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+
MAIN BRANCH
(Across from Royal City Centre)
716 6th Avenue
New Westminster, BC
V3M 2B3
QUEENSBOROUGH BRANCH
(Inside Queensborough Community Centre)
920 Ewen Avenue
New Westminster, BC
V3M 5C8