Organizer: The Bentway

Explore the power of shade in public space at this free public talk, co-presented by The Bentway and DIALOG.

Celebrate Cool by Design, The Bentway’s recently released report that brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the vital role of shade in public spaces and examines how design, culture, and community engagement can help rapidly warming northern cities respond to heat.

Register and More details: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-launch-cool-by-design-tickets-1982910319143

Organizer: Tamara Grossutti

Join yoga teacher and climate activist Tamara Grossutti for an evening of gentle yoga, meditation, and reflection designed to help climate community members recharge and reconnect. Through breathwork, meditation, and accessible yoga practices, participants will explore ways to cultivate calm, self-compassion, and emotional resilience while gently processing feelings connected to the climate crisis. All are welcome, especially those new to yoga and meditation.

Register and More details: https://mindfulactionyoga.eventbrite.ca

Organizer: Councillor Matlow and Ward 12 of the Wards Project

This event is an opportunity for community members to come together and discuss the climate-related concerns most affecting Toronto-St. Paul's. We'll explore how to access city services related to climate impacts, identify community priorities, and participate in a Q and A with the Councillor, city staff and local experts.

This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible, This event is kid-friendly and open to all ages

Register the day of the event in-person

Organizer: University of Toronto’s School of the Environment

Nearly a century has passed since public pressure led to the establishment of the New York City Noise Abatement Commission in 1929. Ordinances, laws and regulations around the world were similarly trying to address this new and unintended side-effect of modernity as industrial machinery, trucks, cars, trains and airplanes were built and used with little regard for those exposed to the sounds – the receiver – produced by their operation. While there have been notable reductions in noise at source and during transmission, one can argue that the receivers (e.g., people) are in the same predicament they were 100 years ago, in large part because of our subjective experiences of sound and the challenges of controlling sound waves as a physical phenomenon. This seminar will provide an overview of predominant approaches to characterizing, understanding and controlling environmental noise exposures, and highlight contextual and cultural nuances that complicate the goal of noise reduction in Toronto and Canada at large.

Register and More details: https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/environment-and-health-seminar-series-fleeting-yet-insidious-when-sounds-city-become-health

Organizer: Grandmothers Act to Save the Planet (GASP)

As Queen's Park session opens again, this is a reminder to the current government about the amount cumulative damage to land and water that their legislation and policies are causing: selling off provincial park land at Wasaga Beach; Ontario Place ecosystem destruction and tree cutting; the proposed 413 and Bradford Bypasses that cut through environmental sensitive lands and fresh water systems; legislation that threaten fresh water from heavy industrial water takings by undermining of guardrail protections; gutting of the Endangered Species Act; potential impact on the Breathing Lands of James Bay; and the proposed amalgamation of the Conservation Authorities; - just to name a few!

Please join us at the front of Queen's Park Legislative Building for an hour to make our voices heard.

Dress for the weather.

More details: https://www.gasp4change.org/events/

Organizer: Community Bikeways & Fix Coffee + Bikes

E-bikes are transforming urban transportation. They offer clean, affordable and efficient travel, allowing people of all ages and abilities to go further and faster, while helping to fight climate change.

But they are also controversial. Some people see them as obtrusive and dangerous to pedestrians and other road users.

Join Community Bikeway and Fix Coffee + Bikes for a discussion about the future of e-bikes.

Speakers: Albert Koehl (Environmental lawyer and author of Wheeling through Toronto, a History of the Bicycle and Its Riders), Fred Sztabinski/Haydn Wiles (Fix Coffee + Bikes), and Lance Le Roux (Engineer, advocate for e-bikes in condominiums, and Board member of Community Bikeways).

This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible, This event is kid-friendly and open to all ages.

Register and More details: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future-of-e-bikes-community-bikeways-fix-tickets-1985008763647

Organizer: School of Cities

Join Jesse M. Keenan in conversation about his recently published book, North: The Future of Post Climate America (Oxford University Press).

