2020 WINS ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT THANK YOU WELCOME SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “COVID-19 has reawakened We’re thrilled to announce with her Haida family, elders and Last year was like no other. You stood behind 15 young people in a You built an online organizing societies to some stark that Severn Cullis-Suzuki — younger generations in efforts toward lawsuit claiming their rights to a safe platform to mobilize and support a environmental activist, speaker, continuation of the Haida language. Around the world, humanity realities. That nature is the and healthy future, and calling on the wave of grassroots groups, so they can television host, author and long- collectively acted to address the bottom line. That Living close to the land on Haida federal government to develop and pass advance environmental solutions and time Foundation board member COVID-19 pandemic. We supported and information are crucial Gwaii, she sees clearly that Earth’s a climate emergency recovery plan. protect nature in their communities. — will formally begin her role front line workers — and each other. to our survival. That we are climate is drastically changing. She as our executive director in We put on masks, stayed physically You powered a guide to help residents These are your wins. And they show knows it’s time for “all hands on deck” all connected. And that we September 2021. distant and slowed our frenetic pace. work with municipal councils to how when we work together — even have agency — each of our and joins the Foundation to continue achieve much-needed climate targets. in the face of multiple crises — we Daughter to Tara Cullis and the fight for social and ecological Greenhouse gas emissions dropped as actions matter. These are all can achieve real results toward a David Suzuki, Severn became an justice, and for a transformation to a people flew and drove less. Polluted skies You supported a growing movement tenets of the David Suzuki sustainable future. environmental activist as a child, just, post-carbon economy. and waters cleared. Nature rejoiced. for a green and just post-pandemic Foundation. And this is why organizing with classmates and recovery that pushes Canada to restore Thank you again for your trust and Despite the difficulties, the tens of I believe this organization speaking publicly to decision-makers, and conserve the natural systems that support. Together, we’re working to thousands of caring supporters in our can play a critical role in asking them to act to protect the are critical to human well-being and protect nature’s diversity and the community — who make everything future, and to make their actions invest in a safer, sustainable future. well-being of all life, now and for the our transformation from an here possible — stood with us reflect their words. future, and helping people in Canada unjust, carbon economy to through it all. You read, shared, You helped argue Canada’s act every day on the understanding one of clean energy, justice Since then, she has continued as discussed, petitioned, spoke up, joined right, in a climate emergency, that we are one with nature. and well-being. This is a an advocate and communicator for and donated. Thank you. to apply an effective national intergenerational justice, calling on all approach to climate policy — When we face crises, collective action moment for all of us to step Your enduring generosity and refusal institutions and individuals to address including a national price on carbon matters more than ever. up and help shift humanity to give up makes us strong, credible and humanity’s role in pollution — in the Supreme Court. toward survival. I’m going to and resilient. With your help, we I look forward to our continued do all I can to contribute.” the sixth mass extinction. marked 30 years as an organization You supported scores of volunteer partnership in 2021. Severn joins us from Haida Gwaii, in 2020. Our policy successes, public Butterflyway Rangers planting ~SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI where she has been deeply engaged engagement accomplishments — our highways of habitat to feed and very existence — are because of you. shelter essential pollinators. This report highlights just a few of You convinced government to shut the many achievements you helped down salmon farms that threaten wild Ian Bruce, Acting Executive Director make possible in 2020. salmon populations. 2 3 2020 WINS CLIMATE

“The COVID-19 crisis is going to pass. And when it does, we cannot go on the way were before the crisis hit. We have to take the warnings that came out, and begin to act.” DAVID SUZUKI

