Weekly Newsletter – Climate Action Muskoka

Below are links to our weekly newsletters all the way back to September 2020. Click on a pic to view a newsletter from our archive.

We send out a newsletter every Thursday evening; confirming our weekly climate strikes and keeping you informed about what’s happening in climate action in Muskoka and beyond. Additionally, we very occasionally send a special alert if we have news that just can’t wait.

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June 23, 2022 — Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville and Sundridge | Thinking About How to Heat Your Home Without Fossil Fuels? Federal Government Announces New Green Energy Loan | Political Action of the Week — Join the campaign to ban fossil fuel ads | Webinar Series: A Walk in the Park with Gil | Canada Post Commits to Zero Emissions. (Illustration above by Michael Byers, from Chatelaine)
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June 16, 2022 — Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville and Sundridge | Community Carbon Challenge — Silent Spring 2022 and What You Can Do | Highways to Boulevards Movement | The Big Shift Last Time: From Horse Dung to Car Smog.
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Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan — **June 9, 2022** – **In this week’s newsletter** – Why CAM is Perturbed but Undeterred, and You Should Be Too
Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville and Sundridge
Muskoka Drawdown: John Meyer — The Post-Pandemic World
Ford’s Urban Sprawl Agenda: Pave Everything from Farmlands to Wetlands to Woodlands — June 16
Ecotherapy 101: Free Workshop — June 16
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**May 31, 2022** — **Political Action of the Week — Vote Climate** | Doug Ford and the Climate and Conservation Calamities — A video | On the Road to Zero — Doug’s Sprawlways | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville and Sundridge.
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**May 26, 2022** — Climate activist MP Elizabeth May & PSM Green Party candidate Matt Richter to climate strike with CAM in Bracebridge — Friday May 27 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Sundridge | On the Road to Zero — New cartoon by Len Ring | Meanwhile, in Ontario… A Climate Action Plan for Ontario | Political Action of the Week: Vote Climate | Provincial Highway Plan is Reckless: Muskoka Region.
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May 19, 2022 — Hooray! Shannon Blanchard’s Grade 7/8 GPS Class Takes the Community Carbon Challenge | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Ford’s Urban Sprawl Agenda: Pave Everything from Farmlands to Wetlands, May 26 | Students Taking Action — Cinderillia, a Video | Meanwhile, in Ontario… Land Use, Sprawl and Highways | Political Action of the Week: Check out this coverage of the Northern Ontario Leaders Debate, May 10
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**May 12, 2022** — Spread the Word at Muskoka Earth Festival — May 28 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Political Action of the Week — Watch SCAN! OnDemand Webinar Excerpt | Muskoka Drawdown: Dr. Laurie Houston — Greening Healthcare | Meanwhile, in Ontario… The Climate Impact of Buildings | Emergency in Ontario: Rally for Climate, Communities, and Nature! May 14 in Toronto
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**May 5, 2022** — Ring of Fire Threatens the Breathing Lands: Webinar May 12 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Meanwhile, in Ontario… Week 6 of 9. Ford government squanders millions on anti-climate court cases | Community Carbon Challenge: Efficiency without sufficiency is lost | Have you met Maude and Millie? A video by Seniors for Climate Action Now!
