#Size Matters
Tynette Deveaux — September 2, 2021
Atlantic Chapter
Sierra Club Atlantic is a vibrant grassroots organization that empowers people to protect, restore, and enjoy a healthy safe planet. We are your chapter of Canada’s only national grassroots environmental organization, working to bring your community’s concerns to the attention of regional and national leaders. Together, we are a credible, influential voice working to make a better world a reality.
What are we up to?
The Atlantic Chapter works through education and action to green the economy and protect the environment. We engage in projects designed to connect children to nature, protect wildlife and wild spaces, and to offer solutions to climate change.
What you need to know about embodied carbon
Tynette Deveaux — September 1, 2021
Embodied carbon, in the context of buildings, refers to emissions associated with the materials extracted for construction, transportation, manufacturing, on-site construction, as well as decommissioning (including demolition, recycling, and landfill).
Offshore Alliance Calls on All Parties to Commit to No Further Fossil Fuel Development, Will Report on Candidates’ Answers
Posted on August 23, 2021
For immediate release: August 23, 2021
Media Contacts:
Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, 1-902-444-7096 / gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
John Davis, Clean Ocean Action Committee, 1-902-499-4421 / jbdavis@eco-nova.com
Offshore Alliance applauds NDP and Green commitments - Other Parties Need to Step Up for Climate
Posted on August 16, 2021
Statement
For immediate release: August 16, 2021
Media Contacts:
Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, 1-902-444-7096 / gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
John Davis, Clean Ocean Action Committee, 1-902-499-4421 / jbdavis@eco-nova.com
We have more power than we think
Tynette Deveaux — August 13, 2021By now, most of you have heard the news about the Special IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report that came out Monday (August 9); it’s been dubbed a “code red for humanity.” Tempting as it is to delve into the report's takeaways, I'd like to discuss how we might wrap our heads around its daunting prognosis for the planet, instead.
Offshore Alliance calls on All Parties to Commit to No Further Fossil Fuel Development
Posted on August 13, 2021
For immediate release: August 13, 2021
Media Contacts:
Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, 1-902-444-7096 / gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
John Davis, Clean Ocean Action Committee, 1-902-499-4421 / jbdavis@eco-nova.com
Marilyn Keddy, Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia, mfkeddy30@gmail.com
New "Beyond Climate Promises" Report
Tynette Deveaux — July 27, 2021
Media Release
For Immediate Release: July 27, 2021
Click here to read our Beyond Climate Promises
Beyond Climate Promises Report Calls on Nova Scotia Government to Step Up on Urgently Needed Climate Action
A Climate Emergency Response to the HRM Plan Review
Tynette Deveaux — July 21, 2021
The Halifax Regional Municipality has made some important strides in addressing the climate crisis and advancing the local conversation around climate change. The Sierra Club Canada Foundation would like to acknowledge those efforts.
The following recommendations include a number of ways that the HRM Council can respond to the climate emergency more quickly and effectively by incorporating more decisive action and earlier time frames in its Regional Plan.
Goldboro LNG fails to secure investor by June 30th deadline
Posted on June 30, 2021
Federal government ignores request for nearly $1 billion in loans or grants
MEDIA RELEASE
June 30, 2021
3 Degrees & Counting
Tynette Deveaux — June 30, 2021As things heat up—literally—from coast to coast, shattering high-temperature records day after day, one report by the National Observer’s Chris Hatch stood out to me. In his Carbon Zero e-newsletter, he wrote:
“What’s truly ‘unfathomable’ for most is that this will be one of the coldest summers of the rest of our lives. Very possibly of all human lives. These are the cool old days.”
New Federal Policy Statement on Thermal Coal Mines “a No-Brainer”
Posted on June 14, 2021
For Immediate Release, June 14, 2021
The Sierra Club Canada Foundation couldn’t agree more with Federal Environment Minister Jonathon Wilkinson that getting off thermal coal is a “no-brainer.” On Friday, June 11, the Minister announced that the Federal government would make it harder for companies to obtain permits for new thermal coal mining projects in Canada.
Now you can paint a room with climate change—Seriously!
Tynette Deveaux — June 14, 2021As COVID-19 marches on in the Atlantic region, and around the world, so too does the climate crisis. The irony, of course, is that these two tragedies are very much interrelated. But we’ll save that for another day.
Our Atlantic Chapter has some great stuff planned in the coming weeks.
Suggested Reads from Decolonizing Book Club
Oshean Juneja — June 4, 2021
Here are the books that were suggested by the participants during our first Decolonizing Book Club Zoom meeting on June 2:
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Stolen Continents by Ronald Wright
- Any Book by Richard Wagamese (examples: One Drum, Indian Horse)
- Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada, by Adam J.
"Every residential school site in Canada is a crime scene"
Oshean Juneja — June 4, 2021
Wapna’kikewi’skwaq – Women of First Light sends our Prayers, love, and light across Turtle Island from the People of the Dawn. As Clan Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunties, and Mothers we are devastated and heartbroken by the news of the 215 beautiful children who were found in BC. Two hundred and fifteen future Clan Mothers, fire keepers, storytellers, leaders, and protectors that were taken brutally from our Nations. We Pray for their Spirit journeys as we Pray for their families and all our communities.
SCREENING: INVISIBLE HAND - Rights Of Nature Documentary
Oshean Juneja — June 4, 2021
Produced by award-winning actor Mark Ruffalo, INVISIBLE HAND takes you behind the curtain of the global economy where ‘Rights of Nature’ becomes “capitalism’s one true opponent.”
In the fall of 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist' in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. For attempting such a radical act, Grant’s rural community of 700 people were sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and are now locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home through civil disobedience. The water they drink, the Rights to Nature laws they've passed are all on the line in this exclusive story.
Watch for Wildlife Driver Safety Film Launched Today in Nova Scotia
Posted on June 4, 2021
How animal-vehicle collisions can be avoided while driving and what to do following a collision
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 4, 2021
Media Contacts:
Gretchen Fitzgerald, National Programs Director | Sierra Club Canada Foundation
902-444-7096, gretchenf@sierraclub.ca
Taylor Godin, Watch for Wildlife Coop Student | Sierra Club Canada Foundation
506-252-4602, watchforwildlife@sierraclub.ca
On the Art of Stealing Human Rights
Oshean Juneja — June 2, 2021These extracts are from a speech given by Gerry Gambill at a conference on human rights at Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick. In this speech, he warned Indigenous people about how society goes about taking away their human rights.
Can you guess what year this speech was given? Read on and we’ll tell you at the end.
Note: The speech was given at a time when the word “Indian” was used by government to refer to Indigenous people and it was common to default pronouns to he (him/his).
Here are a few new things we want to share with you as we go into the weekend
Tynette Deveaux — May 29, 2021An Interfaith Coalition for Treaty Rights recently formed in the Maritimes in anticipation of the start of the Mi’kmaw moderate livelihood fishery. The coalition is made up of a group of concerned individuals and representatives of faith communities and social justice organizations.
SDGA Consultation Resources
Alison Paul — May 28, 2021
On May 27, the Nova Scotia government announced that the long awaited public consultations on the Sustainable Development Goals Act (SDGA) were beginning immediately. While it’s a bit like being invited to a dinner party once the meal has already started, Sierra Club’s Atlantic Canada Chapter and other environmental groups are jumping in.
