March 2026
For Our Kids Vancouver winter updates
For Our Kids Vancouver winter updates
It has been a busy winter for the For Our Kids Vancouver team! Here are some highlights:
Empowering Kids through Climate Education
Last summer, For Our Kids Vancouver and CAPE (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) sent an open letter to the BC Minister of Education, Lisa Beare, advocating for mandatory climate education in our public schools. They delivered the letter with over 175 signatories, including organizations representing over 53,000 people!
In October 2025, members of For Our Kids and CAPE met with a representative of the Ministry of Education. The meeting was productive, and a follow-up meeting will happen in March.
In the meantime, the team invites you to send a letter to Minister Beare advocating for climate education for BC students! And if you'd like to join the climate education team, contact the For Our Kids Vancouver organizers.
MP Meeting on Fictional West Coast Pipeline that Guts Key Climate Policies
A group of parents met with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, MP Wade Grant, on January 14, 2026. They shared their concerns about the Alberta-Canada MOU gutting hard fought climate plans and the need to build the economy of the future and listen to expert advice.
MP Grant offered to connect the volunteers to more Liberal MPs in the Climate Caucus. Stay tuned for updates.
AI and Climate Change - A People's Consultation
On February 28, For Our Kids Vancouver hosted a workshop in collaboration with Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces (PACES) to respond to the People's Consultation on AI.
PACES Vancouver is a spin-off from a group based in NYC that have had some success in campaigning for a 2-year moratorium on AI in classrooms. PACES Vancouver has launched this petition: Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board.
Read-Your-Own Book Club Meeting
The team hosted a great book club meeting last month, discussing ideas from Gal Beckerman's "The Quiet Before." The book describes the need for "incubation" as the essential first stages of radical change: "the incubation of radical new ideas is a very distinct process with certain conditions: a tight space, lots of heat, passionate whispering and a degree of freedom to argue and work toward a common, focused aim."
Interested in attending future book club meetings? Contact the organizers!
Strategic Planning Process
Toward the end of the month, the team brought on former For Our Kids staffer Lorna Pelly to facilitate a strategic planning session, which launched a month of "incubation." The goal of the process is to connect the dots between climate change and the chaos happening in the world right, and to collaborate on how the team can most be helpful in advancing climate justice.
