Upcoming events.
Breaking Barriers: Growing Future Farmers Policy Jam Hosted by Young Agrarians
“Calling all new farmers and farm policy nerds! You’re invited to the “Breaking Barriers: Growing Future Farmers” National Policy Jam in eastern Ontario this March 15 and 16, 2025. Join us to connect and mobilize around policy action to support new farmers across Canada.
The gathering will be a coast to coast convening of new and young farmers, farmer organizations, farm policy leaders and allies looking to learn, connect and mobilize around better supports for new and young farmers, including access to land, capital, knowledge, and wrap-around supports.”
Saturday March 15 9 am PST - March 16 5 pm PST 2025
Location: 1194 Sugar Bush Lane Parham, ON K0H 2K0 Canada
Ask a Landmatcher with Nyree Marsh Hosted by Young Agrarians
“Calling all farmers, landholders, and farm-curious folks! Looking for information or advice about leasing farmland? Come gather with your community for a Q&A session with Columbia Basin Land Matcher, Nyree Marsh!
Join us on Thursday, March 6th to learn how you can access farmland or lease your farmland, with support from the B.C. Land Matching Program. Nyree Marsh, our Columbia Basin Land Matcher, will share information and answer questions about leasing and sharing land, the land matching process and farm transition. Nyree has been farming or working with farmers in the Kootenays since 2005 – she offers a wealth of local farming knowledge, so bring all your questions!
We encourage all landholders to join us, whether you have a well-developed vision for your land or have just started thinking about land sharing. We also welcome all farmers and farmers-to-be, whether you grow fruits or veggies, raise livestock (or bees) or have some other farming project in mind.
Come stop by to learn about land sharing while connecting with your community!”
March 6, 2025
6pm - 8pm PST
Location: Sinixt, Secwepemc, Ktunaxa & Syilx Territories. Salmo Valley Youth & Community Centre, 206 Seventh St, Salmo, BC
Bonfire Organizer Convergence hosted by Youth Climate Finance Alliance
“ Feeling disillusioned by the present political moment? Interested in learning how young people in the imperial core can build real political power? Ready to ignite the spark for a more strategic and revolutionary mass movement? Join us at Bonfire, Youth Climate Finance Alliance’s 2025 winter convergence!
Students from across the country will convene in Houston, TX. Together, we’ll build connections, gain skills, and co-create strategies to disrupt Citibank’s fossil fuel funding and connect climate & anti-imperialist movements.
What can students expect from the convergence?
🔸 Training in campaigning, storytelling, direct action & more
🔸 A platform to grow your campus campaigns
🔸 Co-creating a shared vision for liberation with youth organizers from around the country
Apply solo or as a small group!”
Deadline: January 7, 2025
YCFA will cover travel, lodging, and meals.
Climate Cafe Hosted by Climate Psychology Alliance
“Do you wish you had connections you could share #climateemotions with? Join a #climatecafe to find and help create the place to share climate emotions like doom, hope, and fear. Our wonderful facilitators focus on encouraging attendees to share as much or little as they feel called to in the moment. We hope to see you there!”
Online event open to the public
Sunday January 31st, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30pm EST
Project Feed the Hood Compost Day
“Hello Feed the Hood family! We are starting the new year with another round of Johnson-Su bioreactor builds and would like to invite you all out to join us. Come learn about composting methods while helping PFTH get ready to create a whole new batch of nutrient rich compost for our production growing.”
In person event for folks in New Mexico
Saturday January 11, 2025
10am - 12:00pm
Climate Cafe Hosted by Climate Psychology Alliance
“Do you wish you had connections you could share #climateemotions with? Join a #climatecafe to find and help create the place to share climate emotions like doom, hope, and fear. Our wonderful facilitators focus on encouraging attendees to share as much or little as they feel called to in the moment. We hope to see you there!”
Online event open to the public
Sunday January 19th, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00pm EST
Climate Cafe Hosted by Climate Psychology Alliance
“Do you wish you had connections you could share #climateemotions with? Join a #climatecafe to find and help create the place to share climate emotions like doom, hope, and fear. Our wonderful facilitators focus on encouraging attendees to share as much or little as they feel called to in the moment. We hope to see you there!”
Online event open to the public
Monday January 6th, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30pm est
Sustainable Filmmaking & Best Practices from an Indigenous Lens
“Join Sacred Earth, @indigenousscreen & @telefilm_canada for this 3-hour pilot workshop with seasoned Indigenous filmmakers who tell powerful stories on screen, and advocate for sustainable practices behind the scenes!
We will discuss best practices that have been laid out in the film industry and discuss how Indigenous values and epistemology are critical as we move forward towards sustainable filmmaking to reflect Indigenous values of protecting Mother Earth, both on and off the screen.