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**April 25, 2022** — Meanwhile, in Ontario… Week 5 of 9 — Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville (back at Town Hall!), Sundridge | Climate Action Muskoka among 125+ group coalition launching Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign | Doug Ford’s Climate Crimes: A SCAN! ‘Indictment on 33 Counts’ — May 3 | Political Action of the Week: Watch video featuring young Indigenous activists on tackling the climate crisis
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**April 21, 2022** — Reminder: Human Health and the Climate Emergency — Tuesday April 26 | Meanwhile, in Ontario… Week 4 of 9 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Political Action of the Week: Review 33 ‘Doug Ford Climate Crimes’
On the Road to Zero | Mateos Mobile Bike Repair
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April 14, 2022 — Human Health and the Climate Emergency — April 26 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Meanwhile, in Ontario… Trees, Forests and Ring of Fire | Earth Day Beach Party at the Georgian Bay Biosphere | Muskoka Drawdown: Angela Bischoff of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance | Seeking Activists to Continue to Push for Climate Justice
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April 7, 2021 — Meanwhile, in Ontario… Week 2 of 9 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Political Action of the Week: Join RBC Day of Action in Bracebridge — Friday April 8 | Video: Banking on a Better Future | Community Carbon Challenge: Get Outside — Spring Edition | Gardeners, it’s time to plant | Chefs Taking Action — Cooking Without Gas
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March 31, 2022 — Housekeeping: Pls email us at climateactionmuskoka@gmail.com | Introducing: Meanwhile, in Ontario… | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Political Action of the Week: Share this Climate Spiral | Day of Action — Send RBC a message, Friday April 8 | Top 10 Electric Car Myths Busted | Municipalities Taking Action – National Climate League Standings
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March 24, 2022 — Special Fridays For Future Global Strike Tomorrow! #PeopleNotProfit — March 25 | Political Action of the Week: Attend #PeopleNotProfit Global Strikes | CAM Partners with Retired Teachers of Ontario to Deliver Climate Curriculum to Muskoka Students |
PROMPT Presents: Voting to End Poverty — A 7-part series | Celebrities call on RBC to stop financing B.C.’s Coastal GasLink project
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March 17, 2022 — Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville (NEW LOCATION), Sundridge | Special Fridays For Future Global Strike — March 25 | Community Carbon Challenge: **Talk to Your Kids About the Climate Crisis** | Muskoka Drawdown — Environmental Lawyer Dianne Saxe | Rainwater Harvesting Webinar — March 24
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March 10, 2022 — CAM Calls Out Ontario’s Ford Conservatives on Climate | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Climate Action Parry Sound and Just Transition Act, this Saturday | Political Action of the Week: James Bay Lowlands — The Breathing Lands — The ‘Ring of Fire’ | IPCC Report: Climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet | OnDemand Webinar: Dreaming About Owning That Electric Vehicle? | Heat Pumps For Peace and Freedom by Bill McKibbon
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March 3, 2022 — Political Action of the Week: Tell Your MP, Reject the Conservatives’ Pipeline Push | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | From Climate Laggards to Leaders: Transforming Public Pension Funds — A webinar on March 9 | Community Carbon Challenge: It’s Time to Order Seeds | Community Carbon Challenge: Yes, heat pumps work in Canadian winter! | How To Heat Your Home In Canada Without Fueling Climate Change | Provinces Taking Action: Used electric-battery cars in B.C. exempted from provincial sales tax
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February 24, 2022 — The High Price of Bad Carbon Choices: Doug Ford, Renewables and the Climate Emergency — March 2 | Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | On the Road to Zero | Communities Taking Action : Douro-Dummer | Trans-Mountain Pipeline—An albatross around the necks of taxpayers
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Think Globally — Act Locally

SDG goals — February 17, 2022 — Weekly In-Person Climate Strikes in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Sundridge | Muskoka Drawdown: Interview with Climate Change Activist, Susan Brandum | Community Carbon Challenge: Think Globally — Act Locally | Political Action of the Week: Lobby for Heat Pumps | Have You Met Grace, the 125-year-old Turtle? | Indigenous-Led Climate Action — Next Gen of Policy Changemakers, Webinar on February 12
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February 10, 2022 — In-Person Climate Strikes Resume in Huntsville (Yay!) | Alternatives to Climate Striking: Letter | On the Road to Zero Carbon — Ah. Silence. | Political Action of the Week — Listen to ‘Ford’s Bogus Climate Plan’ Podcast from Planet Haliburton | Quick N Delish Stay-Home Soup from Susan Biehn Smith | Webinar February 24: Washing machine fIlters.
