Local Climate Initiatives

Our mission is to promote planetary health among nurses and people in Canada and globally. We achieve this by engaging with advocacy, education, research, practice, and policy at all levels of nursing and society.

Capeless Heroes Consulting helps organizations craft actionable sustainability strategies by bridging the gap between qualitative storytelling and quantitative analysis. We blend creativity, data, and community engagement to design solutions that drive real-world impact and measurable progress.

The Climate Fresk is a workshop that sparks conversations and learning about climate change in an interactive, social, and fun way.

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. 

To cultivate resilient communities, which enable the land and all living beings to thrive.

Enabling and embodying loving responses to the poly-crisis

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! 

Grassroots organization working on and affecting change at the municipal level through outreach, education, staying involved at Council meetings, writing campaigns and more. Contact Pamela pamela@climatehub.ca fire more information.

architecture and engineering firm

NatuR&D is a nature-inspired design company. NatuR&D builds partnerships, facilitates innovation processes, introduces biomimicry to teams, schools and communities.

To catalyze and mobilize research, partnerships, and knowledge that generate climate action. The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions aims to catalyze and mobilize research, partnerships, and knowledge that advance mitigation and adaptation at the intersection of: 1. Justice, Wellbeing, and Biodiversity 2. Policy, Practice, and Technology 3. Communities and Place.

We are a Canada wide not for profit organization working with municipalities and organizations to help them lower GHG emissions by changing their food procurement practices to purposefully include a higher percentage of plant-based food.

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 RUSH Initiative is a scalable map for people to explore the risks and fixes to long term health in their neighbourhood.  From climate readiness to a sense of belonging, our goal is rapid resilience in record time.

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! 

To educate and inspire the next generation of learners.

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

Climate Paradigm Collaborative is an Interdisciplinary organization specializing in embedding regenerative principles into modern organizations. CPC engages in this work through small group facilitation, climate coaching, game design, event planning, and modernizing the way organizations approach social & environmental impact.