PHOTO: ROBIN LOZNAK GIVING YOUTH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A LIFETIME

In fall 2020, you helped make it to be heard in a higher court before possible for 15 young people to head proceeding to trial. He said the “Whatever happens, we to Canada’s Federal Court. Their goal: questions raised “are so political that will not make it possible for force urgent and effective climate the Courts are incapable or unsuited to them to keep threatening our action. deal with them.” ability to live. There is just no The youth plaintiffs are desperately The young plaintiffs are disappointed other option.” concerned about the world they’re but determined. And so are we. ALBERT inheriting. They’re too young to vote. Climate disruption is NOT just a They have no say in the political political issue. It’s a matter of survival. “I’m concerned for my future, decisions made today that will affect the future of the world and all their tomorrows. The courts are These climate champions remain the future of Canada if we steadfastly determined. Your their only recourse. continue to act like we are generosity in 2020 helped amplify The La Rose et al case argues that now. I need this case to their voices. Your continued support the federal government is violating continue for the safety of all will back their next step: the Federal the plaintiffs’ rights to life, liberty Court of Appeal. the young people in Canada. and security of the person and that But this case is not over. We Canada’s conduct violates their rights “If courts can’t rule in favour of justice, young people will never stop then who can?” asked Albert, one of to equality, since the climate crisis fighting for our future.” disproportionately affects them. the plaintiffs. SADIE Impacts they experience include It’s a long road ahead. But with your help, coastal erosion destroying family we’ll continue to support these young “We won’t be dissuaded. I, property, asthma worsened by wildfire people. Their future depends on it. along with my co-plaintiffs, smoke, illness transmitted by insects More than 6,800 members of our will continue to fight for the whose ranges have been expanded by community sent heartfelt messages of charter rights of all Canadian global heating, and crippling anxiety support to these brave young people. and Indigenous youth to hold about the dying planet. Add yours here: davidsuzuki.org/ Canada accountable.” action/support-la-rose-youth-climate- On October 27, Justice Michael D. SOPHIA Manson ruled their case would need lawsuit-plaintiffs/. PHOTO: GREEN ENERGY FUTURES 4 5 HELPING PEOPLE CREATE CLIMATE-READY MUNICIPALITIES

“What our cities do • Envision the future they want for influence over about 50 per cent of individually and in unison their community. the country’s emissions. to address climate change • Learn about the big solutions that Residents’ voices are powerful. can set the agenda for will help reduce emissions. Elected council members are communities and responsible to their constituents. • Understand how local governments Thanks to you, this online guide will governments everywhere.” work and how to work with them. help connect like-minded people so ~ C40 CITIES CLIMATE • Connect with like-minded climate they can work together. LEADERSHIP GROUP* advocates where they live. *The 97 C40 Cities represent more than • Stay inspired with stories from 700 million people and one-quarter of Canada is not on track to meet its communities throughout Canada. the global economy. , Toronto commitment to reduce emissions About 80 per cent of people in Canada and Montreal are members. by 50 per cent by 2030. To meet the live in municipalities, which have Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5 C warming limit and avert the worst consequences of global heating, we need far more ambitious action. PROMOTING A PANDEMIC RECOVERY FOR PEOPLE The good news: Municipalities are AND PLANET taking action. And you powered a guide to help residents work with COVID-19 sent society into a tailspin. decision-makers demanding a green • LAUNCH A VIRTUAL REALITY CLIMATE their local councils. It sickened and killed millions, and just post-pandemic recovery. CAMPAIGN. The Green New Bill stressed health-care systems and campaign showed people throughout • ASK CANADA TO APPLY “GREEN Your Voice at the Table: a Guide to challenged worldwide economies. Canada that $20 invested in green STRINGS” TO SPENDING. This means Mobilizing Local Government Climate recovery could be worth $307.85 in It also unmasked flaws in current measurable plans to achieve net- Action will help people: 10 years. systems and spotlighted entrenched zero emissions by 2050, moving

PHOTO: MALKEET SANDHU social inequalities. It reminded from fossil fuels to renewables and This is just the beginning. In this humanity of the connections supporting green jobs. crisis lies opportunity. If our species between economy, health care and acts together for the collective • FUEL OUR PARTICIPATION IN A JUST nature. And it showed that being good, we can create a safer, healthier, RECOVERY FOR ALL. Its principles prepared, listening to science and sustainable Canada and improve include putting people’s health and COACHING CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS acting decisively and early pays off. resilience for all. well-being first, building resilience One of the most important things political psychology. Launched in As governments worldwide chart against future crises and upholding people can do for the climate crisis is December 2020, it’s already trained their pandemic recovery paths, Indigenous rights. talk about it. But having constructive more than 7,000 people online in humanity has a once-in-a-generation conversations with people who don’t English. The French version launched opportunity to change course. agree with us without sparking heated in January 2021. It’s also being You made it possible for us to support debate is hard. used in webinar trainings and at pandemic recovery on a scale that in-person events. To support effective, constructive will transform our economy and climate conversations, you helped While CliMate will help you have society, to push for changes that will create CliMate, a fun, easy, interactive less polarized conversations about last for generations. online chatbot that teaches people to the climate emergency, it can also You helped: listen to each other, build empathy be useful for any potentially divisive and find common ground. topics. Check it out here davidsuzuki. • MOBILIZE A MASS MOVEMENT. More org/climate-conversation-coach/. than 50,000 people used our web CliMate is rooted in science and platform to send messages to draws on expertise in social and