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February 3, 2022 — In-Person Climate Strikes Resume (Yay!) | Three Mighty Pens — Letters to the Editor | Political Action of the Week — Write to your newspaper or political representative | New Release — Wild Heart by Wilderness Betty and the Turnips | Getting Off Gas: A how-to guide to get fossil fuels out of your home by Seth Klein | Communities Taking Action: Geothermal heating co-op shares warmth among Montreal neighbours
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January 27, 2022— Enviro-Cafe: Ford’s Bogus Climate Plan — February 8 | #FridaysforFuture Climate Action—February Approacheth | Community Carbon Challenge: Winter Recreation — Get Outside | Now Hiring: Project Coordinator for G.R.E.A.T. Housing | A Walk in the Park With Gil | Municipalities Taking Action — Vancouver Poised To Be First Canadian City With Electric Fire Truck
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January 20, 2022 — Webinar: Posing As Canadian: Big Foreign OIl’s Capture of Canada’s Energy and Climate Policy — January 27 | Online #FridaysforFuture Climate Action Continues | Muskoka Drawdown: An Interview with Laura Thomas of Hidden Habitat | Community Carbon Challenge — New Cartoon | Political Action of the Week — Bone up on Climate | Municipalities Taking Action — New York City Bans Gas in New Buildings
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January 13, 2022 — Save the Date! January 27—Posing As Canadian: Big Foreign Oil’s Capture of Canada’s Energy Policy, a Virtual Presentation by Gordon Laxer | Online Climate Strikes Continue | Community Carbon Challenge — Repair Everything | Municipalities Taking Action — Hamilton Votes to Stop Sprawl | The Best of Two Worlds: Lessons for Sustainability from Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Western Science, Webinar Series
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January 6, 2022 — Instead of In-Person Climate Strikes… | New Feature: Municipalities Taking Action — Guelph | A Big Fat Bill for Doug Ford’s Climate Negligence is Coming for Ontario | On Planet Haliburton: Katharine Hayhoe, author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case For Hope and Healing.
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December 31, 2021 — Happy New Year! | Community Carbon Challenge Cartoon — New Year’s Resolution, the Deja Vu edition | Fridays for Future climate strikes continue online | Plenty of CCC fodder for your new year’s resolutions!
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December 24, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes Going Online | Community Carbon Challenge Cartoon — Just Transition, pun intended | New from Quick N Delish — Leek, Carrot, Parsnip and Ginger Soup | Christmas Cartoon — Handle with Care.
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December 16, 2021 — Community Carbon Challenge: A Climate Christmas Carol | Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville | Reimagining the Future: My next vehicle in Muskoka will be electric | So how fast can we implement change? An illustration | Political Action of the Week: Ask Ottawa to designate a Federal Environment Study for the Bradford Bypass Highway
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December 9, 2021 — New report—Posing As Canadian: How Big Foreign Oil captures Canadian energy and climate policy, By Gordon Laxer | Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville | Political Action of the Week: Read Gordon Laxer’s ‘Posing As Canadian’ Report | What We Can Do: A special show on fighting climate change in your home, work and finances. CBC Radio’s The Current. | Towns and Cities Leading the Transition: Halton Hills Pledges Net Zero Emissions by 2030.
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December 2, 2021 – Washing Machine Filters Reduce Microfiber Emissions: Parry Sound Study | FFF climate strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville | Political Action of the Week: Equip Washing Machines With Microfibre Filters, Pass Bill 279 | Community Carbon Challenge: I will work to further reduce my carbon footprint | Muskoka Community Land Trust: A Community-Driven Model for Attainable and Affordable Housing | Canada Infrastructure Bank to fund 4,000 electric school buses in Quebec | Podcast: Tensions Swell on Wet’suwet’en Territory
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November 25, 2o21 – FFF climate strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville. Bracebridge FFF to picket RBC in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en | Political Action of the Week: Sign the open letter to reconsider the Trans Mountain pipeline | Community Carbon Challenge Illustration | Muskoka Drawdown: Interview with Evan Ferrari of eMERGE Guelph | Webinar: Busting the Fossil Fuel Corridor.
