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Click to download the PDF. Community Partner name: Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton Conversation date: February 4, 2022 1:00pm-3:00pm EST 1. Introduction A. Summary This community conversation revealed that climate change and income insecurity are significantly impacting Hamilton’s neighbourhoods and infrastructure. Recurrent conversations within the breakout groups highlighted how severe weather events and economic inequality are disproportionately harming low-income and impoverished residents. There… Read More »Community Summary Report: Hamilton

Click to download the PDF. Community Partner name: Crane Institute for Sustainability Conversation date: Wednesday February 2, 2022; key informant interviews between December 2021 and January 2022. 1. Introduction A. Summary 100-150 words that highlight the key takeaways from the Community Summary Report. Were there any issues, concerns, solutions or ideas that were talked about in multiple breakout groups and/or were strong themes in discussion of the full group? Did… Read More »Community Summary Report: Sault Ste. Marie

Click to download the PDF. February 2022 Background  In December 2021 Community Futures North Central Development engaged Frank Growth Solutions Inc. to facilitate community conversations based on The Green Resilience Project guidelines and create this report.  Frank Growth Solutions Inc. would like to acknowledge Michelle Pruder and her team at Community Futures North Central Development as well as Hannah Muhajarine and Mitchell Beer from The Green Resilience Project for support… Read More »Community Summary Report: Churchill / Wabowden / Thompson

Click to download the PDF. Community Partner name: Flin Flon Neighbourhood Revitalization Corporation Conversation date: Saturday, January 29, 2022 1. Introduction A. Summary A common theme was that many people had personal experience of climate change, almost all negative. Among the most commonly reported concerns were increased impacts from forest fires, both in the form of smoke blowing in from fires near and far, and being directly affected by wildfires… Read More »Community Summary Report: Flin Flon

Community Partner name: Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation  Conversation date: Jan. 18 – Feb. 1  1. Introduction  A. Summary  Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation (BOCN) is clearly being affected by climate change, specifically through the extreme temperatures in the summer and winter months and the lack of precipitation all year. These environmental changes have made it more difficult to gather and grow food, which also impacts the community’s cultural identity.… Read More »Community Summary Report: Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation 

Click to download the PDF. Treaty 6 Territory and Homeland of the Métis Saskatoon, SK Canada  Community Partner name: Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership (SPRP) Conversation date: December 9, 2021  1. Introduction  A. Summary  The conversation about the intersection between poverty, income and climate is a new one for the partners at the SPRP. That being said, the 12 Bold Ideas to Eliminate Poverty reflects on specific aspects of climate action within… Read More »Community Summary Report: Saskatoon

  Click to download the PDF. March 4, 2022 The Green Resilience Project took place at the Ahtahkakoop Community Hall at 10 a.m on January 31, 2022. We invited Michelle Brass as a keynote speaker. Michelle gave a presentation on “Climate Change: How it has Affected the People” and her take on Indigenous World View and possible solutions to Climate Change. The Green Resilience Workshop was also complimented by Lee… Read More »Community Summary Report: Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation

Click to download the PDF. Community Partner name: Ecology North  Conversation date: Saturday, February 19th, 2022  1. Introduction  A. Summary  100-150 words that highlight the key takeaways from the Community Summary Report. Were there any issues, concerns, solutions or ideas that were talked about in multiple breakout groups and/or were strong themes in discussion of the full group? Did any general points of consensus emerge from the group?  The NWT… Read More »Community Summary Report: Northwest Territories

Click to download the PDF. Green Resilience Project Greater Edmonton and Alberta March 16, 2022 Citizens for Public Justice Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) is a national organization of members, inspired by faith, to act for justice in Canadian public policy. We are based in Ottawa, but have deep roots in Alberta, particularly in the Christian Reformed Church community (composed primarily of Dutch immigrants and their families) in the Edmonton… Read More »Community Summary Report: Alberta, primarily Edmonton