Bow Valley Climate Kids Project

March 24, 2010: Videos by students from Lawrence Grassi, Canmore Collegiate, and Exhshaw School are now online!  View here...

The Bow Valley is a location where we are more aware of the affects of climate change on the natural environment.  These affects include receding glaciers; water quality impacts of melting glaciers releasing atmospheric pollutants; and the economic and recreational impacts of changing winter snowpack conditions on our ski hills and backcountry.

The Bow Valley Climate Kids Project provides students in the Bow Valley the opportunity to teach other youth and the general public what actions can be undertaken to reduce these climate change impacts. With the help of professional movie makers, teams or classes of local youth will participate in workshops to write, direct and edit their own videos.

Teams will resent their videos in local classrooms, to youth groups, at film festivals and to members of the public to help their audiences learn more about climate change and its local and world-wide impacts.  The films will include actions that both the youth and their audiences can pledge to do on such topics as energy conservation, reductions in vehicle use, reductions in waste, improving water quality, and conservation.  Follow up actions will include both activities with specific measurable changes that help reduce climate change impacts, and pledges to undertake such actions.

Watch the student's videos here.