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November 18, 2021 — Muskoka Drawdown returns with new host, Frank De Jong | Fridays for Future climate strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville | Community Carbon Challenge: Get Creative to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint This Holiday Season | Political Action of the Week: Check out Electricity Map —a live global map of the environmental impact of electricity | Energy in Ontario: Interview with Jack Gibbons of Ontario Clean Air Alliance | Race Against Climate Change: New Podcast | Book Review of Paul Hawken’s Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
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November 11, 2021 — Pictures and coverage of Saturday’s COP26 Climate Strike Muskoka | Fridays for Future climate strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville—note Huntsville location | In the Kids’ Voices…An op-ed to COP26 decision-makers | Are you ready to take local action? We’re looking for four folks, or more! | Community Carbon Challenge — Lentil Carrot Soup With Rosemary, from Quick n Delish | COP26 and Net Zero’s Distractions — Now Available On Demand
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November 4, 2021 — Reminder: COP26 Climate Strike, Saturday November 6 in Huntsville | Fridays for Future climate strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville. Note this week’s Huntsville location | People’s Summit For Climate Justice Nov. 7-10 — Free | Political Action of the Week: Attend Some Sessions at the People’s Summit for Climate Justice | Community Carbon Challenge Cartoon, swearing with Greta | Webinar: Canada’s Climate Record: Broken Promises, Bright Future? Sunday November 7.
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October 28, 2021 — Tomorrow! RBC in Bracebridge climate strike in support of Global Day of Action Against Fossil Finance, Huntsville regular Fridays for Future Climate Strike | Community Carbon Challenge: Halloween Edition | COP26 Climate Strike: Global Day for Climate Justice, Saturday, November 6 in Huntsville | Political Action of the Week: Attend One or Both of the CAM-sponsored Climate Strikes Above | Outrage and Optimism Podcast — Small Countries, Big Vision with Nicola Sturgeon | TED Countdown Global Livestream October 30 12pm ET on YouTube
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October 21, 2021 — COP 26 and Net Zero’s Dangerous Distractions: Webinar October 28 | Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Huntsville and Bracebridge | Political Action of the Week — Ask Your Council to Endorse a Natural Gas Phase-Out in Ontario. We’re looking for volunteers! | Mark your Calendars! Join CAM During COP26 to Make Your Voice Heard — Saturday, November 6 in Huntsville | Canadian Tzeporah Berman’s pre-COP TED talk on the global treaty to phase out fossil fuels.
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October 14, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes — Huntsville & Bracebridge | Virtual Town Hall on Climate Action — October 21 | Political Action of the Week — Attend the Virtual Town Hall on Climate Action. Speak up, ask questions | Community Carbon Challenge: A Stitch in Time … Mend Your Clothes | Four Key Calls to Action to Trudeau before COP26 from Stand.earth and Sum of Us | Birmingham’s transformative transport plan sets an example for other communities—including Muskoka | Planet Haliburton Presents: Net Zero’s Dangerous Distractions, October 16 and as a podcast.
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October 7, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes — Huntsville & Bracebridge | What Is COP 26? Here’s What You Need to Know | New video: How you travel matters! By Legh McNabb | Business Case for Sustainability Webinar — October 20 | Apple Chutney — New Quick n Delish Recipe by Susan Biehn-Smith | Mark Your Calendars: Muskoka Region’s Virtual Town Hall on Climate — October 21. Pictured above: Climate striker in Huntsville, September 24, 2021.
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September 30, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes — Huntsville & Bracebridge | September 30, 2021, National Day of Truth & Reconciliation | Community Carbon Challenge: Break the idling habit | Political Action of the Week: Listen to Gordon Laxer’s vision for a just transition.
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September 23, 2021 — Update on Fridays for Future Climate Strikes — Huntsville & Bracebridge, Minden, Parry Sound… | Political Action of the Week: Tell the Feds What Just Transition Means To You—Deadline September 30 | Seven Climate Champions Elected — So Far… | Petition: Urge Party Leaders to Cooperate to Make Progress on Climate and Inequality NOW
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September 16, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes — Huntsville & Bracebridge Political Action of the Week: Monday Sept 20 — VOTE CLIMATE | This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs Climate with Naomi Klein — September 27 | Planet Haliburton podcast — Ecological Overshoot with William Rees.
