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TriCities Urban Forest Working Group presents: 

Building an Affordable, Green & Climate-Ready City: what our elected representatives & residents can do

Sat, Nov 29th, 2025

 Registration 8:30 am

 Event 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

 St Laurence Anglican Church, 

825 St. Laurence Street, Coq. 

Event is free – all welcome! 

Guest speakers:

 Why we need our city to be "climate-ready” & actions our elected representatives need to take to get us there

DR. KATHLEEN ROSS (Coquitlam physician, & past-President of the Canadian Medical Association) The Health and Climate Crisis – The Walrus Nov, 2023

 Building Homes for People, Not for Profit 

THOM ARMSTRONG (Chief Executive Officer, Community Land Trust & Co-operative Housing Federation of BC) Interview by Thom – CBC's Early Edition Oct, 2025 

Livable cities need shade & a healthy tree canopy: what is needed to achieve this

CATHERINE BERRIS (Urban Planner & Past President of the Canadian Society for Landscape Architects) What about the trees in B.C. communities as density increases? Dec, 2023 

What our elected representatives can do to protect our urban forest

DAVID QUIGG (Sierra Club BC & Project Leader: Sierra Club's Climate-Ready Communities Toolkit for Local Governments ) 

Sponsored by: Burke Mountain Naturalists, Protect Coquitlam’s Urban Trees, & Wondrous Tree Fellowship

Supporting organizations include: All Saints Roman Catholic Church, BC Nature, Como Lake United Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Laudato Si Circle -Port Moody, Metro Vancouver Alliance, Nature Canada, St. Laurence Anglican Church