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What is Voices for Action?
Voices for Action is a series of events hosted by Green Communities Canada. Voices for Action brings together people with diverse lived experiences and professional expertise advancing transformative, equitable, and sustainable change in Canadian communities.
The goal of these events is to share knowledge, resources, ideas, and to connect community-based climate action across Canada, creating a national network of innovation and collaboration that elevates our collective impact.
Canada is a country of different regions, cultures, ethnicities, and needs. Voices for Action celebrates the work we do at Green Communities Canada. We honour, mobilize, and build on the knowledge and capacity rooted in our communities, rooted in environmental justice, and rooted in demonstrating that we have all the solutions we need to address the climate emergency – what we need is dialogue, connection, and collective action from communities across Canada.
Equity and Electric School Buses
Join us for a discussion about how we can seize this pivotal moment for Canada’s transition to low-carbon transportation to alleviate rather than exacerbate inequities. With fewer than 4 per cent of Canada’s 51,000 school buses currently electric, the transition is at a decisive moment. Nearly 70 per cent of those 51,000 buses will be replaced in the next 2-7 years. Now is the time to ensure those buses are replaced with electric counterparts in ways that address rather than reinforce inequities.
Join the authors of our newly released report, “Embedding Equity in Canada’s Transition to Electric School Buses,” as they share their insights and discuss the implications and recommendations raised by this report.
- Date: October 15
- Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET
Past Voices for Action Recordings & Resources:
2025 National Progress Report on Retrofitting Canada's Homes
Growing the Mini Forest Movement in Canada
In January, 2025, Green Communities Canada celebrated the release of our 2024 Living Cities Canada Fund Impact report by hosting a Voices for Action webinar featuring Green Communities Canada’s own Tianna Mighty (Program Coordinator, Green Infrastructure), as well as Professor Tahia Devisscher (Assistant Professor, UBC Faculty of Forestry), Kristen Bill (Project Manager, Forest Health, City of Hamilton), and Sharon MacGougan (President, Garden City Conservation Society), with host Brianna Salmon, Executive Director of GCC.
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