Are you ready for climate change impacts in your city or town?
CREW to attend CEC’s 2023 Council Session and Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) Public Forum
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is holding the 30th annual Council Session and Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) Public Forum on 28-29 June 2023 in Victoria, British Columbia. The session is organized under the theme of Indigenous and Urban Approached to Climate Adaptation. For nearly 30 years, the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the…
Socially-Connected and Resilient SJT Seniors
Over the last three years, CREW has nurtured vibrant and enthusiastic senior volunteers in St. James Town. This very diverse group is growing, strongly connected to, and working effectively with youth volunteers. The volunteers are engaged with projects that promote physical activities, such as discovery walks, cooking clubs, community gardening groups and at the same…
How Community Catalysts Could Shape Neighbourhood Development and Resilience
Author: Trevor Popoff Sue Gwynn has been working in the field of community advocacy since she was a kid; or at least, that’s what her mother would say. At the start of her career in advocacy, she was defending the small kid in class. Now, inspired by her job at Community Hubs Calgary, she’s introduced…
CREW in St James Town
CREW has been building leadership capacity and volunteer teams in this exceptionally diverse neighbourhood since 2016.
CREW brings people together in workshops, training sessions, door to door outreach, asset mapping, lobby greeting tables, community events, gardening, homework clubs, ESL classes, and more. Learn more about our most recent initiative in St James Town – the Neighbourhood Heatwave Response project.
Core Impacts
Heat & Drought
Floods & Precipitation
Catastrophic Weather
Core Adaptations
Community Actions
Are You Ready?
Food Security
Green Spaces
Social Networks
“Recovery from natural and other disasters does not depend on the overall amount of aid received nor on the amount of damage done by the disaster; instead, social capital – the bonds which tie citizens together – functions as the main engine of long term recovery.”
Daniel Aldrich, 2010
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