ANNOUNCEMENTS
Communications Committee
DOCUMENT LINKS
Use these quick links to reach our internal committee documents
Latest News
Your Resource for Local Climate Questions & Action
If you’re wondering what’s going on in Lanark with Climate Action and how you can contribute, consider this: municipal governments control or influence half of all greenhouse gas emissions produced locally. .. Read More
Natural Solutions = Climate Solutions
Nature-Based Climate Solutions (NBCS) are local solutions that take advantage of nature’s systems to provide multiple economic, environmental and social benefits. They provide mitigation and adaptation strategies to address the climate crisis, particularly...
Our Most Precious Resource – The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Scott Hortop, Hilary Moore and Janet Duncan are three members of CNL's Farms Working Group, who are bringing farms into the conversation about Climate Action. ... read more
The Last Generation to Act on Climate Change
“I am inspired by empowered young people coming to realize our place in the world as the last generation to challenge Climate Change and environmental injustices,” says Ahlena Sultana-McGarry, one of the facilitators of Climate Network Lanark’s Youth for Climate...
100 Years of Electricity
The Era’s ‘100 years ago’ page last month showed that after a referendum to see whether Lanark wanted to ‘be electrified’ nine householders signed up to have their homes wired - at their own expense! – so they could hook up to the hydro service. Things went pretty...
Join CNL’s Youth Climate Justice Group
Climate Network Lanark, with training support from the David Suzuki Foundation’s Future Ground Network, will be starting a local Youth Climate Justice group for 13-19 year olds. ... read more
Leave them with Scott!
Would you like your fall leaves to be used to help Almonte area farmers regenerate healthy soil? As part of my personal attempt to address the climate emergency, I have been learning from the work of a professor in New Mexico how to produce a very special type of...
Learn to Love the Carbon Tax
One thing that we and the planet can benefit from is the widely misunderstood Carbon Tax. If you feel a negative response to this tool for lowering our carbon emissions, here is the perspective from two climate activists, one living in our largest city, and one living...
Front Yard Homesteading
Driving or walking around town, I am struck by the number of households that have chosen to rip up the front lawn and replace it with all manner of vegetables, shrubs and flowers. I like to think of these innovative individuals as a new kind of homesteader, breaking...
Meet Local Climate Leader Sue Brandum
Sue Brandum is a local climate leader who has been instrumental in creating the Climate Network Lanark (full name Climate Action Network of Lanark County, Smiths Falls and Region). In this month’s column, she talks about her background, how she came to be so involved...
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Network is to connect, coordinate, facilitate, initiate and support collaborative efforts and actions by and for the community to address the impacts of climate change through both mitigation and adaptation.
OUR VISION
An engaged community, committed to building a low-carbon and resilient place to live, work and play and where the natural ecosystems on which all life depends are valued and conserved.