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September 9, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes — *Huntsville* & Bracebridge | Pictures & thank you from Canada Is Still On Fire — Vote Climate Day of Action September 8, 2021 | Political Action of the Week — Get Informed. A comparison of 2021 Federal Party Platforms on Climate | Carbon Capture and Storage ‘Honest Government Ad’
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September 2, 2021 — Political Action of the Week: Join us in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Gravenhurst and Parry Sound for Canada On Fire Day of Action September 8 | Fridays for Future Climate Strike in Bracebridge September 10 | What Does Climate Action Have To Do With the Land Back Movement? | Grassroots Organizers and a Group of Arizona Moms Helped This School District Get Its First Electric Bus.
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August 26, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strike in Bracebridge | Community Carbon Challenge — Don’t Upgrade Your Phone (Yet!) | Political Action of the Week – Mark Your Calendars and Start Your Signs! | Meet the 2021 Federal Candidates for Parry Sound Muskoka | Visit the Elections Canada Online Service | Making Fossil Fuels History: Can renewables get us there? SCAN! Webinar.
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August 19, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | Canada On Fire — Day of Action, September 8, 2021 | Political Action of the Week: Tell the Feds What Just Transition Means To You | Planet Haliburton podcast: Big Fossil and the Climate Emergency | Quick ‘n Delish — Black Bean & Corn Salsa.
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August 12, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change: 2021 The Physical Science Basis | IPCC Report Summary (PDF link) | From 350.0rg: Here’s what you need to know about the new IPCC report on the Climate Crisis | Speaking of turning up the heat…. Political Action of the Week: A Pre-election Letter to the Editor Demanding Urgent Action on Climate | Making Fossil Fuels History: Can Renewables Get Us There? Let’s Talk About Canada! Wednesday August 18, 7pm ET.
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August 5, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | Political Action of the Week: Calling on CAM Supporters to Help Distribute CCC Posters and Bookmarks | We Should Do This: City of Toronto Updates Green Standard – Building Code | Planet Haliburton Podcast: Car Wars |Take an eBike for a Spin
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July 29, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | Political Action of the Week: Nation-wide Action: CANADA IS ON FIRE! ACT LIKE IT! | 4 Hopeful Lessons from WWII to Confront Climate Change | Indigenous Canada — Online learning from University of Alberta | Quick N Delish — Wildberry Muffins | Take an eBike for a Spin.
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July 22, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | Political Action of the Week: Tell the District of Muskoka What Community Safety and Wellbeing Means To You! | A new video: IT’S OUR H2O created by Legh with music by Rob Currie and Bet Smith. | CAM Endorses Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. | One omission: Len’s latest 50% by 2030 CCC illustration. It’s so easy to sign up!
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July 15, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | Many thanks to the Retired Teachers of Ontario, Muskoka Chapter, which last Friday presented Climate Action Muskoka with funding and support to help educate the community and encourage uptake for the Community Carbon Challenge | Political Action of the Week: Not signed up yet? | Re-Imagining the Future: Urban Green Space in Muskoka | Majority of Oil Patch Workers Believe Canada Should Pivot to Net Zero Economy | Toronto City Council votes by overwhelming majority (22-2) to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to phase out fossil fuels and fast track a fair energy transition.
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July 8, 2021 — Confirming Fridays for Future climate strikes in Bracebridge. | Political Action of the Week – Heat and Fires Everywhere | Greta speech to Austrian World Summit 2021 | More Kudos in Order! Lake of Bays Council and Bracebridge Council Declared a Climate Emergency This Week! | Low-speed chase: Why Ontario communities are pursuing a new kind of vehicle.
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July 1, 2021 — Fridays for Future Climate Strikes in Bracebridge | Some thoughts on Canada Day | Author and CAM supporter David Bruce Patterson receives Bracebridge Community Arts and Culture Award | Let’s ‘Pack the Lake of Bays Meeting’ Digitally, Muskoka! | Kudos to Huntsville Town Council for Passing a Climate Emergency Resolution |Take the Boating Survey — Deadline July 12 | Listen again to the Planet Haliburton episode, The Liberal Climate Action Formula: The Missing Renewables and Fatal Fission Attraction, with Paul McKay.
