FW: Wildfire smoke, heatwaves, and volunteers

[torontourbangrowers]

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From: Rachel Lissner <rachel....@gmail.com>

Date: 2024-05-28 3:49 p.m. (GMT-05:00)

To: torontour...@gmail.com

Subject: Wildfire smoke, heatwaves, and volunteers

Hi everyone,

With summer around the corner, I want to prepare for the possibility of wildfire smoke returning to Toronto. I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive weather policy that we can easily and definitively communicate to our variety of stakeholders, particularly keen volunteers who aren't always accessible by phone or email.

Do you have something you could share with me? How do you navigate weather reports?

We operate strictly outside and do not have access to any buildings for AC, shade, or water. We are either onsite (in someone's yard) or not happening.

Thank you,

Rachel

[Marc Green]

This is a very good question. I’m going to pose similar to my Landscape Ontario peers and see what I get back.

Marc Green (he/him)

VP Operations
The Backyard Urban Farm Company
(416) 450-3899 (cell)

[rita....@icloud.com]

The four people I would want to consult, for starters, for a good, honest, open discussion of this are:

1/ Dr. Mili Roy

with Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign and Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

2/ Dr. Samantha Green 

 with Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

3/ Jennifer Penney

who worked with MP Peter Tabuns to draw up the recently tabled 

Ontario Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Act   Bill 198

Private member’s bill 198 was released May 16, 2024 by Climate and Energy Critic Peter Tabuns. The bill “lays out a sweeping strategy to strengthen Ontario’s response to climate change impacts. Read more here, courtesy of the National Observer, and here, courtesy of The Energy Mix.

4/ Councillor Dianne Saxe   council...@toronto.ca

ardent proponent of climate action, former Environment Commissioner of Ontario, pre-Ford

They would be knowledgeable, articulate, engaged. We should organize a public panel to air these very real timely concerns.

5/ A large body of research took place at York University:  Work in a Warming World   https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/collections/3826cb34-bd9b-44f9-b7c5-7255204390af

Perhaps the main organizer may be reached and asked about these concerns.

Rita 

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