CALP UBC

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Register by Oct 11, 2024

🌍 Announcing the return of the Climate Action & Community Engagement (CACE) Micro-certificate this October 2024! 🌍

Are you a community leader, educator, or NGO looking to enhance your skills in climate engagement? This unique online program from UBC’s Faculty of Forestry and the CALP action research group is for you!

🌱 Learn to foster collective action and prepare communities for climate extremes, while helping to meet crucial carbon emission targets. customize your own community engagement plan with ‘cool’ visual learning tools! Don’t miss this chance to make a difference!

Limited spots available—secure your place today! Register by October 11th at
➡️ https://bit.ly/4gr94cF


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UBC Vancouver’s Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam people.

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Oct 11, 2024

📢 Ready to take action on climate change? 🌎✨

🚨The Climate Action & Community Engagement (CACE) Micro-certificate is back this October! 🚨

This unique online program from the UBC Faculty of Forestry’s CALP action research group is designed for practitioners, community leaders, educators and more to sharpen their skills in engaging communities to scale up local climate solutions.

🌱 Learn how to inspire collective action and build climate resilience in your community with ‘cool’ visual learning tools and proven processes!

Join us this fall to be part of the solution. 💡 Limited spots available, register by October 11th!!

https://bit.ly/4gr94cF to learn more and sign up!

🌍 Announcing the return of the Climate Action & Community Engagement (CACE) Micro-certificate this October 2024! 🌍

Are you a community leader, educator, or NGO looking to enhance your skills in climate engagement? This unique online program from UBC’s Faculty of Forestry and the CALP action research group is for you!

🌱 Learn to foster collective action and prepare communities for climate extremes, while helping to meet crucial carbon emission targets. customize your own community engagement plan with ‘cool’ visual learning tools! Don’t miss this chance to make a difference!

Limited spots available—secure your place today! Register by October 1st at
➡️ https://bit.ly/4gr94cF


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UBC Vancouver’s Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam people.

📣 EXCITING (but bittersweet) NEWS!

Our amazing colleague and friend, Cheryl Ng, is leaving UBC for an exciting new role! Many of you know Cheryl as the Project Lead of Cool ‘Hood Champs and Instructor for the Climate Action and Community Engagement Micro-Certificate. She's been working hard since 2019 on scaling up neighbourhood-based climate action programs across Vancouver and Canada, and has loved every moment of her interactions and partnerships with all of you!

Starting May 1st, Cheryl will be the Planning Engagement Coordinator at the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, but as we like to say here, "once a CALPie, always a CALPie!" Cheryl will still be in Vancouver and reachable through LinkedIn (LinkedIn.com/in/cherylngg). So, don’t hesitate to connect or reach out to her! She would love to stay in touch with you and hear all about your exciting projects! 😊

📣 EXCITING NEWS!

Our amazing colleague and friend, Cheryl Ng, is leaving UBC for an exciting new role! Many of you know Cheryl as the Project Lead of Cool ‘Hood Champs and Instructor for the Climate Action and Community Engagement Micro-Certificate. She's been working hard since 2019 on scaling up neighbourhood-based climate action programs across Vancouver and Canada, and has loved every moment of her interactions and partnerships with all of you!

Starting May 1st, Cheryl will be the Planning Engagement Coordinator at the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, but as we like to say here, "once a CALPie, always a CALPie!"

Cheryl will still be in Vancouver and reachable through LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/cherylngg). So, don’t hesitate to reach out to her! She would love to stay in touch with you and hear all about your exciting projects! 😊

Happy March ⛅️ Our March newsletter is here! Check your inboxes to find new opportunities and some interesting climate reads!

Apply Now to the Climate Action and Community Engagement Micro-Certificate! -

Apply Now to the Climate Action and Community Engagement Micro-Certificate!

The results from our first cohort of Climate Action and Community Engagement (CACE) micro-certificate program are out! We would like to thank everyone for an amazing 8 weeks where we all learned and expanded our skill sets together ✨

CACE is offered twice a year with the next opportunity beginning February 13th! 💚 Applications are open now! Click the link in our bio or visit forestry.ubc.ca/cace for more information 😊

Happy Winter! ❄️ Check out this issue for tips on how to stay warm this winter while keeping https://mailchi.mp/9e65a81bfa48/calp-newsletter-december

🧑‍💼Are you looking to expand your skills and develop your career in climate engagement, sustainability planning, environmental consultancy, climate risk/adaptation management?
🪵Are you part of a sustainability-oriented business seeking to play a positive role in the community and better your organization’s environmental and social impact?
🏡Are you interested in engaging with your community on climate action or launching your own climate action program within your community?

Our team at CALP has designed the Climate Action and Community Engagement (CACE) program to offer a fully guided process, backed by science and policy tailored to your own context, on how to plan and implement your own climate action project. This program will challenge professionals and community champions from diverse sectors to build professional and personal capacities to work effectively in the emerging field of community engagement at the grassroots level.

The CACE Micro-Certificate is an 8-week online program offered twice a year. The upcoming session will be from February 13 to April 28, 2023. Applications close February 10, 2023 so be sure to sign up soon! Visit forestry.ubc.ca/cace to find out more 😊

November’s issue is here! Find out what we’ve been up to this month. 🍂

Featuring our very own CALP Engagement Coordinator Cheryl Ng! Check out this podcast on neighbourhood climate action 😀

Episode 25: Cool Hood Champs & Neighbourhood Climate Action Champions / Eating and Growing Green - The sustainably.eco Podcast This month we speak with Cheryl Ng from the University of British Columbia's Cool Hood Champs program and Julie Salter-Keane from the City of Kingston about their Neighbourhood Climate Action Champions initiative. We also spoke with Janette Haase...