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June 24, 2021 — Fridays for Future climate strikes in Bracebridge | Buildings as a Solution to the Climate Crisis, a presentation to Huntsville Council — Wednesday, June 30, 9am | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: Support the Circular Economy | Political Action of the Week: Read the 94 Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Muskoka Drawdown — Host Wanted! | Re-Imagining the Future: Food in Muskoka. Pictured above: Len Ring debuts his new sign as we return to climate striking in person in Bracebridge. Friday June 18, 2021.
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June 17, 2021 — In-person climate strikes resume in Bracebridge tomorrow! Note there is no in-person climate strike in Huntsville at this time. | An open letter to MPP Norm Miller and Premier Doug Ford: CAM Opposes Expansion of Natural Gas Pipeline | Political Action of the Week: Tell Miller and Ford How You Feel | Quick N Delish: Southwest Quinoa Salad | Re-Imagining the Future: Turning Muskoka’s main street into green street. Pictured above: Rosemary McGuire climate striking in Huntsville last year. (And by home retrofits, we’re pretty sure she didn’t mean expanded natural gas pipelines. 😉)
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June 10, 2021 — In-person climate strikes resume June 18! | Township of Muskoka Lakes and Township of Lake of Bays residents: We need your support | Coming soon: 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge for Local Businesses and Community Groups | Planet Haliburton: Settler Climate Activist Support for Indigenous Climate Action | Invitation: Breaking Boundaries, Post Growth & The Future We Choose — June 21, 10:30 am. Pictured above: Christine Lauffer posted this on the CAM Facebook page on May 28. ‘Support your local farmers as much as possible,’ she says. With local farmer’s markets opening up again, there’s lots of opportunity to do so. (We don’t know her young assistant’s name, but what a cutie!)
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June 3, 2021 — Truth—a word about the revelation of the finding of children’s remains at a former residential school. | Online climate strikes | Please attend CAM BB presentation June 8 | Political Action of the Week: Sustainable Tourism | Is working from home reducing your carbon footprint? Webinar June 10.
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May 27, 2021 — Online #FridaysForFuture climate strikes | Political Action of the Week: Calling all Town of Bracebridge and Township of Muskoka Lakes residents — We need your support | Reimagining the Future: Your environmental footprint in a digital world, by Rob McPhee in MuskokaRegion.com | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: A call to action at every level | Ticks and Lyme Disease: A TICKing time bomb in Eastern Ontario—June 8 | It’s the End of Oil: Blockbuster International Energy Agency Report Urges No New Fossil Development.
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May 20, 2021 — Online climate strikes | 50% by 2030 — Take the pledge! | Political Action of the Week: Watch the live stream of the Huntsville General Committee Meeting on May 26 to support CAM’s Climate Emergency Declaration | Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre presents: Imagining a Good Future for our Lakes Despite Climate Change — Dr. Norman Yan, May 27 | Muskoka Drawdown Podcast of Land Use: Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere episode now available.
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May 13, 2021 — Climate strikes online | Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere on Muskoka Drawdown — Listen in this Saturday | Muskoka and Gravenhurst Climate Emergencies on the World Stage | Political Action of the Week: We need your voice! Lobby for a Climate Emergency Declaration | Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre presents: Indigenous Perspective: Connecting with the Natural World — May 20 | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge — Choose People-Powered Recreational Vehicles.
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May 6, 2021 — Climate strike online | Political Action of the Week – Lobby for a Climate Emergency Declaration | MSCD Speaker Series – Climate Change, is this really such a big deal in Muskoka? May 13 | EH! Enviro Cafe – My Shoreline, Our Lake, May 11 (The date is incorrect in the e-newsletter. Apologies!) | Reimagining the Future: Food Waste in Muskoka, by Amy Snow. And a fun video from a Belgian bus company.
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April 29, 2021 — Climate strikes online | *Political Action of the Week:* Fight for $15 and Fairness Justice for Workers Rally, May 1 | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: Restore the Dark Sky | Quick N Delish : Easy Lentil Shepherd’s Pie | MSDC Speaker Series: Terrestrial Spaces and Education on Climate Change, May 6 | 10 things to know about Gravenhurst’s climate action strategy.
