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The Nanaimo Climate Action Hub officially launched on November 21st, 2020, with the goal of advancing climate action in Nanaimo and the surrounding areas through advocacy, local initiatives, and collaboration with other organizations.
We hope to continue improving how humans interact with the environment by involving as many people as we can who have unique talents, experiences, and perspectives. We welcome all interested community members in Nanaimo and the surrounding areas, and hope to help amplify the voices of politically under-represented groups including youth and BIPOC in climate conversations. Please subscribe to our mailing list to find out about upcoming events or contact us at NanaimoClimateAction@gmail.com if you'd like to help us organize! |
Principles and Values
Nanaimo Climate Action Hub is a non-profit, grassroots, membership driven organization working in the community to effect change both locally and globally. We collaborate with other groups in Nanaimo and beyond, connecting people to people, people to knowledge, and people to action in response to the climate crisis.
We are a non-partisan organization, working with elected officials, community leaders and local citizens in the interest of fighting the climate emergency.
We are a non-partisan organization, working with elected officials, community leaders and local citizens in the interest of fighting the climate emergency.
Chris Baitz, Director
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Chris is a stay at home dad with a background in robotics and technologies. He would like the best possible world for his two kids to live in when they are grown up.
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Heather Baitz, Chair
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Heather Baitz works as a Clinical Psychologist and in addition to serving as President of the Nanaimo Climate Action Hub, she is also active within the BC Climate Alliance and the West Coast Climate Action Network. She lives on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw Nation in Nanaimo and has a passion for food forest gardening.
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Laurie Friskie, Secretary
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Laurie Friskie is a retired Student Advisor, avid kayaker and gardener.
"I joined the Nanaimo Climate Action Hub because Canada is not doing enough to tackle the climate crisis. By joining a group of likeminded people, with the common goal of supporting concrete action to fight climate change, I believe we can make a difference." |
Don Giberson, Treasurer
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Don Giberson is a professional business coach and founder of Transition Nanaimo Society. He is also the host of Climate911, a weekly radio show which explores solutions to the climate emergency. This is his first attempt at creating an avatar; as you can probably tell.
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Kathryn-Jane Hazel, Director
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Kathryn-Jane Hazel is a climate organizer with the Nanaimo Climate Action Hub, and member of the Environmental Justice Committee of Nanaimo Unitarians.
"I became involved in my first environmental campaign in 1974 – to save a stand of old-growth forest on Sproat Lake. I’ve participated in several others since then, and have been an active campaigner for the Green Party at both federal and provincial levels. I recently signed the Nanaimo Climate Pledge, and am committed to reducing my environmental footprint." |
Kevin Lindsay, Director
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Kevin Lindsay is a veteran software industry go-to-market leader, passionate systems thinker/podcast host and moderator of Pachamama Alliance's Game Changer Intensive. Kevin's previous board service includes WildCare in the Bay Area, and the Calgary Waldorf School. Kevin believes that deliberate and coordinated individual actions form the foundation for community-level impact--and system-level change.
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Larry Whaley, Vice Chair
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Larry Whaley, a lifelong housing and consumer advocate, joined the board of the NCAH to help stimulate action on the climate crisis. His first environmental action took place on the BC Ferry docks in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 90s he took on banks and credit card companies and became known across Canada as The Borrowers' Advocate. More recently Larry was a founding member and first president of the Island Roots Market Co-operative which operates Nanaimo's only year round farmers market.
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Bill Woolverton, Director
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send us an email
NanaimoClimateAction@gmail.com
We are a Community Climate Hub, building public support for political leadership on climate change in affiliation with the Climate Reality Project Canada. Visit the Community Climate Hub website to learn more, find out if your city has a hub, or start one up!
