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Demanding and building local climate action.
We advocate, we organize, and we build.
The planet needs us to do it all.
The planet needs us to do it all.
The Climate Hub aims to develop research, visualize critical data, and develop a central database for everyone to access climate datasets and policies. The hub will be accessed through the Community Climate Council’s website.
The need for this hub is rooted in community members throughout Peel Region who lack access to information about climate change data and policies. This lack of available information prevents youth from taking climate action and contains knowledge of local climate change. This impacts local climate literacy and youth engagement in climate politics. Without the information readily available and accessible, the community cannot demand change from their government.
The hub will produce work through research articles, papers, infographics, webinars, etc. We will be using the medium through the climate science database, climate policy database, climate commentaries, FAQ page, and feedback/discussion forums.
Our Climate Café is a safe and supportive space for community members to come together and chat about climate change and its connection to the human experience, notably the intersections between mental health and climate anxiety, ecological grief, and more.
Although there are spaces for activists to engage and empower one another to tackle the climate crisis, few spaces address the adverse effects of the climate crisis on our collective psyche. The team felt this firsthand while organizing communities to take climate action at the Community Climate Council.
Our Climate Café was founded on 3 principles:
1. Climate change is real – The changing climate impacts the human experience.
2. Inclusion – All are welcome regardless of residence, age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, or knowledge and/or experience with climate change and climate movement.
3. Empowerment – To strike a meaningful balance, the Café includes conversations of concern, hope, and how to live well in the Anthropocene through local action.
Partner on a Climate Café
Do you have an idea for a specific theme for a Climate Café? Do you want to partner with us on a Climate Café? Email commclimatecouncil@gmail.com to connect with our Climate Café team.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead
The CCC made history in September 2019 when it organized Peel Region’s first-ever climate strike in Brampton, Ontario where over 250 residents came to support. We wanted underrepresented BIPOC and marginalized groups, such as residents in Peel region to have a voice in the global movement. This is why each year, during the global climate strikes, we provide a platform for Peel to be heard and seen when it comes to local climate action and our willingness to demand change. In addition, the CCC can be seen supporting other rallies such as Stop Highway 413 and two Hands off The Greenbelt rallies which received coverage from CP24 and OMNI television.
We created signage that guided community members on a hike in 3 parks in Brampton. The signage highlighted various flora and fauna that is found natively in our natural spaces that are often overlooked.
We gained positive reception from community members who said it brought the forest to life for them! In thinking about removing barriers to the outdoors and making nature inclusive for newcomers, the information was also available in Hindi.
The signs featured the species names in Ojibwe to remind the community of our collective responsibility to take care of the land. This is one of the many ways that allies can take a step towards reconciliation in their personal lives.
The project was featured on City News TV, and local newspapers and our goal is to see them as permanent signs in Brampton.
These signs are available for you to rent/use at your next outdoor event or school! Contact us for more information.
Join us each week as we discuss a variety of topics centred around environmental activism and climate change. Most episodes will feature a guest from an affiliated organization that’s tackling climate change in their own neighbourhood. If you’re interested in being featured on an upcoming episode, send us an email at campaigns@peelccc.org. Listen below or on Spotify!
LISTEN HERE
Our Climate Our Stories is a compilation of essays, stories, and poems written by Black, Indigenous, and youth of color from Canada. This e-book was developed to amplify diverse voices on emotions related to climate change, as well as journeys and experiences, communication, impacts and climate action.
Our Climate, Our Stories showcases 20 young Canadian writers along with illustrations developed by Climate Illustrated.Our Climate, Our Stories is a project of People Planet Pages, a book club run in partnership with EnviroMuslims, Community Climate Council and Books-Art-Music Collective, intended to bring together a community of readers to discuss environmental and social sustainability, to initiate conversations, and to provide skills necessary to live sustainable lifestyles.
This project was generously funded by the Rising Youth Grant, a program led by TakingItGlobal. Our teams would also like to express our sincere gratitude to Nature Canada, World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada), David Suzuki Foundation, Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, and Climate Strike Canada for providing a foreword and opening statements to each section of the e-book.
Camp Climate was a digital event series promoting climate literacy, civic engagement, and political advocacy. We made this digital camp in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide the community with a series of fun events, challenges, and opportunities to engage with topics relating to all things climate.
This series involved panel discussion, keynote speakers, workshops, and even an art contest that got submissions from around the globe. This event series was made possible with support from Taking It Global through a Rising Youth community grant.
This youth art gallery initiative was compiled from submissions from our Plastic Free July art contest. This contest was a part of Camp Climate, our digital event series described above.
We were amazed to see all of the incredible submissions from across the globe. This gallery is now concluded, but don't worry because we are working away on Epoch zine, which will feature some of these incredible submissions and their stories.
The Community Climate Council is a registered, non-charitable not-for-profit. This means that we, unfortunately, cannot issue charitable receipts for tax deduction purposes.
You can learn more about where donations will be spent in our organization by following the link below.
Not able to donate financially? You can support our work and mission by donating your time as a volunteer or sharing our work with your own networks and contacts.
