Environmental and Social Action Projects

Current Projects:

•    Great Green Transportation Tuneup
•    Warm up Winter Project - collect scarves, hats, and gloves for the homeless
•    Suds ‘n Socks Project - collect personal care items for the homeless
•    Established and administers the Thompson Environmental Network website
•    Peace and Environment Walk (annual)
•    Christmas Amalgamated - families gather to help pack Christmas hampers (annual)
•    Heifer International - collect money to buy animals to support villages (annual)

Past Projects:

•    Packing hampers at Kamloops Food Bank   
•    Power Up to Power Down - 2011 energy conservation challenge
     •    Challenge Check-list   
•    Energy Conservation Challenge
•    Meatless Monday Challenge
•    Pit Stop - providing meals for homeless people in association with other community       churches (8 years)
•    RAFT - refugee resettlement community group (8 years)
•    Home Water Conservation Challenge
•    Climate Change Rally
•    Climate Change Candlelight Vigil
•    Adopt-a-Road litter cleanup (6 years)
•    Bluebird nest box project (6 years)
•    Ponderosa Pine seedling distribution project
•    Tools for Development - collected tools for distribution to developing countries
•    Backpacks for Russia - collected school supplies & toys (3 years)
•    Gardening at the House of Ruth (2 years)
•    Painting at Elizabeth Fry House
•    Helped establish a labyrinth in Riverside Park and gifted it to the City
•    Helped preserve the position of Chaplain at Royal Inland Hospital
•    Offered public workshops:
     •    David Suzuki Nature Challenge
     •    100 Mile Diet
     •    Voluntary Simplicity
     •    Unplug the Christmas Machine
     •    Seeds of Survival
     •    AIDS Awareness
     •    Sexual Orientation Series