We want to tell everyone about climate change; what it is, the impacts, and what we can do. Let’s talk with the community and tell them about this amazing new website that is connecting information, actions, and stories to inspire climate engagement in the Thunder Bay region.

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!

I’m baking bread, preserving food and thinking before I buy

The more we go outside, connect with the natural world, and honour this beauty we may take for granted, the more we may be inclined to take the steps needed to preserve it for the future.

I took part in constructing a Rain Garden in The Lakehead University area with the “Rain Garden Project Team” which was a collaboration of Lakehead Department of Health Sciences, Lakehead Office of Sustainability, Ecosuperior and Students of Lakehead University.

Do a tick check every time you come back from the outdoors. Tick populations are growing and intensifying due to climate change.

As the world’s economy and climate are rapidly destabilized, we have the power to prepare for the changes, to slow things down, and to move into a future acting like we want humans to be on this planet for at least another few thousand years. We can turn the corner. Will we?

I was overwhelmed to see such beauty serenity and the never-ending shore of Lake Superior. I feel privileged at this very moment to have seen the rocky coast of the lake; to have felt the fresh water on my skin; and to be able to bask under the sun. I want to keep having this experience in the years to come. Nature is powerful, yet its beauty is sublime.

What would you do without power for your clothes dryer?  Using a clothesline can save electricity or gas costs, as rates will continue to sharply rise. Even during wintertime clotheslines will partially dry laundry and help you to save electricity.

I don’t know how climate change will challenge my kids. We’re just starting to see the tip of the iceberg: the tip of the iceberg: crazy weather & seasons…It frightens me. I find courage in how great our kids are, what they will come up with that will help…