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Project Drawdown offers an array of rigorously reviewed climate solutions that we can adopt today, alongside learning modules and handy info graphics to help us understand and take action.
The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people -- especially those most often unheard.
Youth Climate Corps British Columbia (YCCBC) is a climate action campaign and program that builds on youth leadership to foster climate resilience and a livable, low-carbon future while paying young people a living wage.
Organizations
Grounded in their mission to increase awareness and access to education about intersectional environmentalism and drive support toward grassroots environmental justice efforts, Intersectional Environmentalist builds programs and partnerships that seek to empower communities that are far too often overlooked in the environmental sector.
The David Suzuki Foundation is a national, bilingual non-profit organization. Through evidence-based research, education and policy analysis, they work to conserve and protect the natural environment, and help create a sustainable Canada.
The Climate Justice Organizing HUB is a support structure designed around the needs of grassroots social movement organizers in so-called Canada that respects organizers’ knowledge regarding their own challenges and priorities.
Books, Films, Podcasts
How to Change Everything offers young readers a comprehensive look at the state of the climate today and how we got here — and how they can help shape what happens next.
Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power.
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer argues that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
Campaigns
Join Greenpeace in calling on the Canadian federal government to hold Big Oil accountable by making them pay into a new Climate Recovery Fund.
The Youth Climate Corps campaign is fighting for a transformative federal program that would provide two-year fully paid job training and placement opportunities for anyone 35 and under.
Friends of the Earth has launched 4 engaging campaigns focused on protecting biodiversity, plastic use, & governmental involvement in climate change.
Education & Trainings
Roots & Shoots teaches young people (for free!) how to design projects that tackle the intersection of biodiversity loss (animals), environmental inequity (people), and climate change (the environment).
Active Hope Foundations Training is a free online course designed to strengthen your ability to make a difference in the world.
Power Smart for Schools includes all sorts of engaging classroom resources, including lesson plans and activities for all ages, thoughtfully tailored to the BC curriculum (but suitable for all classrooms!).
Media & Climate News
Future Earth is a media platform and climate club that provides easy access, information, and tools to individuals seeking meaningful engagement with the climate crisis.
Canada's National Observer (CNO) helps Canadians make sense of the changing climate. CNO covers politics, public health, disinformation, corporate overreach, business and justice.
The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
