Cool ‘Hood Champs
The Climate Action Training: Cool ‘Hood Champs program is aimed at increasing awareness of and addressing climate change in neighbourhoods. It was developed by the UBC Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP) and is jointly offered by CALP and the Centre for Community Engaged Learning.
Oppenheimer Park Extreme Heat Pop-up
The UBC Climate Action Mobilizers’ (CAM) consulted with Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) community to better understand how they are impacted by climate change at the Oppenheimer Park Extreme Heat Pop-up event. This event was developed in support of CLEAR and in partnership with Working Gear, UBC Sustainability Hub, and UBC Learning Exchange.
Bakerview: A Place for You – Workshops and Creative Lab
The Climate Action Mobilizers (CAM) team created two interactive, collaborative workshops for youth leaders at the Youth Space of South Surrey/White Rock with the objectives of surfacing the youth group and community’s needs; preparing youth leaders to consult with other community members such as seniors; and to facilitate the co-design of a community-wide creative lab. The culminating event for this workshop series was the implementation of an inclusive, co-designed creative lab that invited the Bakerview Park community to envision park improvements that will meet the needs of diverse park users.
Paddling Together©: Building Decolonization Practices for Mobility Justice and Sustainable Cities
This event hosted by the UBC Climate Action Mobilizers and Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (B.E.S.T.) brought participants together for an experiential workshop facilitated by Kathi Camilleri (Metis/Cree and Irish ancestry). Paddling Together© focused on deepening participants’ understanding of traditional Indigenous values, and decolonizing perspectives around the concept of “community.”
Celebrating IBPOC Voices in Youth Climate Action
Students and community members gathered for a community conversation that amplified and empowered Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC) youth leadership and climate action. Diverse guest speakers shared lived experiences on belonging and intersectionality in relation to climate action and inspired conversations around inclusion.
Beyond Climate ‘Refugees’: Understanding global and local communities displaced by climate change
This online event featured a four-person panel discussion with two speakers who have lived climate displacement experience, and two speakers who specialize in climate displacement community engagement and policy. The event concluded with a UBC Amnesty International letter-writing campaign to increase protection of climate displaced people. This fostered a better understanding of the collective responsibility and supports needed to address challenges related to climate change displacement.
Dorm to Table: Activating Sustainable Food Practices with Microgreens
As part of UBC’s Climate Emergency Week, the UBC Climate Action Mobilizers hosted a microgreen growing workshop for all students! During the workshop, participants learned about local food systems from Duncan Chambers (Owner of City Beet Farm), and received recipe inspiration from Andrea Carlson (Chef, Burdock & Co, Harvest Community Foods).
Raising Marpole Voices
Raising Marpole Voices was co-designed in partnership with the Marpole Neighbourhood House and South Vancouver Neighbourhood House. South Vancouver housed and unhoused members, community organizations, as well as City representatives, and UBC students came together to discuss resilience-building to support diverse community needs during extreme cold weather. Community conversations at the event helped reduce stigma through the sharing of lived experiences, and fostered community connections for future collaborative and inclusive actions in South Vancouver.
Mapping Community Resilience
The Mapping Community Resilience in Vancouver’s Westside Community workshop brought together Vancouver’s Westside community organizations and residents to surface opportunities to make their neighbourhood more resilient and prepared to address some of the climate challenges they face.
For Our Kids Climate Walk
The Climate Action Mobilizers hosted a Climate Walk for preschoolers and elementary school students in collaboration with the Burnaby chapter of For Our Kids, a local climate action group. The goal was to spread awareness about community-based climate action, as well as the causes, impacts, mitigation and adaptation (CIMA) measures related to climate change.
Planning Together: Becoming an 8-80 City by 2030
Planning Together focused on strategizing and planning for Vancouver to be an “8 to 80” city, where communities are built to be accessible for everyone from 8 to 80 years old.
The Climate Action Mobilizers hosted this hybrid event in partnership with the City of Vancouver Seniors Advisory Committee (SAC) and Transportation Advisory Committee (TRAC), bringing together seniors-serving organizations and many others to address the need for sustainable and accessible transportation options.
Earth Fest
In celebration of Earth Day, the Climate Action Mobilizers partnered with CALP to celebrate the individual and community commitments made by past Cool ‘Hood Champs at the Everett-Crowley Park Committee’s Earth Fest event.
Neighbourhood Climate Chats
To kick off the two-year Climate Action Mobilizer (CAM) Project, the CAM team organized and facilitated an inaugural event: Neighbourhood Climate Chats (NCC).
During this convening event, the Climate Action Mobilizers hosted a number of keynote speakers and local climate experts who led table discussions on key domains for climate action in a World Café format. There were two rounds of discussion, and five climate domains that participants could choose from. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the NCC event was offered in a fully hybrid format.