Climate Action

Save the date! Green Venture’s second annual Clean Air Day will be held on June 5th from 4-7:00pm at the fourth floor of Hamilton Central Public Library. Come visit our engaging booths, cycle for a smoothie, participate in activities, view Hamilton students’ video projects and bring your damaged clothing or items to our repair cafe to … Read more

Litigation is an important act of climate advocacy with mixed results in Canada and elsewhere.  Youth legal action over Ontario government’s climate targets A group of young Canadians is challenging Ontario’s roll back of relatively progressive climate targets.  https://environmentjournal.ca/nextgen-perspectives-youth-legal-action-over-ontario-governments-climate-inaction/ A successful litigation by American youth A group of 16 American youth won a climate case … Read more

Join Elders for Climate Sanity and 350 Hamilton at Art Crawls  These groups will have tables in front of the Cathedral on James St. N on the second Friday of the month during Art Crawls. They are building a Green Hub with various groups to disseminate information on the destructive plans to build highway 413, … Read more

This month, we continue our focus on opportunities for youth engagement in Climate Action and successful youth-led organizations. Green Venture Youth-Led Seedling Sales May 11, 2024:10am-2pm  At Laidlaw United Church during SEW HUNGRY on Ottawa Street Address: 155 Ottawa Street North Find our table of veggie and herb seedlings, along with our Alley Planting and … Read more

  How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein with Rebecca Stefoff. Recommended for ages 9 to 12. Naomi Klein’s eighth book is her first written specifically for young readers, adapting over twenty years of reporting and research on climate change and the movements that … Read more