GTEC Canada

09/28/2026

Register for this free event!

🌟 Hear from your Vancouver Mayoral 2026 Candidates 🌟
Register your spot: https://community-mayoral-dialogue.eventbrite.ca

On October 1st, meet your Vancouver mayoral candidates at our FREE event - held at John Oliver Secondary School.

📢 Hear what candidates have to say about what matters to you

🗳️ Learn about how to vote

🌍 Meet your neighbours and your community

October 1st, 2026 | John Oliver Secondary School Auditorium
4:30PM Symposium | 5:30pm Dialogue

We have invited mayoral candidates from all 5 civic political parties: ABC Vancouver, Vancouver Liberals, Green Party of Vancouver, TEAM & Vote Vancouver. Mayor Ken Sim has declined our invitation.

Invite your friends, family, neighbours and we can't wait to see you all there!

09/10/2026

Yesterday some of our team attended the Seniors' Climate Witness climate caravan launch in Vancouver. Supporters, including David Suzuki and the Suzuki Elders, gave a rousing send off to the caravan, now headed to Kamloops.

Read more about the caravan and see more pictures here:
https://gteccanada.ca/seniors-climate-caravan/

Seniors For Climate

09/08/2026

Scenes from this past weekend's Healthy Climate Solutions Fair (Sept 5, 2026). Were you there too?

More pictures in our blog:
https://gteccanada.ca/healthy-climate-solutions-fair-2026/

07/09/2026

Join the Intergenerational Climate Arts Collaborative for their arts builds on July 25th and August 29th!

Are you a New West resident who cares about climate change and wants to take playful action with like-minded people? Join the Intergenerational Climate Arts Collaborative for our arts builds on July 25th and August 29th from 12:30-3:30 at 529 Queens Ave. Come sing, dance, write, play music and/or paint to prepare for a Flash Mob performance in September! Bring your instruments, your friends, and your creativity!

RSVP now: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-arts-build-with-the-intergenerational-climate-arts-collaborative-tickets-1991940125537

07/08/2026

Join Food Stash Foundation for this conversation about food waste and food insecurity. More details below!

As part of PNW Climate Week, Food Stash Foundation is hosting an evening that connects two urgent issues: food waste and food insecurity.

In Canada, 47% of the food we produce is never eaten, and if food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. At the same time, 1 in 4 Canadian households experience food insecurity, a problem rooted in poverty that surplus food alone can't solve.

Join us team for a conversation on how these issues show up locally in Vancouver, followed by interactive breakout groups where we'll brainstorm action at every level - from small changes in our own kitchens to advocacy for bigger systemic change.

🗓️ Monday, July 13 | 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Food Stash Foundation
Registration required — details here: https://luma.com/t0emgx92

We hope to see you there!

06/03/2026

Did you know that June 3 is Canada’s Clean Air day (first Wed of June)? Lets take a moment to reflect on the importance of clean air, for our health, environment and economy.

Climate change is causing longer, drier summers (and springs!), and this leads to increased wildfire risk.

In 2024 and 2025, GTEC presented the “Preparing Your Organization for the Wildfire Season” webinar and in 2025, we created a “Wildfire and Smoke Preparation” kit. The Kit provides useful materials to community social services organizations and health care sectors as they face wildfires and smoke.

You can view the Webinar and download the Wildfire and Smoke Preparation kit for free on GTEC’s Resources page:
https://gteccanada.ca/resources/

Photo credit: Terry Stone, B.C. Interior, 2024

06/02/2026

Canadian Environment Week highlights the collective action we are taking to build a healthier, more sustainable future.

GTEC hopes to contribute by opening Canada’s first Climate Response Centre as a pop-up at Arbutus Neighbourhood House in Fall 2026.

Learn how climate change is impacting your neighbourhood and discover actions that you can take through compelling art installations in the Neighbourhood in the 21st Century exhibit.

https://gteccanada.ca/neighbourhood-in-the-21st-century-exhibit/

Students at the Fraser Academy have created powerful narratives and visual images for the exhibit that illustrate how students see their world now and in the future.

Photo credit: Brandon Young, “Call to Action” Evening with Miranda Massie fundraising event April 15, 2026

06/02/2026

As some cities in Metro Vancouver are experiencing temperatures nearing 30C this afternoon, notice of Stage 3 Water Restrictions has been announced too.

Stage 3 restrictions will begin June 8 (refer to graphic for more details).
https://metrovancouver.org/services/water/water-restrictions

06/01/2026

05/26/2026

This is not the new normal!

Vancouver Island's snowpack is at 11% of normal. The Okanagan is at a record low. The Gulf Islands are asking visitors to bring their own drinking water.

This is what happens when we treat watersheds as an afterthought. Healthy forests hold snowpack longer. Functioning wetlands recharge aquifers. Connected floodplains buffer against both floods and droughts. None of this is new, it's just been ignored.

We've spent decades clearcutting the forests that catch and store snow, draining the wetlands that filter and bank water, and charging industrial water users next to nothing for a resource that families, farmers and fish all depend on.
BC has the tools to turn this around. Restoring functioning watersheds isn't just good for the environment, it's drought-proofing. It's flood defence. It creates jobs.

And it's a lot cheaper than the economic hit that comes when the Okanagan w**e industry, South Coast agriculture, and Vancouver Island tourism all face water scarcity at the same time.

We don't have to accept this as the new normal. But we do have to stop pretending that shorter showers are a water strategy.

Read the full story here: https://www.codebluebc.ca/media-links