it take? Meet scientists and engineers who are convinced we can achieve carbon zero in time to avoid the biggest impacts of climate change.
Ages 12+
(Across from Royal City Centre)
716 6th Avenue
New Westminster, BC, V3M 2B3
Phone: 604-527-4660
Email: askus@nwpl.ca
(Queensborough Community Centre)
920 Ewen Avenue
New Westminster, B.C., V3M 5C8
Phone: 604-636-4450
Email: askus@nwpl.ca