You are invited to a special Q&A session on how legal recognition of the right to a healthy environment can better protect the people and places we love. Read more about The right to a healthy environment
From the Calgary Climate Hub website:
June is Indigenous Awareness Month, and our guest will be Chantal Stormsong Chagnon of Cree8, a local Indigenous organization that aims to create bridges between people, culture and within yourself. Read more about A Climate of Change: Chantal Stormsong Chagnon
From the Calgary Climate Hub website:
This month our guest will be Adora Nwofor of Black Lives Matter YYC. Read more about A Climate of Change: Adora Nwofor, Black Lives Matter YYC
In the midst of COVID-19 and the climate crisis, communities across North America are rising up in solidarity with Black Lives Matter to confront racist police violence and white supremacy. In the last few weeks alone in Canada, police have claimed the lives of Black and Indigenous people including Chantel Moore, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Eishia Hudson, Jason Collins, Kevin Andrews, and D'Andre Campbell.
Read more about Why a Just Recovery must be anti-racist: Mass online teach-in
This event is one of many Green New Deal town halls being held in communities across the country in May 2019. The conversation is being led from the ground up through town halls bringing together people from all walks of life to discuss our vision for a new economy -- one that cuts global warming pollution, implements the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, creates millions of green jobs, and makes sure no one gets left behind.. The input from these town halls will be used to inform a vision for a Green New Deal for all. Read more about Green New Deal Town Hall
From World Water Day YEG:
Join us for an exciting evening to meet and network with inspired water collaborators, learn about local water initiatives in the province of Alberta, and listen to forward-thinking solutions on freshwater issues. Water is essential for life, and is the single most important resource on the planet. World Water Day YEG will feature: Read more about World Water Day YEG 2019
From Next Up Calgary:
Next Up Calgary is launching a new series of workshops on November 6, 7 & 10. They are replacing our 7 month long weekly leadership program. The new workshop series will cover the same core concepts, content and skills as our original program. We'll have deeper connections to communities, active facilitation and use this to support intentional solidarity with Calgary's progressive communities and leaders. Over the next 8 months we'll be holding 6 workshops, each will be a stand alone 3 day series, and all will have a specified theme. All the workshops are open to those between 18 and 32. Read more about Next Up Calgary Fall Workshop Series: Leading Together
Due to last-minute scheduling issues, this event has been cancelled. If you have already registered for this event, you will receive a refund.
This event is part of the Alberta Environmental Network's 2017 Fall Meetings
Explore global issues and celebrate cultural diversity during International Week: For a Better World 2016! Read more about International Week 2016: For a Better World
The King’s University invites you to its Winter 2016 Interdisciplinary Studies Conference
CHANGE IS IN THE AIR – in more ways than one. On one hand, the climate is changing. Overwhelming scientific consensus confirms the reality of climate change and warns of the threat it poses to the planet and its human and non-human inhabitants. These warnings have prompted urgent appeals, not simply for changes in action and policy, but also deeper changes in how we think about and imagine our relationship to the creation itself. But change is in the air in other ways too – as vulnerable communities respond to the challenge of global warming, as our reliance on the carbon economy is being questioned, and as political leaders try to hammer out a global climate agreement, change is inevitable. Read more about Change is in the Air: from Climate Chaos to Climate Justice