6 7 KICK-STARTING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS

You’re supporting innovative Changing society to centre on nature thinkers. In addition to the COVID-19 means building community and pandemic, the world is facing twin knowledge. We joined more than environmental crises: climate change 230 organizations in an appeal to and biodiversity loss. Finding ways to the prime minister outlining why address these crises and put nature and how nature must be central to at the heart of Canada’s society and Canada’s COVID-19 recovery. economy is an important step toward With your help, we hosted the a sustainable future. Nature-Based Climate Solutions With your help, we’re generating Summit in Ottawa in February 2020. the knowledge and tools to build It showed that addressing climate IMAGE: NATURE-BASED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SUMMIT a resilient, sustainable society change and ecosystem degradation with healthy ecosystems at its together has great potential. foundation. More than 400 people attended the WHY NATURE-BASED We’re providing science-based event — including representatives SOLUTIONS MATTER guidance for the federal government’s from government (such as Jonathan (E.G., FLOODING) initiatives to plant two billion trees Wilkinson, federal minister of and implement nature-based climate environment and climate change), • One in five people in Canada solutions around wetlands and business, academia and conservation faces some flood risk. urban forests. and Indigenous groups — to share • Almost two million Canadian knowledge and pave the way to FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO PRICE CARBON POLLUTION We’re also working with municipal households are at high solutions. It showcased successful and regional governments on natural flooding risk. Scientists and economists agree: Carbon pricing is a We argued through our legal team, led by Ecojustice’s Canadian examples, from wetland infrastructure — understanding •  shoulder about necessary tool to meet international emissions goals and Joshua Ginsberg, that climate change is a national protection to natural assets included the services nature provides in a $600 million each year in prevent climate disaster. emergency with unprecedented risk to human health, in municipal infrastructure budgets. ecosystems and species survival. As with other national community, assigning rigorous values flood-related losses. You made it possible for us to appear in court in three And our 95 short videos were viewed emergencies, the federal government must have the to their delivery and managing them provinces (, , Alberta) and at the more than 126,000 times. • Nature-based solutions are a as core assets. ability to respond when the safety of people in Canada is cost-effective way to control Supreme Court to support the ’s Watch all the presentations here: at stake. Canadian infrastructure is aging, floods while also preserving ability to apply effective climate policy solutions at a naturebasedclimatesolutions.ca. capital and operating costs are rising nature in communities. national scale, including setting a national carbon price. We won two of three cases, but in Alberta the court sided with the province. On March 25, 2021, the Supreme Court and growing populations strain With 28 per cent of Earth’s boreal These cases mark the first times climate change has of Canada affirmed the federal government’s right to service delivery. By accounting for zone, which includes 25 per cent of been discussed in the context of Canada’s Constitution. implement carbon pricing. the services nature provides, we the world’s wetlands, Canada is in a As references cases, they are among the most important can lower demand on aging “grey” unique position to lead on nature- Canadian constitutional challenges in the past several decades. In December, Canada announced a comprehensive infrastructure, often at a lower based solutions. We owe it to the world climate plan that includes elements you helped promote: The Province of Saskatchewan brought the first case, overall cost and with other benefits to respect, restore and conserve these home energy retrofits, vehicle fuel efficiency standards, admitting that climate change is a critical issue but (e.g., access to green space, reduced landscapes. With your support, we’ll nature-based solutions and a national carbon price objecting to “busybody federalism.” Canada argued urban heat waves and cleaner air). continue pushing government at all increase in the next decade. that climate change is a national concern and meeting Natural infrastructure can also store levels to commit the funds necessary international commitments sits with the federal Your continuing support will help us push governments at carbon over time, helping to combat to meet species protection, climate government. With the fate of the planet at stake, provinces all levels to turn these plans into action. climate change. control and reconciliation goals. don’t have the ability to address the country as a whole.

