The three days of summer camping at Fort William gave me a chance to get closer to the nature where I tried to eat less meat. This trip reminded me to live like a human being, rather than a citizen. When people live more like a human they can produce less emissions than before.

This year was the first year me and my father had to shovel our roof due to the amount of snow we have received. Not only the snow has impacts, but also the constant changing weather patterns from mild to cold has built up ice layers on our roof.

Sudden climate change from rainy to sunny and sunny to snowy can directly affect people’s daily mood and hygiene. So, to stay as per change be awaken, be accepting of change

We see the human impacts around us and move to shake them and rectify our mistakes the best we can. We #StandUp4CleanUp to inspire and accelerate the growth and development of a better, more inclusive and sustainable Thunder Bay. To honor these ancestral lands with stewardship.

Thunder Bay temperatures are unusually high and continue to rise.

Due to the changing freeze-thaw cycles, concrete is being lifted, cracked and moved. At the rates they are occurring, it is difficult to keep up with continual concrete maintenance around the city.

This is my daughter’s sunflower. I hope she continues to appreciate the interconnected relationship with our beautiful Earth. It is our children’s strength and resilience, and their sense of wonder and love for this place that will lead the movement toward sustainability.

To me these photos embody a healthy and resilient community; one that is knit together with a strong sense of neighbourhood connectivity and trust. A community that knows each other is a community that can depend on one another in times of need and crisis. Strong social communities can ‘weather storms’ much better than communities in social isolation. City planning, zoning, and engineering all play a big role in how close a community will feel to each other. Regardless of the shift these past decades to an individuality mindset, let’s resist the trend and keep building neighbourhoods that are conducive to strong social connectivity.

A few months ago, my classmate invited me to join her at the Hon. Patty Hajdu’s office to protest the Federal Government’s buyout of the Kinder-Morgan pipeline. We need to hold industry and government accountable for their contributions to climate change!

Weather variance has caused a need for an increase in salt use on sidewalks and roadways. This salt is then carried away by runoff into our water bodies and is harmful to the water quality, the plant and animal life and habitats.