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‘Un-Trashy’ Talk – May 15 2023

Time: 6:30pm – 9:00 pm
Zoom login email: [email protected]

Tara McKenna, a Social Influencer and Blogger will help us learn to reduce waste, and find inspiration to live with less while saving money and eating healthier. Creator of The Zero Waste Collective and the author of Don’t be Trashy: A Practical Guide to Living With Less Waste and More Joy.

Tara has been interviewed extensively on these topics by radio and television including CBC NewsNetwork, The Social and Telus Talks. Look for her interviews on YouTube. Although always environmentally conscious, Tara’s travels were the biggest eye-opener to our global trash problem. From snorkelling with trash in Bali, Indonesia, to picking up litter on trails in Southern Ontario, Canada, it became obvious that waste is a worldwide issue.

Fracking the Peace – Apr 17 2023

Fracking for gas is BC’s major climate problem. Extraction poisons air, land and water, but BC plans to double the number of wells and pipelines for export to Alberta and the US. North Americans are already the worst emitters of carbon per person in the world and fail to abide by commitments to reduce it.

Kiki Wood, Senior Oil and Gas Campaigner, Stand.Earth

Monday, April 17, 2023
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Zoom Meeting

Zoom: for login email [email protected]

Guests welcome

Celebrate Earth Day with Elizabeth May

A Conversation with MP Elizabeth May about Climate Change
Great Hall, Kiwanis Garden Village 975 21 St. West Vancouver
April 14, 2023 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Community residents and environmental advocates alike will have the opportunity to hear in person from a prominent leader in the fight against climate change, MP Elizabeth May. As one of Canada’s foremost experts on environmental policy, Elizabeth May has spent decades advocating for strong and decisive action on climate change. Her tireless efforts have helped to put this important issue at the forefront of public discourse and have driven the creation of numerous policies and initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting our planet’s fragile ecosystems.

The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), West Vancouver is hosting this free Community Event from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on Friday April 14, 2023 at the Great Hall, Kiwanis Garden Village 975 21 St. West Vancouver to celebrate Earth Day 2023.

Everyone is Welcome

Beyond Consumerism to Well-being

Our Monday, November 21, meeting features Dr. Kimberley Naqvi, who is an instructor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.

She has lectured extensively in human geography, including urban, cultural, social, economic, environment, energy, regional and world geography, and has published on development geography and place-based teaching and learning.

Guests are welcome to attend. The 7 pm – 9 pm meeting is on Zoom. For login instructions email: [email protected]

Health Impacts + Climate Change

Our Monday, September 19 meeting features Craig Brown who is the Climate Change and Health Lead at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). In today’s presentation Craig will focus on climate change in BC and its importance to community health and the health system. He will cover topics such as the Heat Dome and Atmospheric River events of 2021, the HealthADAPT project and VCH’s continued work and strategic planning on health adaptation. He will conclude his presentation with an outline of best and promising practices in the field.

As a planner, Craig Brown supports climate change adaptation projects in the health sector, with a strong emphasis on community collaboration. He is also an author on national and international climate assessments, including the IPCC Sixth Assessment report, and an associate faculty member at Royal Roads University in the Master of Arts in Climate Action Leadership program.

The meeting starts at 7 pm on Zoom. Email: [email protected] for login instructions.

Women with Wings

April 19, 2022 – Women with Wings – Ruth Payne, former Ferry Building gallery director.

We hope you’ll come and join our Zoom presentation by Ruth Payne.will introduce us to the Women With Wings travel program, emphasizing Bali, Santa Fe, and Mexico.

To register for the Zoom meeting email [email protected].

An intrepid world traveler, Ruth likes nothing better than introducing people to the art, culture, cuisine, and history of her favorite destinations. Since driving a ’64 Saab from Amsterdam to Kathmandu in 1971, Ruth’s passion for unique cultural discoveries has taken her to Bhutan, Tibet, Afghanistan, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Morocco, Mexico, Cuba,  and South America. Ruth has led art and architecture tours to Italy, Bali, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Mexico, and Santa Fe. With a wealth of knowledge from a 37 year career in the visual arts, and her engaging, caring, and organized manner Ruth ensures her tour participants a unique, enriching, and exceptional travel experience. Ruth leads tours through Women With Wings Travel.

To the Ends of the Earth with Ted Scambos

Dr. Ted Scambos will be making his second talk to CFUW, on Tuesday, 22 February, at 7 pm on Zoom, about his research and adventures in Antarctica.  Dr. Scambos is associated with the University of Colorado in Boulder, and he travels every other year to Antarctica to further his research and measurements of the continent’s ice sheet and glaciers.

This year, Dr. Scambos will present “To The Ends of the Earth:  Field Work at the Edge of Antarctica’s Ice Sheet.  He will also address ice in a warming world and discuss how changes in Antarctica and Greenland will affect our coasts. 

Dr.Scambos will return to Colorado at the end of January after 3 months away in quarantine and on the southernmost continent. He will continue to thaw at his home near Boulder and look forward to warmer adventures.

To register for the Zoom meeting email [email protected].

Empowerment: Education of Girls and Women Going Forward – 21 January, 2022

SAVE THE DATE!

UN International Day of Education, 24 January, 2022

In recognition of this important date, the Canadian Federation of University Women: St. Catharines and West Vancouver Clubs invite GWI members from around the world to a conversation about the impact of the pandemic on the education of girls and women.

This conversation began a dialogue that continued during 3 Focus Groups hosted for UNESCO, by GWI, on January 24. The discussions explored current problems facing girls’ education and identified possible solutions.