8 9 2020 WINS NATURE

“There is no environment ‘out there’ separate from us. The environment is embedded in us. We are as much a part of our surroundings as the trees and birds and fish, the sky, water and rocks.” DAVID SUZUKI

PHOTO: TARA MAGEE

REWILDING COMMUNITIES, ONE WILDFLOWER AT A TIME

The Butterflyway Project empowers keen volunteers to • In November, the Musqueam Indian Band agreed to bring nature home to their neighbourhoods. While the help us commission a Musqueam artist to create an COVID-19 pandemic presented a challenge, with your Indigenous pollinator plant map and information booklet. help, we were able to grow the project’s reach and impact These will include traditional cultural knowledge, stories dramatically in 2020. and Musqueam plant names. During the pandemic: • The year wrapped with the Butterflyway Project winning a 2020 Nature Inspiration Award from the Canadian • We expanded our online training to accommodate Museum of Nature. 251 new Butterflyway Rangers from 134 communities throughout Canada. They committed to plant pollinator- Butterflyway Rangers planted native wildflowers and friendly gardens and recruit friends and neighbours. encouraged friends and neighbours to join the fun. They hosted physically distanced garden tours and online • Representatives from 265 schools participated in monthly meetings. They promoted their important work through Butterflyway School webinars. traditional and social media. They brought scores of new • More than 18,000 people pledged to create backyard bee people into the movement. And they celebrated five new habitat as Bee-bnb Superhosts. Butterflyways (in Calgary, Winnipeg, Collingwood, Halton • One hundred households in Toronto studied wild bees Hills and Ottawa) and the first Butterflyway recognized by in their backyards to support University of Toronto Google Maps (Butterflyway Lane in North Vancouver). Scarborough research. The Butterflyway community continues to grow and • B.C.–based community scientists tracked local butterflies blossom. These groups protect pollinators. They also build with iNaturalist. human connections where they live and educate and inspire others.

10 PHOTO: TARA MAGEE 11 CELEBRATING VICTORIES FOR THE ST. LAWRENCE

In September, Quebec reached its goal of 10 per cent marine protected areas. You helped power the countless videos, postcards, petitions, emails and sailing and diving trips that made this win possible. In December, oil exploration company Corridor Resources finally dropped its proposal to drill the Old Harry well other life in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence site off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. With River estuary, as well as fisheries and tourism industries. your help, we fought this project since 2008, along with scientists, Indigenous leaders and members of coastal But optimal marine protection comes from networks, communities. It’s been a long battle. In 2010, seismic not just isolated areas. Further protections must enforce blasting — which makes life difficult for species that use ways to reduce noise, impose shipping speed limits, curb sound to navigate — was permitted while endangered blue boat traffic volume and preclude any industrial resource whales were migrating in the area! Despite our protests, the exploration or extraction. licence to drill was extended in 2017. Now this fight is won! PHOTO: WINNIE HWO With your support, we’ll continue pushing for measures to These are victories for threatened fish and beluga whales, protect the St. Lawrence and all of Canada’s rich marine BUTTERFLYWAYS BLOOM endangered North Atlantic right whales, sea turtles and heritage, from coast to coast to coast. FROM TO THE MARITIMES SAFEGUARDING ÁTL’KA7TSEM/HOWE SOUND A Butterflyway is a corridor of wildflower patches through a neighbourhood. From a pollinator’s perspective, The glistening body of water people marvel at as they travel to log-sorting sites. It also uses computer modelling to it’s a highway of habitat. Butterflyway Rangers’ work the Sea-to-Sky Highway from West Vancouver to Whistler, highlight marine biodiversity hot spots and recommends 34 provides food and shelter for essential wildlife like birds, B.C., is more than just visually stunning. It’s teeming with candidate areas for protection and management. life — glass sponge reefs, eelgrass beds, salmon-bearing bees and butterflies. Combined with outreach to community groups, the map streams, dolphins, orcas and humpback whales. This map includes Butterflyway Rangers and Butterflyway helps promote the next stage of Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound’s Schools in 2020. Check for Rangers and schools in your With your help, we created a conservation map of the remarkable marine rebirth. After decades of pollution community. ecologically rich fiord in Squamish traditional territory: from mining, pulp and paper and other industries that PHOTO: JEN MILES Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound. On March 5 — just before pushed many species to the brink, marine life is once again Canada implemented COVID-19 restrictions on public burgeoning in the sound. gatherings — you helped us host an event to show it off. This recovering ecosystem could be an ecological oasis for The map features more than 140 layers of data, ranging from Metro Vancouver’s millions of residents and visitors. We estuaries to shipping routes, herring spawning grounds must make sure we protect it.