In North: The Future of Post-Climate America, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the physical landscape of cities to electoral politics. First, Keenan examines how human mobility is shaped by the environment and the economy. Next, he provides a conceptual and empirical overview of adaptation science, with a focus on how people, governments, and markets are preparing for and responding to climate impacts. He documents how physical impacts in the built environment, escalating costs, and public sector inertia are converging to drive people out of high-risk areas, while, at the same time, certain other areas are attracting people who seek a more sustainable way of life. North is not just a collection of scientific observations and projections about the peril of those left behind. It is also a projection of optimism about America’s capacity for decarbonization, environmental stewardship, and economic mobility for those on the move.

Register and More details: https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/north-the-future-of-post-climate-america/

Organizer: Climate Action for Lifelong Learners (CALL)

Award winning author and thought leader elin kelsey will be discussing her book:
How to be Hopeful : Empowering Practices to Overcome Despair and Act for Climate Justice.

This online event will have closed captioning

Register and More details: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XeGmDBGNSzCGLrZGs7PyOQ

Organizer: The Stop's Urban Agriculture team

Explore your role in Toronto’s food system and envision a more just, resilient future through discussion, mapping, and food justice action.

This workshop invites participants to step back and examine how they personally fit within Toronto’s food system — as eaters, workers, growers, organizers, and community members. Through guided discussion and mapping activities, we’ll explore who holds power in the current system, who is excluded, and what a more just, resilient, and community-rooted food system could look like. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of local food system dynamics and concrete ways to engage in food justice work at the neighbourhood and city scale.

Register and More details: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/placing-yourself-in-the-food-system-tickets-1982047489396

Organizer: Change Course

Through the Major Projects Office and federal subsidies, the Carney government is financing projects like LNG, and so-called “critical“ minerals, and subsidizing them using your tax dollars. These projects, portrayed as being in the national interest, are wrecking the climate and violating Indigenous rights!

Join for a community conversation on how extractive projects are being de-risked and subsidized through recent federal policies. The event, organized by Change Course, will highlight work being done by 8th Fire Rising, an Indigenous-led coalition of concerned and impacted communities fighting the recent flood of legislation targeting Indigenous, environmental and labour rights. The conversation will be followed by a group visioning exercise to imagine the kinds of nation building projects we’d rather see. 

More details: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVZEbB2jyVO/

Organizers: ​Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods (IIELS), ​Degrowth Collective, ​Just Sustainability Design, ​Earth47, ​kesaco, PUPA Focusing

​An Evening of Film, Conversation, and Collective Sense-Making

​Wildfires, floods, rising costs of living, growing inequality, geopolitical tensions, the threat of AI—many of us feel that something in our world is no longer working. Are these separate challenges, or are they somehow connected? How might we navigate this moment and come out on the other side?

​Join us for an evening of film and conversation, as we explore how these challenges might be linked to stories we tell ourselves about progress, growth, and success. And how GDP is a grossly flawed measure of human and planetary flourishing.

​We will be screening the documentary The Cost of Growth, which invites us to look beneath today’s crises and ask deeper questions about our economic systems, whose interests they serve, and what alternative futures might be possible.

​The screening will be followed by a lightly facilitated conversation—no prior expertise required, just curiosity and openness.

This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible, This event is kid-friendly and open to all ages. Accessibility info is on this page: https://innis.utoronto.ca/book-a-venue/innis-town-hall/

Register and More details: https://luma.com/pqxnymxg

Oragnizer: Park People

How do we build a healthier, greener, more joyful Toronto? We start at the park. Explore Park People's exhibit showcasing over 15 years of park projects led by Torontonians making incredible things happen. It is proof of what is possible–not in other cities, but here at home. Come and reflect on what we have done and learned together. Add your voice. Share your vision for the future of our urban green spaces. We are at a critical moment for Toronto’s parks and public spaces. The upcoming municipal election is an opportunity for us all to contribute ideas and impact parks for years to come. Let’s co-create an ambitious vision - and then make it happen.

This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible, This event is kid-friendly and open to all ages

More details: https://parkpeople.ca/events/interactive-exhibit-start-at-the-park/

Organizer: Toronto Home Energy Network

Baseboard heaters and oil furnaces are very costly to run, but high upfront costs or being a renter hold Torontonians back from replacing them with better equipment. The Energy Affordability Program helps income-eligible residents replace baseboard heaters and oil furnaces with a modern heat pump for free (if you qualify)!

Arwa Sayyadi from the Energy Affordability Program will join to talk about the program. There will also be a talk about safe financing options and traps to avoid if you decide to rent a heat pump. Bring your questions!

