TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Make the pledge to act on climate change. We will support you.
FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE – in Sudbury and all around the world, kids are asking adults to act on climate change to protect their future. Youth - you can add your voices. Adults - you can answer that call.
COMING UP: Canada-wide Fridays for Future climate strike May 3. Sign up if you are interested in striking, attending, or assisting. Schools are welcome to bus students to this event. Supporters are welcome too.
YOUTH RALLY (Schools must register in advance)
- Doors open at 10:00 at Laurentian University Fraser Auditorium
- Youth gather for a rally from 10:30 am - 10:55 (registered schools only).
- 10:55 -11:15 - youth should have brought a litter less snack to eat before the walk
- Students can register to attend with their families if space allows
Participating schools -please send letters of confirmation with the numberof students attending to cathy@citizensclimatelobby.org
WALK - Everyone welcome to come.
- 11:15- 12:15 walk en masse from Fraser Auditorium, through campus, down the big hill towards the School of Education and Medical School, turn right at the four-way stop, go past the Daycare and towards the athletic fields and then down the trail that leads through the woods to Loach's Road. All are welcome to join us.
SIGN THE PETITION: Sign the petition asking Council to declare a climate emergency and take the necessary action for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Citizens Climate Lobby Sudbury initiated this petition in support of youth’s call to Greater Sudbury to declare a climate emergency at the Feb. 1 Fridays for Future.
You can sign the petition at reThink Green (176 Larch Street, 3rd floor, stair access)
or drop by Community Voices.
You can print out the petition to collect signatures: English; French.
Please return filled petitions to reThink Green (176 Larch Street, 3rd floor, stair access). Contact us if you have any questions or wish to help more.
Read the full text of the petition cover page here: English, French.
GET INFORMED AND INSPIRED TO ACT: see the Sudbury presentation slides from Environment Commissioner Dianne Saxes’s talk; listen to 15-year-old Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN climate negotiations, COP-24 in Poland in December. Read our Climate Cafe discussion booklet here.
ATTEND OR HOST A CLIMATE CAFE: Connect with people in your area and learn and do some simple but meaningful local actions which can help reduce your carbon footprint and help build political will for action on climate change. All ages welcome.
Watch for more Climate Cafes to come.
Interested in holding a private climate cafe with friends or family, or a climate cafe at your local gathering place, workplace, or place of worship? Contact us, or sign up below.
You can read the Climate Cafe discussion booklet here. Contact us for resources to facilitate a climate cafe, whether an informal gathering with friends and family, or a larger event.
SPEAK UP FOR ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: To send an e-mail to all three levels of government asking them to take the necessary action on climate change to protect our future, copy paste these e-mail lists:
Sudbury - MP Paul Lefebvre, MPP Jamie West, Mayor Brian Bigger and Council
Paul.Lefebvre@parl.gc.ca; Jwest-CO@ndp.on.ca; brian.bigger@greatersudbury.ca; mayor@greatersudbury.ca; mark.signoretti@greatersudbury.ca; michael.vagnini@greatersudbury.ca; gerry.montpellier@greatersudbury.ca; geoff.mccausland@greatersudbury.ca; robert.kirwan@greatersudbury.ca; rene.lapierre@greatersudbury.ca; mike.jakubo@greatersudbury.ca; al.sizer@greatersudbury.ca; deb.mcintosh@greatersudbury.ca; fern.cormier@greatersudbury.ca; bill.leduc@greatersudbury.ca; joscelyne.landry-altmann@greatersudbury.ca
Nickel Belt - MP Marc Serré, MPP France Gélinas, Mayor Brian Bigger and Council
Marc.Serre@parl.gc.ca; fgelinas-qp@ndp.on.ca; brian.bigger@greatersudbury.ca; mayor@greatersudbury.ca; mark.signoretti@greatersudbury.ca; michael.vagnini@greatersudbury.ca; gerry.montpellier@greatersudbury.ca; geoff.mccausland@greatersudbury.ca; robert.kirwan@greatersudbury.ca; rene.lapierre@greatersudbury.ca; mike.jakubo@greatersudbury.ca; al.sizer@greatersudbury.ca; deb.mcintosh@greatersudbury.ca; fern.cormier@greatersudbury.ca; bill.leduc@greatersudbury.ca; joscelyne.landry-altmann@greatersudbury.ca