May 2025
Earth Day Roundup 2025
Earth Day 2025: For Our Kids Roundup
Every day is Earth Day! This familiar refrain is especially true for our network, as many of our members and supporters are involved in climate action around the year. Still, Earth Day (and Earth Week -- and Earth Month!) presents a special opportunity to reflect, build community, and take collective action. Here's how some of our For Our Kids teams celebrated Earth Day from coast to coast to coast in 2025:
For Our Kids Alberta
This was a busy Earth Month for For Our Kids Alberta, with team members taking action across the province! A few highlights:
- Jaymie tabled at Seniors for Climate Action Now Edmonton’s Earth Day event (which Tylene helped organize).
- Heidi helped lead the Bike Bus Crew in Camrose.
- Miranda presented the Electric School Bus policy (P25-01) at the Alberta School Councils’ Association AGM.
- Claire secured endorsements from 31 organizations for “Protect What Matters: Methane Action for Our Children’s Future” and sent to all federal party leaders.
- The team joined 85 other groups in endorsing “Freshwater in Canada Is Not For Sale,” which calls on federal candidates to prioritize freshwater security and health.
- Helga and Claire spoke about Polluting Education report with trustees at Council of School Councils meeting and encouraged them to take action to kick fossil fuels out of classrooms.
- Will and Trisha advocated against coal mining on the Eastern Slopes at the Alberta Legislature.
For Our Kids Durham
For Our Kids Durham helped lead an Eco-event in Ajax, complete with a clothing swap, bike repair station, eco-art, e-waste collection, and food trucks! Even with the windy weather they had a great turnout.
For Our Kids London
For Our Kids London hosted a table at London Earth Fest, which sees more than 3,000 community members in attendance every year!
For Our Kids Nova Scotia
For Our Kids Nova Scotia co-sponsored a bio-blitz (an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area) at the Antigonish Landing in collaboration with Seniors for Climate Antigonish.
For Our Kids Ottawa-Gatineau
- Shannon and Tyler tabled at the Earth Day Festival in McNabb Park, Ottawa. The festival included activities for kids, live entertainment, free popcorn, and over 20 booths and exhibits. Other activities included live music and drag, a walk through the booths to see the "P-Rex" dinosaur or EnviroCentre's "Ask-an-Arborist" segment, gardening advice from Ottawa's Master Gardeners, discussions on sustainable cities, clothes and food, and meeting federal candidates running in Ottawa Centre.
- Sarah tabled at an Earth Day event at the Hunt Club Community Centre in Ottawa. Activities at the event included bilingual story time, a singalong, an earth ball activity, live music, community garden painting, and a grief and gratitude earth listening circle.
Parents 4 Climate Victoria
- The team hosted a Book Club event with Sarah Marie Wiebe, author of Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency. After the talk, participants made art from linocuts that had been designed to match each of the chapters in the book! They gifted prints to Sarah as a thank you, and plan to now share other prints as a way of encouraging climate action.
- The team also hosted a natural egg dyeing event (who knew that cabbage water makes eggs blue!), plus a Bike Festival where members and friends rode to a local park to celebrate bike culture.