PHOTO: BOB COTTER VIA FLICKR

12 13 SAVING WILD SALMON 2020 WINS During their miraculous but perilous journey from inland spawning grounds, down rivers, out to sea and back again years later, Pacific wild salmon often must run a gauntlet ENVIRONMENTAL of open-net salmon farms on their coastal migration route. There they swim through waters that can harbour parasitic sea lice and harmful viruses and bacteria, made RIGHTS worse and spread by the farms.

In December, the federal government decided to phase PHOTO: APRIL BENCZE out salmon farms in the Discovery Islands within 18 months — the first step toward Canada’s commitment migration routes in the world — pose a risk to wild salmon. “There can be no greater need for any of us than a healthy to move open net-pens out of the water by 2025. This The aquaculture industry’s own data show 33 per cent of environment — clean air, clean water, clean soil and food.” gives juvenile fish migrating past the Discovery Islands farms exceeded the federal government’s sea lice limit a better chance of survival. Together with countless while juvenile salmon were migrating past the Discovery DAVID SUZUKI Indigenous leaders, community activists, scientists and Islands in the spring of 2020. elected officials you helped make this groundbreaking Phasing out these farms means Okisollo Channel — also win possible. called “Wild Salmon Narrows” because of its importance Decades of research show that the 19 Discovery Islands for juvenile salmon — will be free of farmed fish by the fish farms — located on one of the most important salmon 2021 salmon migration period.

CONSERVING AND RESTORING CARIBOU

Of the 51 boreal caribou populations includes supporting Indigenous herds. The partnership addresses in Canada, 36 are unlikely to survive Peoples — who have lived in some of the most pressing issues of without significant changes. Two harmony with the forest, caribou our time: Indigenous rights and title, herds in British Columbia have died and other wildlife for thousands of measurable recovery of endangered out. One herd in Alberta’s Jasper years — as decision-makers within species and helping Canada’s National Park is gone. The two their traditional territories. economy adapt to a changing world. remaining in the park are on the brink. In February, the Province of British In October, the governments of In fact, almost every caribou herd in Columbia, the federal government Canada and Alberta announced a Canada is at risk of extinction. and West Moberly and Saulteau conservation agreement to protect First Nations signed a historic boreal caribou in that province. With your help, we’ve been speaking agreement for the threatened Pine, Thanks in part to pressure from a up for caribou and their boreal Quintette and Narraway caribou lawsuit you helped make possible, forest home for decades. This the province agreed to meet federal recovery strategy targets for undisturbed habitat (at least 65 per cent) and agreed to greater transparency on caribou populations and habitat disturbance. Much more needs to be done to give caribou — the species famously depicted on the tail-side of the Canadian quarter — a fighting chance to survive and thrive. Thanks to you, we can keep speaking up on their behalf.

14 STRENGTHENING CANADA’S CORNERSTONE POLLUTION LAW 2020 WINS Preventable exposures to toxics and urging the federal government to placed calls and met virtually with pollution take a constant toll on human update CEPA. It had garnered more their MPs to speed up reform of health, contributing to cardiovascular than 8,000 signatures and was CEPA. Together, we are building OUTREACH and respiratory diseases, diabetes, formally submitted to the House of unprecedented momentum and we cancer and other chronic conditions. Commons in December. hope to see a bill introduced early Globally, ambient air pollution alone is in 2021. Thanks to you, more than 10,000 responsible for 8.8 million premature people have used our web platform In this era of climate emergency, deaths per year. “Real environmental change to write directly to their MPs and increasing toxic threats and multiple depends on us. We can’t wait The Canadian Environmental Environment and Climate Change pressures on our health-care system, Protection Act, Canada’s main Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, we need strong environmental for our leaders. We have pollution-prevention law, is supposed calling for modernization of the act. laws to protect human health and to focus on what our own to protect against these threats, but the environment. Strengthening In the September throne speech, the responsibilities are and how we it hasn’t been updated for more than environmental laws to include a government committed to introducing two decades. human rights lens will also help can make the change happen.” legislation to modernize CEPA. prevent environmental injustice and In 2017, the House of Commons SEVERN CULLIS- SUZUKI In November, you supported Virtual environmental racism, and ensure environment committee reviewed Days on the Hill for a Toxic-Free and that protection measures benefit all CEPA and made 87 recommendations Healthy Environment. Hundreds people in Canada. for strengthening it. These included amendments to recognize the human right to a healthy environment and the need to protect vulnerable populations and better control toxic substances — recommendations you helped promote through our Blue Dot movement. We are pressing the government to act on these recommendations to strengthen protections from toxics and pollution. Last summer, you helped support young Blue Dot volunteers Franny Ladell Yakelashek and Rupert Yakelashek to work with their member of Parliament to create an Franny and Rupert were just seven and 10 years old when they PHOTO: DAVID ELLINGSEN e-petition to the House of Commons started as Blue Dot volunteers in 2014.

