Local Climate Initiatives

The UVic Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders (CCSL) program offers an immersive learning experience for graduate students seeking to advance climate solutions. Bridging across the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and law, this program delivers enriched interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training to prepare the next generation of leaders with the knowledge, experience, and skills needed to rise to the challenge of climate change. We are always looking to partner with Vicotira organizations to deliver novel, community-engaged training opportunitites.

Building a mass movement of everyday people to win solutions the climate crisis, good work, affordability and a liveable future.  Reach out to your local chapter. 

We bring people together to transform our democracy, uphold Indigenous rights and defend the climate, land and water that sustain life in the territories across 'British Columbia' using the power of local communities!

The Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society (GOMPS) formed in 1992 because members of the community were concerned about rapid loss of Čaŋēɫč (lək̓ʷəŋən) or ĆEṈ¸IȽĆ (SENĆOŦEN) or p'hwulhp (HUL'Q'UMI'NUM') also known as Garry oak (scientific name: Quercus garryana) and the associated ecosystem (Kwetlal or ḰȽO,EL). The society is dedicated to the preservation, protection and restoration of Garry oak stands and their natural habitats. We are a BC registered with CRA charitable status. We established a nursery with the goal of growing the next generation of Garry oaks with acorns obtained from the locally adapted Garry oak population.​Our seedlings have been planted as part of many stewardship and restoration projects across the region on public and private lands. Help us steward the urban forest and for locally-adapted Garry oak seedlings that are available by donation. We are 100% volunteer run, grassroots group helping to make a difference. Please join us! 

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We invest in Indigenous/Native founders, with a focus on wealth creation, representation, community benefit, and environmental stewardship. 

The UVic Map Shop is a community-campus initiative dedicated to collaborative place-based learning and mapping. We partner with community organizations to conduct geographic research and mapping.

The Sustainable Fox is a queer led consultation service specializing in intersectional waste reduction strategies.

To offer a space of learning and collaboration for anyone seeking to find a pathway and build skills for climate action. Take a class, microcredential or Certificate program! 

The aim of the Victoria Coolkit is to help local residents better understand and improve the value of green spaces in the city, to provide a new way of understanding the climate crisis at the neighbourhood level, and to bridge individual ideas to neighbourhood-wide actions. The project developed tools and guides to gradually ramp up community engagement through conversations, maps, visioning and action.**Note: the Victoria Coolkit cohort covers the downtown Victoria area, with other Coolkit cohorts running in Vic West, James Bay and South Jubilee