Date:
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Venue:
Contact:
Mike Youds, AVTTS director at large, 250-682-4698 [email protected]
Port Alberni 2024-2044
Climate change projections
and impacts in the Alberni Valley
Climate change projections
and impacts in the Alberni Valley
Date: February 22nd, 7 pm
Location: Char’s Landing
YouTube Video of the live event https://youtu.be/DP2estd9dfo
MEDIA RELEASE
PORT ALBERNI — As part of its monthly series of public presentations focused on the next 20 years in the Alberni Valley, AV Transition Town Society (AVTTS) hosts a talk on one of the most important issues of our time, climate change.
Climate Change in the Alberni Valley, Feb. 22 at Char’s Landing, brings together a scientist, Dave Reid, and a community-based activist, Desiree Wallace, to talk about climate change projections and impacts.
The two will present climate change projections for the Alberni Valley in the coming decades, including weather, stream flow, drought, ecological and wildfire predictions. They will discuss how these predictions will be felt in the community and affect everyday life across all walks of life.
Earlier today, Feb. 8, 2024, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that global warming has exceeded temperatures of 1.5 Celsius over a 12-month period, the first time this has been recorded. Last year, 2023, was the hottest recorded.
The City of Port Alberni, recognizing the importance of this issue now and into the future, is focussing the relaunch in February of its Official Community Plan (OCP) review on climate change adaptation and growth strategies. Online and direct public engagement are underway throughout the month as the city consults the community.
AVTTS launched its Port Alberni 2044 series of monthly public events in January with the intention to raise public awareness of critical issues affecting Port Alberni over the 20-year outlook of the OCP. A panel discussion Jan. 24, Future of the Somass Lands and Burde Street Developments, drew a standing-room-only crowd to Char’s Landing, indicating a high level of interest in the community.
Other public events in the series will examine a host of other issues including transportation, individual action, co-operatives and alternative economies, and food security.
CONTACT
Mike Youds,
AVTTS director at large,
250-682-4698
BACKGROUND
Our presenters on Feb. 22:
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Dave Reid has a PhD from the department of Geography at UBC with a research background in hydrology and geomorphology focusing on human-caused changes to streams and fish habitat. He has a life-long interest in meteorology and climatology. Reid currently works as a science co-ordinator within DFO’s habitat restoration group.
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Desiree Wallace is a sparky community builder, campaigner, documentary filmmaker and artist who has been up to “good trouble” for more than a decade, largely in climate justice spaces, which has intersected with anti-racism, economic, transformative, healing and disability justice lineages from Peru to Turtle Island to Nepal. Collective liberation is their north star, and they are committed to fervently unlearning, co-struggling and world building towards systems change until everyone is free.