16 17 LAUNCHING DAVID SUZUKI’S FIRST PODCAST SUPPORTING COMMUNITY ACTION

COVID-19 helped spur a mini and what a green and just recovery Moving Canada away from climate-altering fossil fuels and podcast boom. Thanks to you, we from COVID-19 could look like. into renewable sources requires more than top-down policy had ours planned months before change. We need collective action by many people in many RAVE FIRST REVIEWS David interviews celebrity friends like this pandemic hit, and pivoted communities. Jane Fonda and , leading “Just being able to share our experiences — our quickly to create some hopeful, thinkers like Jennifer Keesmaat and To amplify the meaningful work of local groups in their successes and frustrations — is so valuable. Maybe solutions-focused lockdown Kwame McKenzie, Indigenous activists communities and to connect them to each other, you we won’t all have to invent the wheel every time we listening material. and leaders like Winona LaDuke, helped build Future Ground Network/Réseau Demain undertake a project, knowing how others have done it.” Season 1 of The David Suzuki Podcast, Jeannette Armstrong and Autumn le Québec. It’s an online organizing resource, and a new ~ KATHRYN AITKEN, Transition Notre-Dame-de-Grace “COVID-19 and the basic elements of Peltier, financial journalist Attracta convener and mentor for the environmental community. (Montreal, Quebec) life,” launched on December 2, 2020. Mooney and youth activist Allie Your support powered: Its five episodes — themed on fire, Rougeot — plus a variety of David Suzuki “Not only can we benefit from the knowledge and air, water, earth and spirit — explore Foundation science and policy experts. • Monthly training webinars for community organizers, on insights of other organizers in the network, the tools how this pandemic can help humans topics including transitioning beyond COVID-19, organizer and supports you provide — instructive webinars, the Listen to the whole season here: David Suzuki started in radio 45 years ago. refocus on what’s most important, burnout, how to have difficult conversations, government Action Network organizing platform and access to davidsuzuki.org/podcast. Now he’s on the air with his first podcast. relations and campaign strategizing. Superteam resources — will make us more effective • Resource guides about creative team building, fundraising at getting the job done.” and social media. ~ HOLLY REID, Cycle Don Valley Midtown (Toronto, Ontario) • Recruitment and training of volunteer specialists to “After hearing about how a lot of the other groups help with tech support, design and grant writing for are meeting with politicians, we feel like larger-scale FINDING COMMON GROUND: SCIENCE AND TRADITIONAL community-led initiatives throughout the country. actions are possible! Your ‘difficult conversations’ INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE The project was piloted in Ontario and Quebec and launched webinar was the inspiration behind the climate nationally on February 10, 2021. Groups gather on the new dialogue we held with our community!” You supported Reconciling Ways of Knowing, a ground- DIALOGUE 3: “BRAIDING WAYS OF KNOWING” digital platform to promote their work, start local initiatives, breaking Indigenous knowledge and science forum. Nature as teacher and how we can all “pick up and carry one ~ MARIA NESTOROVSKA, Peel Environmental Youth Alliance host events and push for policy change. At the time of (Mississauga, Ontario) piece” of the weight of the world. For generations, Western knowledge has invalidated writing, more than 80 groups were registered. That’s more Indigenous Peoples’ ways of being and knowing. Science has DIALOGUE 4: “TWO-EYED SEEING AND BEYOND” than 700 people connecting with tens of thousands of “I’ve raised a lot of alarms, and it’s the first time I’ve dominated Canadian society and decision-making around Etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), an idea that recognizes people in their communities. been heard...” the globe. that better outcomes are more likely when two or more Follow the progress you made possible at ~ PATRICIA, SOS Boisé des Pinedes (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec) Reconciling Ways of Knowing brings together Indigenous perspectives collaborate. futuregroundnetwork.org for Future Ground Network and knowledge and science and builds relationships between at reseaudemainlequebec.org for Réseau Demain le Québec. “I feel privileged to be part of the network, I feel Indigenous knowledge keepers and scientists. It aims to DIALOGUE 5: “MILLENNIA OF EXPERIENCE: DRAWING ON INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN RESPONDING TO COVID-19” recognized and listened to … you have allowed me to transform environmental stewardship approaches and How what Indigenous Peoples learned in historic pandemics hold on because I unfortunately had the desire for a solutions, and open pathways to live in greater balance with informed their responses to COVID-19, and what Canada certain period of time to drop my citizens’ committee the planet and each other. and the global community could learn from these lessons. but you have given me the courage to continue.” Catch all the dialogues here: waysofknowingforum.ca. DIALOGUE 6: “WHY MOUNTAINS MATTER: BRINGING INDIGENOUS ~ VALÉRIE MESSIER, Comité des citoyens et citoyennes pour la (Click on “online” in the upper right corner.) protection de l`environnement maskoutain, KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE TOGETHER FOR INTERNATIONAL (Les Maskoutains, Quebec) DIALOGUE 1: “WHY RECONCILING WAYS OF KNOWING?” MOUNTAIN DAY” Humanity’s collective spiritual crisis and the need for Approaches to assessing and caring for the biological and “Invaluable tools and resources, thought-provoking change if our species is to survive, including the importance cultural diversity of mountain regions. webinars, and connections with other environmental of beginning and continuing projects with Indigenous DIALOGUE 7: “CONNECTING SPIRITUALLY WITH THE LAND AND initiatives throughout the country … a lot of potential knowledge keepers. EACH OTHER” for both individual and collective action.” DIALOGUE 2: “ENACTING ETHICAL SPACE IN KNOWLEDGE Humanity’s foundational connection to nature is present in ~ TASFIA AHSAN, ECHO Canada (Vancouver, B.C.) SHARING” many Indigenous ways of knowing, but often missing from Indigenous ethics and knowledge and the “space of the dominant world view that has shaped environmental possibility” that exists between different spheres of culture. policy in Canada. PHOTO: DEMAIN VERDUN

