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You can use this Saanich Carbon Calculator to find out: https://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/community/sustainable-saanich/climate-change/carbon-fund-calculator.html

In the years since the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty Canadian Banks have provided almost $700 billion to companies that are active in fossil fuels. If you bank with RBC, Scotiabank, TD Canada Trust, BMO, or CIBC, your money is contributing to the climate crisis by helping coal, oil and gas companies. For the data, seeContinue reading “Your Money”

Whenever we use a gasoline-powered car, truck, RV, boat or airplane, we add fuel to the fire of the climate crisis. And yet we can’t just stop our lives. So what can we do? You can urge your government leaders to make it safe and easy to get around by bus, bike, e-scooter or foot, to provideContinue reading “The Way We Travel”

Here are some letters you can write to ask for more climate action: A Letter to your landlord, asking if they can retrofit your buildinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXcj6dBoihYtistKAFnHdWbIu0MDX81zzpQ_53rXUhs/edit A Letter to a Grocery Store, asking the owner/manager if they can produce less waste https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-iKX4sCqm2SFG_h5gyiXtmBd7bnFhJN4hFO9-kQJBQ/edit A Letter to your Bank, telling them why you are leaving, because they continueContinue reading “Climate Action Letters”

This also available as a 2-page PDF: A Suggested Timetable 7pm is just a suggested start time, to show the use of 90 minutes 7:05 Welcome Overview of our Community Climate Circles purpose. Mostly discussion, share useful information. 7:10 Social Circle You (the Connector) go first, then invite each person to share. One minute each,Continue reading “How to Run a Community Climate Circle”

Our goal is to support our friends, neighbours or workmates as they seek ways to reduce their climate pollution by inviting them to a Community Climate Circle. But how do you start if you haven’t met your neighbours, and if they live behind a closed door, or at the end of a long rural driveway?Continue reading “Inviting Your Friends, Neighbours or Workmates”

The Community Climate Connectors is a project of the Nanaimo Climate Action Hub. We are a team of people who live in the Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Port Alberni area of Vancouver Island. Guy Dauncey, author, Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts; co-founder of the West Coast Climate Action Network. Heather Baitz, Clinical Psychologist. ClinicalContinue reading “About Us”

TRANSPORTATION QUESTIONS What is the point of buying an EV when if everyone does this, there won’t be enough power to go around?  A: There is no indication that there will be any shortage of power in BC, even if every vehicle goes electric. What do I do if I can’t afford an EV?  A:Continue reading “Awkward Questions”

If you hold a family meeting, you could consider each idea in the chart below, and mark the year when you think you could make it happen. To download a PDF copy of the chart, click here (and see below for another great check-list, from Squamish) 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Your Travel More cyclingContinue reading “Climate and Nature Friendly by 2025?”

Here is a printable PDF One-sider: The oil and gas we use to heat our buildings produces almost a third of Nanaimo’s climate pollution. If your home uses a gas or oil furnace, how can you keep warm in a way that will not harm nature or our children’s future? Make your home more efficientContinue reading “Our Homes”