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Taking Action for a Better Planet

Posted by Stephanie Rogers on November 20, 2015 in News

Something magical is happening... More than a million people are expected to join together across the world on November 29th to take action and urge world leaders to negotiate the best outcomes from the most important climate summit this decade!  We need to invest our time and resources in a world powered by clean energy. Climate change is happening and we’re contributing to results that we do not want.

Taking Action for a Better Planet – leading together.
In Truro and area, the Living Earth Council is hosting a fun, family friendly event. Students, faculty and staff from CEC and NSCC and DAL-AC are coming together with solutions for this time and for this place.  Jason Blanch, Green Party candidate 2015 and Wendy Robinson, NDP candidate 2015 in the federal election have ideas for actions to improve the planet and reduce climate change and GHG.

What are your ideas? What are we willing to do as a community? What responsibilities and opportunities do our municipal governments have to improve the climate? Join in a worldwide demonstration of concern for the planet and for each other. Take part in this discussion and action planning. Talk to your municipal councillors, the mayors, and each other. Bring two ideas for action - one personal action and one public or political action that will ignite the hearts and minds of others to engage in reducing climate change. Let us make profound changes together.

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This event is part of the Global Climate March. On November 30th, world leaders meet in Paris to negotiate the next global climate deal. That’s why, the day before, people around the world are joining together to urge leaders at every level of government to commit to 100% clean energy. Let’s make a climate deal that gets us off dirty energy and unleashes clean energy for us and in us all.

Location: Dalhousie University, right under the water tower, where College Road and Rock Garden Road meet – at the Rural Research Centre, 58 Rock Garden Rd, Bible Hill, NS B6L 1V7, Canada, Bible Hill, NS

Description: Sunday, November 29th, 1pm welcoming and sharing of ideas by Wendy and Jason. 130pm- small group brainstorming and 2pm a walk on Cobequid Trail into Truro for a 245pm update on climate ideas and cool actions from the Town of Truro and progress on the Community Sustainability Plan.


Contact: Dr. Kathleen Kevany for more information 902.986.8477 or kkevany@dal.ca