Register and More details: https://www.thenetwork.to/event-details/replace-your-old-baseboard-heaters-or-oil-furnace-for-free?utm_source=tcan&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EAP_webinar

Organizer: City of Toronto

City Planning and Environment, Climate & Forestry want to hear from you as we propose modernizing zoning rules for renewable energy and other low carbon technologies. We are looking for feedback on new or revised rules for ground and building mounted heating and cooling devices in Residential zones, new standards for residential energy storage systems, technical amendments for building mounted solar devices to align with provincial changes to the Electricity Act, updated regulations for building cladding, and new zoning standards for electric vehicle chargers and solar canopies in and around parking lots.

Register and More details: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/zoning-for-low-carbon-technologies/

Organizer: Greenpeace Canada

Toronto Grassy Narrows Solidarity Group joins the Greenpeace volunteer hangout to discuss the decades-long fight for justice led by Grassy Narrows First Nation.

This online event will have closed captioning, This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible

Register and More details: https://forms.gle/W4Wqm6KEZdHGQ3Ts7

Organizer: Sustainability Network

2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion efforts are growing in the ENGO sector, but we are still in the early stages.

If your organization is ready to go beyond holding a "queer hike" in June and explore the history and current issues impacting your 2SLGBTQIA+ staff, this is the webinar for you!

Join Misha Goforth (Pride at Work Canada's Manager of Programs) and Anna-Liza Badaloo (Sustainability Network JEDI Program Associate) for this fireside chat to discuss how recently proposed changes to the Employment Equity Act could improve 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion, why data scarcity matters, and where ENGOs can start to foster more welcoming and affirming workplaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ staff.

Register and More details: https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/advancing-equity-for-2slgbtqia-engo-staff

Organizer: Toronto Home Energy Network

Most Torontonians can get $1,000-$2,250 back on their heat pump through the Home Renovation Savings Program. There’s also money available for other home updates, like heat pump water heaters, air sealing, insulation, and new windows and doors.

Dilesh Thurairatnam from the Home Renovation Saving Program will join to talk about the program. There will also be a talk about safe financing options and traps to avoid if you decide to rent a heat pump. Bring your questions!

Register and More details: https://www.thenetwork.to/event-details/heat-pump-rebates?utm_source=tcan&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HRSP_webinar

Organizer: City of Toronto

City Planning and Environment, Climate & Forestry want to hear from you as we propose modernizing zoning rules for renewable energy and other low carbon technologies. We are looking for feedback on new or revised rules for ground and building mounted heating and cooling devices in Residential zones, new standards for residential energy storage systems, technical amendments for building mounted solar devices to align with provincial changes to the Electricity Act, updated regulations for building cladding, and new zoning standards for electric vehicle chargers and solar canopies in and around parking lots.

Register and More details: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/zoning-for-low-carbon-technologies/

Organizer: The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN)

The world’s largest mining convention is coming to Toronto again this year, to sell their vision of a future of war, environmental destruction and greed. Join us outside of their convention to show your support for the future we actually want and need. Bring your friends, family, neighbours and comrades for a family friendly rally! Land back. Defend land defenders. No more war. 

More details: https://mininginjustice.org/pdac2026/

Organizer: ClimateFast and Toronto350

Toronto Climate Film Festival is excited to present a trio of short films centred on the renewable energy transition:

The Great Transition (2025–2050), Part I - A glimpse into our energy future (2025)followed by
Power Play: Transforming Australia's Biggest Climate Polluter (2022)followed by
Power to the People E8 “Six Nations”

Light refreshments will be provided. Raffle for Here Comes the Sun: a Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben.

Register and More details: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/toronto-climate-film-festival-presents-a-night-on-renewable-energy-tickets-1981396782113

Organizers: Very Láo.d, Climate4Palestine Toronto and Change Course

Israel’s use of white phosphorus in Palestine and toxic glyphosate in South Lebanon as seen recently as  modern acts of ecocide. As the Vietnamese diaspora, we carry the legacy of war and environmental destruction, especially from Agent Orange. On February 28, join us Very.Lao.d and  community member for a fundraiser supporting Trần Tố Nga, a survivor of Agent Orange and a courageous activist. She is suing Monsanto-Bayer, Dow Chemical, and others for their role in manufacturing the toxic chemical. Her case seeks justice for millions affected and recognition of ecocide as a crime.

