Emergency Preparedness in a Changing Climate Earth Talk with Caitilin Miller Monday, June 17, 2024, 7:00PM at the Canmore Public Library🏔️ How does the Town of Canmore prepare for disasters?🏔️ How does a changing climate affect the way municipalities prepare for disasters?🏔️ What actions can YOU take to be prepared for disasters? Learn all of this… Read More »Earth Talk: Emergency Preparedness in a Changing Climate with Caitlin Miller

 (In Person, Catharine Robb Whyte Building, 101 Bear Street, Banff) For millennium Indigenous people used fire to maintain Canadian Rockies ecosystems. A primary objective was to provide a sustainable source of plants, wildlife, and fisheries resources. European colonization halted this long-term fire regime. Decades later forest growth and abundant fuels have created megafires of incredible… Read More »FIRESMART IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES: Integrating Fire, Vegetation, and Wildlife Outcomes with Cliff White

The 11th Wild & Scenic Film Festival comes to Invermere on the evening of November 16th. The eclectic selection of 12 short, environmentally focused films celebrate people with passion while offering solutions to what may sometimes seem like insurmountable global problems. If you can’t get to Invermere, there’s a 5-day Online Film Access option. That way you can still support… Read More »The 11th Wild & Scenic Film Festival

*OUR APOLOGIES, BUT JOHN IS NOT AVAILABLE IN PERSON FOR THIS TALK Instead we will be showing a recently pre-recorded program of Dr. Pomeroy presenting his team’s findings about forecasts for ice, water, and climate in Southern Alberta and Southern Rockies.Please join us for some thought-provoking science and conservation conversations.  Dr. Pomeroy, among many other distinctions,… Read More »Changes in Mountain Snow, Ice and Water around the World – Local implications and Global Prospects with John Pomeroy*

Join us with Ron Groves for their presentation "Electric Vehicles Fact and Fiction: Driving in Winter and Choosing the Right One". P.S. If you haven't already, check out this unique Winter EV Driving VIP Experience offered by Edmund Ong and Ron Groves presented by the Biosphere and Plug'n Drive! This Earth Talks event, with the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley, will… Read More »Electric Vehicles Fact and Fiction: Driving in Winter and Choosing the Right One with Ron Groves

WATCH VIDEO RECORDING VIEW PDF OF SLIDE PRESENTATION plus our AGM (we promise to be brief!) Catharine Robb Whyte Building, 101 Bear Street, Banff More people than ever are enjoying the outdoors, and governments are investing in recreation infrastructure—but we still lack the tools to fully understand where and how people are using the landscape.… Read More »Balancing Outdoor Recreation and Wildlife Conservation: Insights from collaborative recreation ecology research with Annie Loosen, Wildlife Ecologist