18 19 NURTURING ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS

Since 2017, you helped three cohorts of David Suzuki fellows dig deep into critical environmental issues. Successful fellows embody David Suzuki’s research excellence and his ability to motivate people to make a difference. FINANCIALS MEET THE FELLOWS

NICOLE DAVIES, INDIGENOUS TARA MAHONEY, CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE CHANGE COMMUNICATIONS Nicole is examining the barriers By integrating qualitative research, Indigenous communities face in ensuring crowd-sourcing and experimental their food sovereignty, revitalizing their engagement projects, Tara explores new sustenance practices and generating forms of participatory political culture insights on the changes needed to see to empower champions these efforts thrive. throughout Canada, especially millennials. BRETT DOLTER, CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS ERIC MILLER, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS Brett researches the electricity utility’s Eric’s focus is ecological economics role in facilitating distributed renewable literacy — understanding concepts, energy, carbon pricing’s competitiveness measures and perspectives that relate impacts and the effects of deliberative economies to ecosystems and to the dialogues on Canada’s energy future. conservation of nature.

MAXIME FORTIN FAUBERT, MAIAL PANHPUNU PAIAKAN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION KAIAPO, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABLE CITIES Our first international Indigenous Maxime identifies vacant, contaminated research fellow, Maial works to advance lands across the Island of Montreal human and environmental rights for that contribute to the heat island effect Indigenous communities in her home that could be transformed into green state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. spaces and help improve climate change resilience. PRISCILLA SETTEE, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE MELINA LABOUCAN-MASSIMO, INDIGENOUS Priscilla works with northern KNOWLEDGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Saskatchewan Indigenous trappers Melina visits many Indigenous to learn about the impacts of climate communities (including her own) to change and colonialism on their document the technical, policy and livelihoods and the environment. community engagement practices that enable them to become renewable energy ANNABEL WEBB, ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS transition leaders. Annabel focuses on employing existing domestic and international human JÉRÔME LAVIOLETTE, TRANSPORTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE rights law to promote intergenerational Jérôme focuses on better understanding environmental justice in Canada. the psychological factors of car dependency and the barriers and opportunities in changing this behaviour.