Trần Tố Nga’s body bears the scars: dioxin poisoning, cancer, and the loss of her daughter. Her fight is for global reparations of imperial violence and corporate accountability.

The event features a screening of The People vs. Agent Orange (2020) and a community discussion on ecocide, climate justice, and imperial violence.

Instagram: Very Láo.d, Climate4Palestine, and Change Course. 

Register and More details: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/chat-djoc-dje-quoc-a-community-fundraiser-and-film-screening

Organizer: University of Toronto’s The School of the Environment

Initially used in livestock and energy management circles to designate spaces earmarked for exploitation and degradation in order to preserve others, the nomenclature of sacrifice zones has been reclaimed by the environmental justice movement to call to our attention the unequal distribution of environmental harms due to the spatial patterning of industry. While the term helps bring visibility to how racialized and marginalized communities bear a high burden of environmental hazards, it is also toxic, for it has resulted in narratives that consistently stress how polluted an ecosystem is and how unhealthy the communities it sustains are. This is treacherous terrain, for perceptions of populations and ecosystems as “waste(d)” prime them to become pollution sinks. Simultaneously, such rhetoric, by championing relocation as the most desirable remedy to environmental injustice, encourages further land dispossession.

To make this case, this presentation probes framings of Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s experience of environmental injustice and offers representational justice as an orienting principle that acknowledges the binds between representation as a civic and political right and representation as depiction, as how one is shown and made recognizable to the world.

Register and More details: https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/environment-seminar-series-i-wish-these-were-trees-case-against-sacrifice-zone-framings-dr

Organizer: Centre For Social Innovation, Green Growth Lab and Spring

A monthly coffee meet up for anyone working in or interested by the climate spaces. We’re part of the global Company Home series.

• For like-minded individuals to catch up about projects across climate tech, impact investing etc.

• Open to all - casual interest, founders, investors and operators in the space. Free to attend, monthly (on the last Thursday except when announced otherwise).

• No name tags, no speakers, early in the morning when we’re bright and fresh, so we could grab a coffee and have a chat to start the day.

Register and More details: https://climatecoffee.notion.site/Climate-Coffee-Toronto-2e9437e431d780879f42edd5f26cdea9

Organizer: Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation and Psychiatree

Concerned about wildfires? Melting ice caps? Converging international crises?

Join Dr. Nate Charach, MD, and Gwen Schauerte, RP, in a small group that will empower you to engage in meaningful action to address the challenges of our time. Based on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects while integrating land-based healing practices and psychotherapeutic principles. You will connect to your inner self, to others in the group and to the greater natural world, deepening your experience of community.

Seven Wednesday evenings 7:00-9:15 pm from February 25 to May 20, 2026.

This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible.

Intake meetings take place for three weeks prior to the start of the event and there is a cap of 10 participants, so we would be grateful if you could advertise early.

Register: info@psychiatree.ca

Organizer: Mining Injustice Solidarity Network

The 2026 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto is looming, and we here at MISN would like to invite you to a teach-in & art build in preparation!

We will be discussing the links between mining and militarism, Canada’s role in the global mining industry, and why it is so critical for us to disrupt PDAC 2026! We would love to hear from you and your communities about your concerns around mining and militarism.

We KNOW that a future focused on mining is one which poisons the land and water, violates the sovereignty of Indigenous nations, and fuels Canadian military violence abroad.

Accessibility note: The art build will be located in the basement down two flights of stairs. Please contact us via info@mininginjustice.org if you would like to participate but have accessibility concerns.

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gf004bYXz_jAzYZiugMjH3jkjb4_Ex5UhlAaZ-0Av8w/viewform

More details: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUWgIHuj5P_/

Organizer: Sustainability Network

As the environmental non-profit sector continues to welcome and affirm staff from equity-deserving communities, there is a strong need for spaces where people who share these identities can discuss their joys and challenges.

Identity-based groups provide ENGO and allied non-profit staff with the opportunity to gather with peers who share their workplace challenges to build community, share strategies, and benefit from brave, virtual spaces where people can share their experiences. For the safety and comfort of participants, meetings are not recorded.

