HANDOUT MATERIALS - SESSION 1: ENERGY 

May 7th; 10am to 11:15 am

Webinar Slides

• Tara Mahoney’s Presentation slides

Books

1. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

2. A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

3. The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress (Open Access)

4. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

5. Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions

Reports

1. Climate Emergency Action Plan Summary (City of Vancouver)

2. COMMUNITIES FOR CLIMATE HOPE: Opportunities to Support the Climate Emergency through Vancouver’s Recreation System https://www.facebook.com/C4CH.YVR/

3. Building Bridges for Climate Action: Engagement Strategies for Millennials (David Suzuki Foundation)

4. Together We Rise: Youth-led Democratic Innovation in Canada (Apathy is Boring)

5. What do Canadians Really Think About Climate Change? (Climate Access)

6. Motivating communities to retrofit their homes: The potential of thermal imaging in BC (Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions)

7. Climate Visuals: Seven principles for visual climate change communication (Climate Outreach)

News Articles

1. Transformers: Harnessing 'citizen power' for that other emergency (Vancouver Sun)

2. How the climate crisis can help solve Canada’s housing emergency (Now Toronto)

3. Liberal leadership candidate Michael Coteau promising free public transit to help curb climate change (Toronto Star)

Organizations, Projects and Campaigns 

1. Green Bloc Neighbourhoods (EverGreen)

2. Cool ‘Hood Champs (Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning) 

3. Co-op Power 

4. BC’s Local Power Campaign (Dogwood BC)

5. MAP: Climate Initiatives and Policies in Metro Vancouver

6. Collective Climate Mobilization Maps (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation - SPEC and the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning - CALP).

7. Climate Visuals: The world's only evidence-based and impact focused climate photography resource

8. Opportunity Projects Program (Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions)
   
   PICS is currently calling for proposals for innovative proposals under the PICS Opportunity Projects Program (OPPs) which supports BC-based bold and impactful climate change solutions research.Successful projects are awarded up to $180,000 over three years. Applications close August 4, 2021, and projects start in 2022. For more information, visit the PICS Opportunity Projects Program page, read the 2021 Competition Guide for Applicants, or contact picsopp@uvic.ca

3. What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? (BBC) 

4. Car Free Cities (Wikipedia)

Organizations, Projects and Campaigns

1. Car Free Day (Vancouver)

2. HUB Cycling: Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (Vancouver)

3. Old Spokes Cycling (Calgary)

4. Everyone Rides (Hamilton)

5. Cyclo Nord Sud (Montreal)

6. Bike Host (CultureLink Settlement and Community Services in Toronto)

7. Scarborough Cycles (Scarborough)

8. Let’s Ride Campaign (BC)

9. The Wrench (Winnipeg)

Participant shared resources from the chat

• Room to Move: Approaches to COVID-19 street reallocations in four Canadian cities:  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6c8ee50c32e043a0b635426c366aac0c

• ‘Slow Streets’ Disrupted City Planning. What Comes Next?https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/the-swift-disruptive-rise-of-slow-streets

• Non-profit organization for equipping kids with bicycles and recreational equipment:http://www.recforkids.com/

• The Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program (CARIP):https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/local-governments/grants-transfers/climate-action-revenue-incentive-program-carip

• Plug In BC: Electric vehicle outreach and education: https://pluginbc.ca/outreach/

• Electric car pledge campaign: https://www.electricpledge.org/

• Recycling organic waste: https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp

Books

• Buy Nothing, Get Everything, and Discover the Joy of Sharing More, Spending Less, and Living Generously

• The Day We Stopped Shopping

Resources shared by participants in the chat

• UnBuilders for deconstructing buildings to recycle materials: https://unbuilders.com/

• Article about UnBuilders: https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/12/11/Eco-Unbuilding-Demolished-Homes-Reused/

• Micro-scale digestion involving the production of biogas on a small scale within farms or small communities: https://www.biogasworld.com/news/future-small-scale-anaerobic-digestion/

• Example of a backyard biogas product: https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-2/

• Waste Free Fraser Valley is a youth-led digital guide and inspirational short film that empowers youth aged 16-30 in the Fraser Valley to take action on waste: https://www.wastefreefraservalley.com/

• Report from PICS that addresses building & construction wastehttps://pics.uvic.ca/sites/default/files/PICS_Embodied_Carbon_Report_May-2021_FIN.pdf?mc_cid=f01775b097&mc_eid=aae6cd43e4

• New policy being discussed at the City of Victoria to require deconstruction and recycling of buildings: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/new-victoria-bylaw-requires-old-buildings-to-be-salvaged-instead-of-demolished-to-reduce-waste-1.5428168

• Article about single use plastics: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/world/single-use-plastics-scli-intl/index.html

• A neighbourhood-based project for gifting and reusing items: https://trashnothing.com/beta/

• Food recovery and redistribution: https://questoutreach.org/

• Food recovery and redistribution on SFU Burnaby Campus:https://www.embarksustainability.org/programs/food-rescue/

• Company that makes clothes out of recycled textiles: https://anianmfg.com/

• Article about which fabrics are sustainable: https://www.treehugger.com/do-you-know-which-fabrics-are-most-sustainable-4858778

• Circular fashion brands: https://goodonyou.eco/circular-fashion-brands/

• Fashion brand ratings: https://directory.remake.world/#/

News Articles

• Reducing Urban Heat Island effect in Toronto a matter of social justice, experts say

• The dangers of eco-gentrification: what's the best way to make a city greener?

• These incredible 10 urban food forests are turning cities into food producing oases

• How Vancouver is protecting itself from future flooding — with plants

• Vancouver park in Hastings-Sunrise to get a new concept in gardening: Food forest

• Atlanta creates the nation's largest free food forest with hopes of addressing food insecurity

• James Boothroyd and Stephen Sheppard: Transformers: Harnessing 'citizen power' for that other emergency

Organizations, Projects, and Campaigns

• URBAN FOOD FOREST AT BROWNS MILL (Atlanta)

• 12,000 rain gardens in Seattle/Puget Sound

• North Shore Rain Garden Project

• HOW-TO GUIDE: GREEN YOUR LANEWAY

• Green Bloc Neighborhoods

• Cool ‘Hood Champs

Resources shared by participants in the chat

• Municipalities and firms that contract re urban trees:http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/regional-planning/conserving-connecting/urban-forests/Pages/default.aspx

• A great example of natural asset management from Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast - https://gibsons.ca/sustainability/natural-assets/

• Some links to resources for linking GI and climate action, including the Citizens Coolkit: https://calp2016.sites.olt.ubc.ca/home/urban-forestry-toolkit/

• Kamloops Food Policy Council - https://kamloopsfoodpolicycouncil.com

• Public focused green gardening tool that connects gardening and landscaping to climate action http://www.growgreenguide.ca/

• Victoria Rain Garden program:https://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/residents/water-sewer-stormwater/stormwater/rainwater_rewards_program.html

• National Infrastructure Assessment:https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/nia-eni/index-eng.html

• “Eco-cement” company: https://www.nexii.com/

• Food forest coming to a Hastings-sunrise park:https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-park-in-hastings-sunrise-to-get-a-new-concept-in-gardening-food-forest