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Observations of Life Make New Connections Pagethe 13 City’s New Seniors’ with Drop-In Program Page 11
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Are you ready to be a climate champion in 2023? Kamloops is taking climate action, and the whole community is invited to be part of it!
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ransition Kamloops has been granted funding to work together with the Kamloops Food Policy Council and the Kamloops Naturalist Club to implement an exciting community resilience-building initiative over the next year. Program participants will explore effective systems change and learn about ways other communities have taken action—then apply this knowledge locally to implement our own “made in Kamloops” plan. “We’ve already seen the impacts that wildfires and
flooding can have. This program is an opportunity for more people to have a say in strengthening our community and making it better prepared for the challenges that are going to keep coming our way,” says Gisela Ruckert, an organizer with Transition Kamloops. “The action projects will be chosen by the program participants themselves―and there’s money available to help implement them.” Starting January 31st, participants will begin to work through four
online learning topics covering key challenges and action paths around climate change. The learning topics require a commitment of two hours a week, which can be completed whenever works for learners. There will also be opportunities to meet inperson with other participants. The four topics participants will be learning about are: 1. Capitalism, Planetary Limits and the Making of New Commons
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