On Oct. 24th, Laura Bamsey, from the British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association, led us in “Cool It! Climate Leadership Training”. We played games, discussed ideas for making change, and created our very own safe and sustainable cleaning solution. 

Here is the link to where you can login to do the carbon quiz and then start the contest! Submit once a week for the next 4 weeks! www.climatecool.org. 

Here is a link to online instructions.

Here are some links to activities and resources you might be interested during your challenge!

Local/Organic Food

Find a farmers market 

http://www.bcfarmersmarket.org/

Westcoast seeds catalogue https://www.westcoastseeds.com/garden-resources/request-catalogue/

Dirty Dozen https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty_dozen_list.php#.Wl5_X4XxO80 (mentioned in the workshop)

Energy 

To recycle lights such as CFLs, LightRecycle  https://www.lightrecycle.ca/collection-site-locator/

BC Sustainable Energy Association (bcsea)

http://www.bcsea.org

https://www.bcsea.org/cool-it/resources

Climate Change

Earth Future

http://www.earthfuture.com/theclimatechallenge/downloads/Teachers_Guide.pdf

Go Bio 

Queen of Green Cleaning recipes https://davidsuzuki.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/queen-of-green-green-cleaning-recipes.pdf (mentioned in the workshop)