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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, Co-Secretary
Heather Baitz, Director
Heather Baitz is a founding member of the Nanaimo Climate Action Hub. She became a climate activist in 2018 after learning about the urgency of the climate crisis. She lives on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw Nation in Nanaimo, works as a Clinical Psychologist, and has a passion for food forest gardening.
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Deanna Fourt, Director
I am a non-indigenous third-generation Canadian who has gratefully lived in Nanaimo for many years. I am passionate about the outdoors, which has cultivated my connection to the environment. However, this has also meant I have witnessed a shocking amount of degradation to the natural environment from human industry. I believe humans can live without such an impact, and I am committed to working for change.
My deep concerns about the environment and climate change led me to enroll in Royal Roads University's Master of Arts in Climate Action Leadership program. I am interested in how climate change will affect nature and how nature can help mitigate its effects and protect us from its impacts. I am also interested in community and citizen climate action, and my thesis, which I am currently working on, combines these two interests.
My deep concerns about the environment and climate change led me to enroll in Royal Roads University's Master of Arts in Climate Action Leadership program. I am interested in how climate change will affect nature and how nature can help mitigate its effects and protect us from its impacts. I am also interested in community and citizen climate action, and my thesis, which I am currently working on, combines these two interests.
Laurie Friskie, Co-Secretary
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
Kathryn-Jane Hazel, Director
Kathryn-Jane Hazel is a climate organizer with the Nanaimo Climate Action Hub, and has been an environmental campaigner for five decades.
"My first environmental campaign was in 1974 – to save a stand of old- growth forest at Sproat Lake. I’ve participated in several others since then, and have lobbied all three levels of government to take action on theclimate. But the personal is political, so I try to live sustainably, too." |
Aragorn Klockars, Director
Kevin Lindsay, Chair
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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
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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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!