Our Legacy. Their Future.
Guy Hanchet 
For Our Grandchildren is acting locally in Peterborough County to persuade the First Nations and Townships to take assertive, appropriate action in implementing their Climate Change Action Plans. It’s important because the emissions from the communities that make up Peterborough County add up to almost the same as the emissions from Peterborough City. But the actions needed … Read more
John O’Brien, Gramps on the Hill and friend of For Our Grandchildren, travelled to Ottawa in September during the week of the speech from the throne. Here is his report and a short video. Some of you may know that Denise, Ann and I travelled to Ottawa for the week of Sept. 21-25 to participate … Read more
Here is how The Globe reported on the work of youth at Mock COP. Between Nov. 19 and Dec. 1 2020 they are running a youth-led, youth-run online conference that will show the world what would happen if young people were the decision makers. They will be following a similar structure to the postponed COP26 climate summit. … Read more
On September 23, county staff presented their report with recommendations for actions to address the climate crisis. The report was in response to a June 24th presentation by For Our Grandchildren and Peterborough Youth Empowerment which requested council to acknowledge the climate emergency and to take concrete action in the area to address it. The … Read more
As of August 24, according to Environment Canada (Peterborough Trent U station https://bit.ly/2AKSbe6) we’ve had 35 days above 30°C. This is well above the previous record of 30 days set in 2016, and we still have the rest of August. This is NOT normal. This is 5 times greater than the yearly average of 6.3 … Read more
On Wednesday, June 24, representatives from 4RG and PYE presented the motion below to Peterborough County to study the possibility of declaring a climate emergency. The motion passed with no changes after a long and largely positive discussion.There was only one vote against, because that Councillor wanted an immediate declaration, not a referral to staff. … Read more
With all the fuss in the world about the Covid 19 crisis, I’ve been thinking a lot about the parallels between it and Climate Change. I’ve been recording my observations when I wake up in a sweat, but I have not added any new ones in a while, so maybe I am done. Here’s what … Read more
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