Tag: Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative

Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative Potluck, 6:30pm on Thursday 8 January 2026 at REEP House

Happy New Year everyone

We hope this season has been full of fun and family (as well as snow). WRCC is starting off the new year with an IN PERSON only potluck celebration. Our summer potluck was a huge success, and REEP House will keep us warm and dry as we eat, network, share successes, and think about the future.

IN-PERSON ONLY at REEP House, 20 Mill Street in Kitchener. Please come unscented.

If you are able, please bring a vegetarian or vegan potluck dish to share (with serving utensils); and if you are able, your own dishes and beverage (water is available).

WRCC continues to grow and evolve, and we welcome your input on how we help facilitate working together to achieve our mutual goals of building a just and climate resilient community. For example, our Advocacy Committee has been hard at work building a strategy to connect with other environment, sustainability, and social justice communities across the region to strategize around the October 2026 municipal elections. WRCC is making plans to facilitate collaboration both within our network, and beyond – as we are conscious of how climate connects with so many other issues in our region.

In addition to time for networking and sharing your organizations projects and events on Thursday, we hope to have initial informal conversations to gauge interest around election organizing. For those that are interested, we plan to follow up by convening a separate election-focused gathering in February.

Happy New Year,
And hope to see you January 8th.

Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative (blue letters on a pale background, the WRCC logo to the right, a blue square with stylized diagonal lines representing a tree)

Earth Day Celebration — Special Screening of Beyond Crisis at KPL, Tuesday 22 April 2025 at 5:30pm

What: Film Screening: Beyond Crisis a story of hope for a rapidly changing world (Movie poster showing a man sitting on the roof of a barn, with water nearly up to the peak of the roof. There are several award logos at the bottom of the poster, and credits below that (both too small to make out at this resolution) Beyond Crisis
When: 5:30pm to 7:30pm on Tuesday 22 April 2025
Where: Kitchener Public Library, Main Branch, Auditorium
Location: 85 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Ontario Map
Register:Eventbrite Tickets

In honour of this year’s Earth Day, Kai Reimer-Watts has arranged a special screening of his 2018 documentary Beyond Crisis. You and your friends are warmly invited to this rare, free public screening of a powerful Canadian documentary on climate! Please register in advance so we can keep track of numbers, and share widely.

The event hosted by our local MPP Aislinn Clancy, and held in the film theatre at Kitchener Public Library (Main Branch, 85 Queen Street North). The one-hour documentary will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker (Kai) and MPP Aislinn Clancy. There will also be light food and refreshments. It is a non-partisan event for the broader community, to draw attention to climate change at this crucial time here in Canada, and while we are in a federal election.

Also, if you haven’t yet, please check out the Vote for Climate campaign led by the Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative! Non-partisan lawn and window signs are still available this election.

About the film

Beyond Crisis was a three-year filmmaking adventure led by Canadian climate activists, seeking to capture growing movements for change here in Canada and around the world advocating for bold climate action and a just response to the climate crisis. It launched at Princess Twin Cinema in Waterloo in 2018, and has since been screened in festivals, theatres, classrooms and community venues around the world, as a galvanizing story of our current ‘climate moment’ and the many possibilities we have for collective response. While it remains honest about the gravity of climate change, it is ultimately an uplifting and inspiring film about people, and the power of people to transform our realities and together forge brighter futures. It is highly artistic, creative and meditative in sections, and packed with insights from over 50 changemakers – many of whom are Canadian.

The film is only one hour long, split into five connected chapters: The Language of Change; A Dangerous Addiction; Feelings of Change; A Brighter Future; and Building a Movement. Each chapter has its own areas of focus, and together, they tell the story of many thousands of people all over the world working to change our current climate reality for the better. The film was designed in this way to keep chapters short, and to better stimulate ongoing audience engagement and community dialogue after each screening. Kai has received many positive responses by viewers on the film, its emotional/intellectual impact, and unique structure. You can check out the trailer on YouTube to see if it resonates with you.

Thank you for your ongoing support for Divest WaterlooDivest Waterloo and for your part in our collective action to raise awareness and engage our community on issues related to climate change, our pursuit of a low carbon economy, and our movement towards a just and sustainable future.

Workshop on Election Collaboration by Waterloo Region Climate Collaboration, 7pm on Thursday 14 November 2024 at WLU

What: Workshop on Election Collaboration Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative (logo of a green fern-like leaf on a blue background)
When: 7:00pm to 9:00pm, Thursday 14 November 2024
Where: Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr. Alvin Woods Building (DAWB), room 2-104.
Location: 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
Contact for Registration and Parking: Alex Latta alatta@wlu.ca

Dear Waterloo Region Climate Collaborative participants,

With both federal and provincial elections on the horizon, the time for collaboration is now!

Our next WRCC meeting will be a workshop on election collaboration, and we are reaching out to our network members with the message that we need your participation now more than ever. 

  • For regular attendees at monthly meetings: Can you bring along someone new from your organization?
  • For organizations without regular attendance: We hope you will consider attending this one; the more groups represented, the stronger we all are!  

We are aiming for more synergy, not more work! Here are our key questions for the workshop:

  • What is your organization already doing or planning to do to boost attention on climate policy in the lead-up to elections?
  • How can we better collaborate across the climate advocacy community to reach new audiences and achieve maximum climate impact on election outcomes?

An aerial photo of the Wilfrid Laurier University campus showing places to park and directions to transit.
Parking and Transit at WLU

Directions: See the map for directions to parking, and from parking to the building.

Parking passes: Please request 2+ business days in advance to receive a pass via email:  alatta@wlu.ca

Save the date and let us know you’re planning to attend! Email Alex Latta (alatta@wlu.ca) to confirm plans to attend, to order a parking pass, or if you have any questions.