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$100,000+ Lufa Farms Inc. Jelena and Russell Kling Don & Joan Stanley McConnell Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation Family Fund at Edmonton Claudine and Stephen Community Foundation McLean Foundation, The Gordon Lightfoot Bronfman Family Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Nature’s Way of Canada Limited Grant Linney David and Lucile Packard Paula Franzini Foundation, The Mary Neumann Natasha Shulman and Matthew Lorincz Geoffrey Fridd Estate of Jo-Anne Oceans North Vaughn and Cindy Gibbons Thornthwaite Conservation Society MakeWay Foundation – Dragonfly Fund Joseph Glaab Estate of Mary Louise Tucker Jessica Pathy and Mark Pathy McClure Family Fund Green Sanderson Hummingbird Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts, The Anne Menzies Family Foundation Metcalf Foundation, The Leonard Schein and Barbara Small Mouvement Desjardins Greenpeace Canada North Family Foundation Terri Taylor Nestle Health Science Joe Vipond and Erin Grier Peter Gilgan Foundation, The Toronto and Region New Roots Herbal Inc. Ted Grimwood Power Corporation of Canada Conservation Authority Caitlin Phillips and Hart Family Sitka Foundation, The United Nations Environment Mikkel Paulson Ellen Bronfman Hauptman Trottier Family Foundation Programme UNEP Quesada Franchising and Andrew Hauptman University of Ottawa of Canada Corp Ellen Judd $25,000-$99,999 Rossy Foundation, The Rob Krajcarski YOUR DONATIONS AT WORK Dino & Katherine $10,000-$24,999 Starlight Group Property Link Charity Canada Inc. Barbara Bonnis Holdings Inc L’Hôtel Du Vieux-Québec Bennett Family Foundation, The K. Kerry Bonnis Stober Foundation and Gregory H. Moore Many sources, including tens of thousands of small, individual donations power Bennett Mechanical LTD. Keith Z. Brewster Bullitt Foundation, The Nanoleaf Canada Limited Bullfrog Power Inc. UJA Federation of our work. This wide range of support allows us to be fully independent. Canadian Parks And ORT Montréal Donette Chin-Loy Greater Toronto Society (CPAWS) Ottawa Community Foundation Corby Spirit And Wine Ltd United Way of Greater Toronto From 2019 to 2020, our revenues increased, thanks to the Revenue levels, combined with gains on endowment fund Cascades Canada ULC Pass-Through Grants Fund Delta Land Group Ltd Buchanan & Ivy Wang generous support of all our donors, both new and existing. investments, resulted in an excess of revenue over expenses Charitable Gift Funds through the Victoria Foundation We’re profoundly grateful for your commitment to our work, of $1.6M in fiscal year 2020. These funds will help ensure the Canada Foundation, The Designagency Philip and Muriel Berman as we all recognize the increasing urgency of the global fiscal of the Foundation during these uncertain City of Toronto Solid Waste Énergir $5,000-$9,999 Foundation Fund, held at climate and mass biodiversity loss crises. times, as well as the successful delivery of the vitally Management Services Estate of Diana Dignam Vancouver Foundation, The AutoTempest.com important projects included in our new 2020+ Strategic Plan. ECHO Foundation Estate of Doris Jean Rose Davy Real Estate Foundation Harley Rothstein and of British Columbia Estate of Ronald Harold Estate of James R. Steele Eleanor Boyle Ammundsen Ellen and Donald Reid Estate of Jonathan Mason Hird Eric Brassard Year ended August 31, 2020, with comparative figures for 2019. Estate of Terence Morton Heaps Schwab Charitable Fund Estate of Mary McLean Dr. Nathan Brett Estate of Thomas William Lane Anne Gorsuch and 2020 2019 ETJ Holdings Inc. Peter Cavelti Fondation du Grand Montréal - Harold Siden Floyd & Nancy Reynolds Charles & Julie Bentall REVENUE $13,328,917 $12,401,077 Fonds Collectif COVID-19 Alex Smith Fund at Calgary Foundation Family Foundation Gencon Foundation Scott Snider Mark and Jenny Guibert Chawkers Foundation, The EXPENSES $12,350,878 $11,609,011 Genus Capital Management Inc. Eric St-Pierre Anne Hale CRB Foundation, The Houssian Foundation, The Jon Struyk GAINS ON ENDOWMENT FUND INVESTMENTS $683,200 -$403,433 Emily M. Hildebrand Davies Ward Phillips United Way East Ontario Jewish Community J. and B. Carroll Family & Vineberg LLP Foundation of Montreal, The United Way Prescott- EXCESS OF REVENUE OVER EXPENSES $1,661,239 $388,633 Foundation, The Derick Brenninkmeijer Russell, Ottawa, Lanark Kenneth M Molson Janik G Tremblay Fund Charitable Foundation, The Foundation, The and Renfrew County Elizabeth and Rudy Kerklaan Marna Disbrow

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