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April 22, 2021 — Climate strikes online | Happy Earth Day! Video | Gravenhurst declares climate emergency | Political Action of the Week — Say Thank You! | Vibrant Voices webinar | Climate activist Xiye Bastida at the Leaders Climate Summit.
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Picture of Sue McKenzie with sign reading "I want a climate emergency alliance" — April 15, 2021 — Climate strikes online | Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre’s new digital webinar series Love Muskoka — Sustain Muskoka! | Dianne Saxe, April 22 | Political Action of the Week — Invest in your own climate action education | Bracebridge Public [Seed] Library | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge — Active Transportation for Muskoka | Reimagining the Future — Oliver Klimek’s humourous column on keeping warm while reducing your carbon footprint | Poverty Free Halton — Community Conversations: Reawakening the Commons | Learning About Miiskiikenh – Turtles, a webinar with the Georgian Bay Biosphere and Magnetawan First Nation. Turtley awesome!
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April 15, 2021 — Climate strikes online | Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre’s new digital webinar series Love Muskoka — Sustain Muskoka! | Dianne Saxe, April 22 | Political Action of the Week — Invest in your own climate action education | Bracebridge Public [Seed] Library | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge — Active Transportation for Muskoka | Reimagining the Future — Oliver Klimek’s humourous column on keeping warm while reducing your carbon footprint | Poverty Free Halton — Community Conversations: Reawakening the Commons | Learning About Miiskiikenh – Turtles, a webinar with the Georgian Bay Biosphere and Magnetawan First Nation. Turtley awesome!
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April 8, 2021 — Climate strike online | Reimagining the future: What is old is new again in Muskoka | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge — We CAN get there | Planet Haliburton Podcast : The Liberal Climate Action Formula and report: The Liberal Climate Action Formula: A Recipe for Failure | Protect the Greenbelt | Potentials and Pitfalls of Climate Responsible Investment — Webinar April 15.
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April 1, 2021 — Climate strikes moving online – again | New 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge — Rewilding | Alternative housing proposal for Huntsville | Political action of the week: Read up on the new alternative housing proposal | CAM presenting Climate Emergency Resolution to Gravenhurst Town Council April 20 | Muskoka to Six Nations Good Friday Solidarity Caravan – email to make a donation | Carbon Pricing on Trial: Unpacking the Supreme Court Decision and What it Means for Canada | Cycling: Better for the environment than e-vehicles.
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Climate Strikers in Bracebridge. — March 25, 2021 — #FridaysforFuture climate strikes in Bracebridge and Huntsville | Canada’s Climate Action Plan: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – Watch the webinar replay | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge – There are still people Canada who don’t believe climate change is real. Yep, in 2021. | Looking for a good online EV charger Map? | Muskoka to Six Nations Good Friday Solidarity Campaign | Getting Your Garden Started — Webinar April 8.
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March 18, 2021 — Political Action of the Week: Join us for Global Day of Climate Action tomorrow! | Canada’s Climate Action Plan: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Re-Imagining the Future: New column in Muskoka Region | The Grid > SPEEDIER, this Saturday on Muskoka Drawdown | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: The Carbon Footprint of your Refrigerator | Business Bootcamp for New Farmers: Registration is open!
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March 11, 2021 — In-person climate strikes resume tomorrow | #FFF Global Strike for Climate is March 19 – CAM will be there! Join us! | Canada’s Climate Action Plan: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Quick N Delish — Bean “Meat” Balls and Spaghetti | 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: Dad, what if we get there before 2030? | Political action of the week: Say No to Schedule 3 in Bill 257 | Shaping Future Work | Spotted on Instagram: A gym that generates clean energy.
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Picture of the Climate Action Muskoka banner at Memorial Park in Bracebridge — March 4, 2021 — Climate Strikes go back online | Political Action of the Week: Lobby Muskoka car dealerships for EVs | New 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: Make your next vehicle electric | Environment Haliburton! Enviro-Café: Lakeshore Capacity—Planning for Healthy Lakes and Shorelines with Neil Hutchinson | Mobilzing Canada for the Climate Emergency, an interview with author Seth Klein | Climate Legacy — Connecting Seniors to Climate Action | Electric Maid of the Mist | Canada: A Leader in Electric School Buses.
