A brief introduction to the Nanaimo Community Climate Connectors

1. Community Climate Connectors
Karina Kalvaitis

2. The Climate
Crisis is a Global
Emergency
During World War 2
in Britain, people had
support from
volunteers to build
bomb shelters and
other family measures.
They didn’t have to do
it on their own.

3. Goal #1
We are a group of 10
local people who are
working to reduce
and eliminate our
household climate
pollution:
Our Transportation
Our Homes
Our Food

4. • Our Transport: walking, cycling, e-
bikes, transit, electric vehicles to
eliminate our use of oil.
• Our Homes: Energy-saving changes;
heat pumps to eliminate our use of
oil and gas for heat.
• Our Food: Eating less meat, more
veggy and vegan, to reduce the
climate pollution caused by red
meat.

5. Goal #2
Train ourselves in
the skills and
confidence to
approach 20
neighbours each,
using a Zoom
meeting to offer
support to help our
neighbours to
reduce their climate
pollution.

6. Goal #3
• Track the various
obstacles that arise.
• Chart the city and
provincial policies
or initiatives that
we will need to
overcome them.
• Use the Nanaimo
Climate Action Hub
to seek the needed
changes.

7. Goal #4
Scale up
Use our learned
experience to train 2% of
the population to become
Community Climate
Connectors
In Nanaimo:
Train 2,000 Community
Climate Connectors to
offer climate action
support to their
neighbours.
Then: Scale-up for the
whole of BC.

8. 280 Climate Action Groups and Initiatives in BC
Launch on February 23rd
www.bcclimateactionnetwork.ca