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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken
An international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer 100 realistic and bold solutions to climate change. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air.

Climate News

'The sun is keeping ice cream cold for all of western Canada' via CTV News

'The home of Canada's energy sector is set to outpace the country in renewables growth: forecast' via CBC News

'‘It’s the future’: Town of Taber looking at net-zero carbon emissions' via Global News

Local Events

June 3, 5 pm - Y2Y and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies bring you the next talk in its virtual speaker series. Hear from guest speaker Whisper Camel-Means on Protecting Spirit of Place. Registration required.

June 5 - The Rotary Club of Canmore celebrates World Environment Day by organizing a “Community-Wide Canmore Clean-Up Day”. Please contact Rotarian Carol Poland - polandcm@gmail.com for more info.

June 7, 6:30 pm - artsPlace is hosting: Earth Seasoned: #GapYear - a film and community conversation focused on the inspiring story of five young urban women who spend a gap year between high school and college living semi-primitively in a remote mountainside wilderness in Oregon. Registration required.

June 15, 7 pm - Do you want to be a better climate communicator? Or learn how to have non-combative conversations around energy? Join Bow Valley Climate Action for their Alberta Narratives Project Webinar. Registration required.