Telefilm will be coordinating live simultaneous translation for francophones”
Online: November 25
from 1pm PST to 4pm PST / 4pm EST - 7pm EST
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdO2opjsqGdW56w5XXLW3q2qjDcn88Jik#/registration
Decolonizing Climate Action Toolkit
“This interactive, online workshop will be a deep dive into the recently released Decolonizing Climate Action Toolkit for ENGOs in so-called Canada.
All folks working on climate action are welcome to join us for this workshop!
Come join us to take next steps towards active allyship and in centering Indigenous Rights and Sovereignty in to your approach to climate action.
November 18th
1pm - 3pm
Check out the toolkit here: https://jengobby.wordpress.com/decolonizing-climate-action-tool-kit/
This workshop with be facilitated by Kahsennóktha, who is Kanien’kehà:ka from Kanehsatà:ke and by Jen Gobby, a settler organizer and researcher (www.jengobby.ca).
Translation will not be provided, but folks are invited to speak in either English of French.
More information about the Toolkit and workshop:
Deep down, most of us feel like the climate movement is stuck and even worse, that we’re losing ground. Despite raging wildfires, droughts and other climate disasters, more Canadians are turning to false solutions1. It’s clear that we need to rethink our approaches and find more powerful ways forward.
In recent years, Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs) have started to recognize what Indigenous people have been saying for decades: the driving causes of the climate crisis are colonialism, capitalism and extractivism. However, in grassroots and frontline communities, these acknowledgements from ENGOs have often felt opportunistic and hollow, paying lip service to a moral obligation, but not making the material changes that would make a difference.
In some cases, ENGOs perpetuate colonial relations that harm trust building and undermine Indigenous movements. For those looking to take real steps to decolonize your approaches and to meaningfully support Indigenous movements, this tool kit and workshop are here to guide you.
If Canada’s climate movement fully got behind this vision, it could be a major game changer. Decolonizing climate action is not just the right thing to do, but it is how we, together, become powerful enough to win.”
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMof-ypqT4tH9Xt2RxAapRsuneeUyXmqGVw#/registration
Rooted In Community Hosted by Youth Climate Lab and Manitoba’s Climate Action Team
“Rooted in Community is coming to Winnipeg! We are inviting Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) youth to join us at Take Home BIPOC ArtHouse for a climate emotions workshop and letter-writing blitz!
Join us for an afternoon of solidarity, art, and action! There will be snacks, new friends to make, and a chance to win a Climate Dreaming Journal from Shake Up the Establishment.”
Saturday, November 16th
1:30 pm CT -3:30 pm CT
This event is for folks in Winnipeg, Canada at the following location:
622-100 Arthur Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H7
How to Host and Facilitate A Climate Cafe: An Online Experiential Workshop Host by: Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
“JOIN US!! Let’s talk climate emotions as we build community. Visit [this link] to sign up for one of THREE new How to Facilitate and Host a Climate Café classes! There’s one left in 2024 (that’s not full) and two in the new year!”
November 16, 2024
11:30 am EST - 2:45 pm EST
Power Mapping 101
“Think the apple’s rotten right to the core? The distance between where we want to be and where we are may be great, but the journey is clearer when you map out campaign targets you can move. Power Mapping 101 will help your group:
- Identify a campaign target and their pressure points
- Take stock of your group’s assets
- Apply your resources towards winning change”
November 13
4-5:30 pm PT / 7-8:30 pm ET
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuyrrD4jGtcmmGI0dePj9yQuwoapmVug?_x_zm_rtaid=61DH3r5RRniHSLJSLhey0g.1731007085294.148a5cadbbc512dc549327b350ef42b1&_x_zm_rhtaid=625#/registration
Morning Coffee Webinar: a Conversation with Karenna Gore Hosted by: Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley
“On November 12, Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley will host CEE Founder and Executive Director Karenna Gore for the Morning Coffee webinar series. A Q&A session will follow a short dialogue. “
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
8:30 AM EST - 9:30 AM EST
Understanding The Limits of Colonial Sovereignty Virtual Teach - In Hosted by: Haul No!
Haul No! will host a virtual teach-in on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 6pm MST that will review the Navajo Nation policies (and recent changes) related to the work to protect all impacted communities from Energy Fuels’ Pinyon Plain uranium mine, White Mesa uranium mill (in Utah), and radioactive transports.
Learn about the Navajo Nation Diné Natural Resources Protection Act; the Radioactive & Related Substances Equipment, Vehicles, Persons, & Materials Transportation Act and new transportation regulations in progress.
Haul No! events are free and open to the public. This teach-in will center those most at risk and prioritize questions and statements from residents near the mine, the mill, or along the current haul route. For everyone else, please be mindful when joining this space. Thank you!
November 6, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm MST
Register here: tinyurl.com/haulno110624
