On SATURDAY, MAY 15th at 3pm, Green Neighbours Network (GNN) celebrated its 1st year as an official non-profit organization. We shared our vision and plans for an exciting year ahead, and celebrated our amazing members and volunteers.
The event celebrated GNN’s wonderful volunteers, and GNN’s marvellous members – the individuals, groups, and partners whose passion and energy are making neighbourhoods across the City of Toronto and the GTA greener, healthier, and more sustainable every day. Some of our member group leaders spoke about how their groups started, how they overcame challenges, and about the projects they have underway.
SPEAKERS AT THE EVENT:
Dorte Windmuller from Cliffcrest Butterflyway in Scarborough, will talk about using the power of social media to find volunteers and engage a community to bring back bees, birds and butterflies to the neighbourhood.
Website: https://www.cliffcrestbutterflyway.com/
Saba Khan, one of the trio who founded EnviroMuslims in Mississauga, will talk about starting a group with the goal of educating, engaging and empowering the Canadian Muslim community, and the importance of intersectionality in the realm of sustainability.
Website: http://www.enviromuslims.ca/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enviromuslimscanada/
Our Climate, Our Stories: http://www.enviromuslims.ca/our-climate-our-stories/
Greening Canadian Mosques: https://www.faithcommongood.org/gcm
Beth Szurpicki, representing CanadaReduces.ca, will talk about how the ‘Reduces’ movement in one downtown Toronto neighbourhood leveraged the power of zero waste to scale up in record time.
Website: https://www.canadareduces.ca/
Myrtle Millares from Climate Pledge Collective will share how we can help stop big Canadian Banks from fueling the climate crisis by participating in their Bank Switch campaign.
BankSwitch Sign-Up: https://climatepledgecollective.org/bankswitch
BankSwitch Ads Crowdfunding: https://chuffed.org/project/bankswitch-ads
Ongoing Projects Donations: https://climatepledgecollective.org/donate
Colleen Lynch from ClimateFast’s Kitchen Table Climate Conversations will tell us about this exciting climate conversation program designed to inspire and mobilize in advance of upcoming elections – and how you can get involved. 
Website: https://climateconversations.ca/
YouTube Channel, ClimateFast Action: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClreo1EqWo4r6fcdU7-pUPg
Facebook Group, Kitchen Table Climate Conversations @Climatefast.ca: https://www.facebook.com/climatefast.ca