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February 25, 2021 — In-person Fridays for Future climate strikes return | Political action of the week: encourage a Muskoka business to join the 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge | Hats off to four businesses that have taken the pledge | Check out our new Carbon 101 section on the CAM website | Texas Freeze & Muskoka Flooding — What we can learn | Carbon bombs, Canada & Climate: An interview with Bill McKibben.
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February 18, 2021 — Fridays for Future online climate strikes | Political Action of the Week – Save the Ontario Fire College | Blue Green Algae, the good, the bad and the ugly – webinar link | 50% by 2030 Challenge – the Carbon Footprint of Food | New report(s) on transitioning to a fossil fuel-free Canada.
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February 11, 2021 — Confirming digital climate strikes | Presentation on GHG Emissions from Residential Building Materials | Political Action of the Week: Bring The Northlander Back | Invitation to sign the Manifesto of the Canadian Business Youth Council for Sustainable Development | Have You Signed Up for the 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge?
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Picture of Darwen doing art with sign reading "Fossil Banks No Thanks!!" — February 4, 2021 — Confirming weekly online climate strikes | Introducing Quick N Delish | Political Action of the Week — Voice your opposition to MZOs | New 50% by 2030 Challenge — Grow your own vegetables.
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January 28, 2021. Fridays for Future online climate strikes | Blue-Green Algae: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly on Planet Haliburton on Canoe 100.9 FM Saturday January 30 and as a virtual presentation on Environment Haliburton! EH!’s Enviro-Café, Tuesday February 9 | Community-Driven Action in Muskoka – A Webinar, Wednesday February 3 | Political Action of the Week: Fossil Banks? No Thanks! National Day of Action, Friday January 29.
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January 21, 2021. Online Climate Strike Info | Muskoka Drawdown — Food Waste > Food Rescue | Political Action of the Week — BankSwitch | New 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge — Shop Local | Damaging Effects of Winter Salt on Trees — From Muskoka Region.
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January 14, 2021 | No In-Person Climate Strikes until further notice | Take Your Climate Strike Online — BankSwitch Campaign | Brief report on CAM’s latest meeting | Kudos to CAM volunteers from District climate staffer | How to be a Good Ancestor — TED Talk.
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Picture of a group of climate strikers in Huntsville Ontario. December 2020. — January 7, 2021 | We’re baaack! Climate strikes resume tomorrow! And other CAM news. Here’s our latest newsletter. Muskoka Region looks at CAM for 2021 | Invitation to join us for our 2021 planning meeting and BankSwitch campaign presentation Jan 10 | Bet Smith’s new song and video — Forgive You | New 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge: Repair EVERYTHING.
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December 31, 2020 — Happy New Year, everyone! | We will NOT be climate striking tomorrow (January 1) | Make the 50% by 2030 Community Carbon Challenge your New Year’s Resolution | Save the Date—CAM Planning Meeting and BankSwitch Campaign Presentation January 10 | NCSE Drawdown 2021 Conference January 5-9 (Free Jan 7-9) | A Conversation on the Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops, with the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg and leading scientists.
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December 24, 2020 — Happy holidays from all of us at CAM. | We will NOT be climate striking on Friday December 25 or Friday January 1, 2021. | CAM’s Muskoka Drawdown—Green Houses, podcast now available | A New Leaf: Muskoka’s Climate Strategy gets the green light from District Council | Webinar: #GenClimateAction — How youth-led climate litigation is making Canadian legal history.
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December 18, 2020 | Above: Climate change Christmas cartoon from New York Times. | Make Your Own Ugly Holiday Sweater | Political action of the week – Sign Lead Now’s ‘Cancel TMX’ petition | ASHMuskoka Ash Drive this Saturday | Muskoka Watershed Council wants to hear from you! | Update: A New Leaf—Muskoka’s Climate Strategy returns to District Council on December 21.
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