Last year we launched For BIPOC Ears Only for racialized and/or Indigenous people (people with mixed ancestry that includes White/European are very welcome). Today we re-launch this offering and announce a new For Neurodivergent Ears Only stream.

Both groups feature Monthly Community Calls, shared Google Folders, and a Discord server to keep in touch 24/7 and are facilitated by Anna-Liza Badaloo. Feel free to reach out to her anna-liza@sustainabilitynetwork.ca with any questions.

Register and More details: https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/justice-equity-diversity-inclusion-jedi-identity-based-groups

Organizer: Climate4Palestine Toronto and East End Acts

Time TBA, follow Climate4Palestine Instagram for updates.

📣Join climate and environmental organizations in the National Arms Embargo Day of Action! We're asking Julie Dabrusin, the Minister of Climate Change, Environment and Nature, to pick a side: legitimacy through climate action or complicity in ICE, Israeli war crimes, and US war crimes.

👉 We are specifically calling on MP Dabrusin to vote YES to the No More Loopholes Act: a bill that would stop the unregulated flow of arms through the US, and allow Canadian regulation when complicity in war crimes is suspected. This bill would stop, among other things, Canadian arms being used by ICE in Minneapolis, the IDF in Gaza, and, potentially, war criminals in Sudan.

✊ The US military is one of the largest carbon criminals on the planet. Join us on the 17th and stand up for climate action and human rights. For more: www.armsembargonow.ca

This in-person event is wheel-chair accessible, This event is kid-friendly and open to all ages.

More details coming soon, check www.armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopholes/ for updates.

Organizer: Climate Action for Lifelong Learners

8-week on-line Zoom course • Only $25
Tuesdays, February 17 to April 7 • 1–2:30 PM ET
A recording will be available for one week after each class

CALL is pleased to present an up-to-date, in depth, inspiring and accessible climate course with Dr. Martin Bush, a leading expert in climate science and renewable energy.

In this engaging series, you will learn what’s driving the changing climate, how it’s affecting Canadians and Canada, the latest solutions in clean energy, and what we can all do to make a difference.

This online event will have closed captioning.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ES1nOd-iRpif6zitB-P1Cg

More details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DkOAYj49XE4a1x2ZZhRpmeO9x4VIIzOi/view?usp=share_link

Organizer: Sustainability Network

Join us for a conversation about the essential role of independent climate news reporting. This session is for anyone trying to build momentum for climate solutions—on the front lines, or in federal and provincial policy.

Finding a steady foothold is challenging in the midst of a global climate and affordability crisis, cascading mis/disinformation, and alarming attacks on democracy and Canadian sovereignty. Independent journalism, practiced from a base of deep energy and climate expertise, is crucial to that effort.

This session will cover:

- The line between climate journalism and advocacy—and why it matters;

- Why reliable, independent news reporting is an essential bulwark for democracy and Canadian sovereignty, an antidote to mis/disinformation, and a basis for communities to rebuild trust;

- How ENGOs and other changemakers can use climate and energy journalism as a proof point for their own work.

The session is set up to allow lots of time for questions and discussion. So bring your own ideas and experience, hopes and concerns to this hour-long conversation.

Register and More details: https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/the-energy-mix-on-solutions-journalism-how-climate-news-builds-momentum-for-action

Organizer: Sustainability Network

In this 1-hour webinar, led by Sydney Penner and Erika De Torres, “Ask Us, Not About Us: Centering Youth Voices in ENGOs through AisB’s Youth Friendly Recommendations,” we’ll explore how environmental non-governmental organizations can move beyond tokenism to engage young people meaningfully. Drawing on Apathy is Boring’s Youth Friendly resources and experiences, we’ll introduce practical strategies to share power, co-create initiatives, and design programs and governance structures that are responsive to youth needs, experiences, and leadership. Participants will leave with an idea of how the 3 workshop sessions will go, along with a deeper look into “Leaf it to Us” organizational reviews. They will also be introduced to concrete tools, examples, and reflection questions to help assess how youth-friendly their organization truly is and identify next steps to embed youth voice at every level of their work.

Register and More details: https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/centering-youth-voices-introduction-to-youth-friendly-principles-for-engos-with-apathy-is-boring