This section lists the monthly Action Updates for which we have video recordings. See our YouTube channel for other videos.
Mar 2024:
Green Life, Green Death
Issues with corporate funerals and an exploration of natural and sustainable alternatives
Feb 2024: Jack Gibbons
Chair, OCAA
Ontario Clean Air Alliance plan to triple renewable energy by 2030
Oct 2023: Alex Wilson
Councillor, Ward 13
Resisting the forced urban boundary expansion
May 2023: Jen Baker
Coordinator, BAP
Introducing Hamilton’s Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)
Apr 2023: Lynda Lukasik
Director, OCCI
Introducing Hamilton’s Office of Climate Change Initiatives
Action groups are where the real work happens in support of our campaigns. Action groups meet every week or two, depending on the group and current needs. Multiple action groups can work on any one campaign, and multiple campaigns can be associated with any one action group.
Climate
Justice
Focusing on a just transition and ethical practices.
Conservation
Matters
Responding to local attacks on the environment.
Elders 4 Climate
Sanity
Taking climate action for the next generation and beyond.
Fossil Fuel
Resistance
Promoting the transition to renewable energy.
Transit
Matters
Pushing for free, frequent and electric transit.
Other Initiatives
A few other groups provide support and direction for Hamilton 350. These include the Steering Committee (responsible for setting overall goals and direction); the Welcoming Committee (responsible for orienting new members); and Digital Communication (responsible for our website, social media content, email bulletins, and general IT matters).
The “Dundas 4” under arrest at the RBC branch in Dundas
Four members of Hamilton 350’s Elders 4 Climate Sanity (E4CS) were arrested inside the RBC branch in Dundas at the Stop Destroying Earth rally on 22 March. They are due to appear in court in April.
It took six police officers in five patrol cars to accomplish the arrest.
We’ll have more information soon on this story together with next steps and what you can do to help.
In the meantime, here are more images from the rally and the arrest.
A perfect summing up of the Doug Ford administration
“…an ideological commitment to fossil fuels at the expense of consumers’ wallets and the future survival of our society.”
This from an article by Toronto journalist Marco Chown Oved in the Hamilton Spectator explaining clearly why the provincial government is taking us backward by at least a decade.
Five Years of Elders For Climate Sanity
Elders 4 Climate Sanity (E4CS) was founded by six members of Hamilton 350 in the summer of 2018.We wanted to...
read more▸Reject Enbridge’s Proposed Gas Line Subsidy!
Hamilton City Council today unanimously endorsed a motion supporting the OEB’s rejection of Enbridge’s proposed gas pipeline subsidy.Enbridge’s proposal would...
read more▸Bill McKibben debunks the fossil fuel industry’s “natural”…
Hailing Biden’s decision to halt LNG export licences, McKibben explains the sleight of hand used in arguments by the fossil...
read more▸NDP calls for ban on ‘misleading, deceptive’ fossil…
The NDP’s natural resources critic Charlie Angus tabled a private members bill (C-372) in the House of Commons this week....
read more▸Clean Creatives: PR Professionals for a Safe Climate
Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has pledged not to work for...
read more▸What does COP28 have to do with me?
The latest UN Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates (COP28) may seem a long way from our priority...
read more▸Municipal Protected Areas Project
A letter sent by Hamilton 350 member, Don McLean, to Hamilton City Council.
read more▸Fo$$il Bank$ Make Graves Hallowe’en Picket
On Saturday, 28 October, the Elders for Climate Sanity picketed that Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and the other Big...
read more▸Enbridge and TC Energy implicated in attempts to…
Enbridge and TC Energy are among the top 10 companies that lobbied most for anti-protest bills since 2017, along with...
read more▸Hamilton Airport 20-year plan misses the boat on…
Hamilton 350 Committee steering committee member Don McLean spoke at the October 6 meeting of the city’s Airport Committee. The...
read more▸Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
Science, one of the most authoritative journals in the world, published an article in January 2023 providing solid evidence that...
read more▸Don Brown receives Hamilton’s Economic Leadership award
The awards gala program cited Don's "leadership attributes", his skill in raising awareness of the climate emergency, and his work...
read more▸The Elders at Supercrawl
The Elders 4 Climate Sanity and friends took to Supercrawl in September to let passersby know that TD Bank—the festival’s...
read more▸We may have won the battle but the…
Doug Ford has finally decided that the heat’s too much and has backtracked over the Greenbelt debacle. For the latest...
read more▸The Ford government has a selective memory
From the Ontario Headwaters Institute:“Just a few weeks ago, we shared with the public and reminded the government that its...
read more▸What should we do with the Greenbelt?
This item was extracted from an email sent to Hamilton 350 by one of our members.
read more▸Greenbelt Winners and Losers
Who got paid off? That’s a key unanswered question in the Auditor-General’s damning report on how the provincial Conservative government...
read more▸Proposal to City Council for Emergency Heat Relief
H350 statement endorsed by ACORN Hamilton, Environment Hamilton, the Hamilton and District Labour Council and the Hamilton Council of Canadians
read more▸RBC Protest at the Centre on Barton
The Elders for Climate Sanity were at RBC at the Centre on Barton on Friday, 14 April, talking with customers and...
read more▸Letter of Support for the MacDivest Hunger Strike
The Hamilton 350 Committee, a 14-year-old volunteer climate action organization, supports the students of MacDivest and applauds their personal sacrifice...
read more▸350 represents 350 parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.
We are currently at 424.55
Hamilton 350 acknowledges that we are on the traditional lands of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississauga peoples, which are governed by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Agreement and are covered by the Great Lakes Purchase of 1792.