Monthly Meetings

Monthly meetings are on Zoom on the last Monday of each month at 7:00 PM.  If you would like to attend the monthly meetings please email a request for a zoom link to 350Kingston@gmail.com and you will receive a link by email on the afternoon of the meeting.

Upcoming Events

Weekly Fridays for Future Climate Strikes – 11:30 to 12:30 at Princess St. and Wellington St.  The first Friday of the month the protest is moved to the downtown RBC location (King & Princess) to protest bank financing of fossil fuels.

Past Events (see blog for photos)

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2024-11-03 Plantiful Celebration Potluck

2024-10-05 Kingston Climate Expo.

2024-10-01 Seniors for Climate at Confederation Park. 60 communities across Canada  participated.

2024-09-28  The Kingston Climate Justice Coalition Town Hall.  City report card & discussions.  Was excellent!

2024-09-21  The Princess Street Promenade is a chance to engage people in a climate quiz and discussion and increase our membership.

2024-07-20  The Princess Street Promenade is a chance to engage people in a climate quiz and discussion and increase our membership.

2024-06-22  The Princess Street Promenade is a chance to engage people in a climate quiz and discussion and increase our membership.

2024-04-20 Earth Day Celebration at Skelton Park

2024-04-06 At RBC, Princess & King.  Stand in solidarity with Indigenous Land Defenders resisting projects funded by RBC.
RBC is complicit in human rights abuses and genocide at home and around the world. This includes the Coastal GasLink pipeline violating Wet’suwet’en rights, tar sands extraction causing devastating health impacts, and weapons and surveillance technology used in the genocide in Palestine. They profit from land theft and war, ecocide and genocide. 

2024-04-04  7:00 pm.  If you would like to get involved in organizing at the municipal level, SCAN! has helped to found a new working group called the Kingston Climate Action Coalition. It focuses on coordinating across grassroots organizations to hold the City of Kingston accountable to their climate promises and achieve concrete wins for people and the planet during this council term. We meet on the first Thursday of every month at 7PM, by Zoom.

2024-04-02  Queen’s University, corner of Union and University    Divestment Dance Party   Stop Queen’s Fossil Fuel Investments. 

2024-03-15 – Noon Fridays for Future Protest at Queens at North end of Tindall Field on Union Street

2024-03-21 – Climate Change Disinformation Teach In

2024-03-15 – Queens Parking Protest – Tindall Field

2024-01-29 – 350 Kingston Table at the Kingston Climate Symposium 

2024-01-23 – 350 Kingston and SCAN Delegation to Council (see Blog Post)

2024-01-09 – 350 Kingston (Gavin Hutchison) Delegation to Council (vs GHG Inventory Report)

2023-12-10 – Youth Imagine the Future – Awards Presentation Global Climate strike at the Window Art Gallery 

2023-09-15 – Global Climate strike starting at Queens University sponsored by SCAN, 350 Kingstson and QBACC

October is PLANTIFUL.  Check out the home page for more information.

2023-09-10 – 350 Kingston Booth at the City Hall market with a very popular climate quiz!

August 5th & September 23rd  Princess Street Promenades – See blog post on our June 24th participation to get an idea of what happened!

2023-06-28 – Canada is Burning – Joint protest with SCAN (See blog post).

2023-06-24  – 350 Tent at Princess St. Promenade (See blog post)

2023-06-11 – Conversation with Ted Hsu (See blog post)

2023-05-25, 3:30PM – SCAN and 350 members participated in the National Day of Action to put pressure on the federal Liberals at Mark Gerretsen’s office

23-05-03 Mobilizing Kingston with Action Ready Answers –  Project Drawdown – Link to YouTube Recording

2023-04-22 – Skeleton Park Earth Day Event – 350 had a tent (See blog post)

2023-04-18 Beyond Gas: Ontario’s Energy Future – Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign and the Cdn Assn Physicians for the Environment held an evening with celebrated Stanford energy researcher and author Dr Mark Z. Jacobson (No Miracles Needed) and local experts Jack Gibbons (Ontario Clean Air Alliance) and Gaby Kalapos (Climate Caucus and Ontario Clean Air Partnership) moderated by well-known health journalist Avis Favaro.

2023-04-01 Fossil Fools’ Day at RBC – see blog post

350 Kingston joined SCAN (Seniors for Climate Action Now) Kingston, QBACC (Queen’s Backing Action on the Climate Crisis) for a RBC Divestment Rally outside the downtown RBC to highlight the insane fact the RBC is Canada’s biggest lender to fossil fuel projects, lending 262 Billion Dollars since the Paris Climate Accord was signed in December 2015.

2023-03-21 RBC Divestment Event – see blog post

2022-12-07 City and Climate Town Hall – Just Recovery Kingston and Kingston Youth Climate Action – Link to Recording

2022-11-27 Rally against Bill 23 in Confederation Park!! Defeating Bill 23 is a do-or-die moment for Ontario’s communities and ecosystems. The “More Homes Built Faster” act should be called “More Ontario Destroyed Forever.

2022-11-26 A celebration for  Laurel and her love of trees at the Grandma Oak on the Tannery Site.  A banner was placed on the fence.  People talked of her huge contribution to the life of Kingston.

2022-11-19 Kill the Drill Protest at RBC Main Branch

2022-09-23 Kingston Climate Strike as part of the Global Climate Strike & Launch of 50by2030Kingston.ca City Park  (See blog)

2022-09-17 –  Princess Street Promenade.  350 Kingston sponsored a booth.  (See blog)

Fast Fashion Protest – 2022-08-21, Princess St.  (See blog for pictures).

End Climate Delay: Kingston – Wed. June 29 2022, outside Mark Gerretsen’s office.

May 16 – Mobilizing for the Climate Emergency – Seth Klein  – Recording

 

May 10, the Providence Centre for JPIC is hosting a provincial election candidates’ debate on climate and the environment

North King’s Town Visioning Public Meeting -April 20, 2022 6:30 pm – Now via Zoom (More info…)

Fossil Fuel Funding by Banks protest – RBC downtown at Princess and King – Thursday, April 7th 11:30 to 13:00h.

March 25th, 2022 – Fridays4Future Global Climate Strike – Cataraqui Centre Mall

Day of Action (Note: our action was on the 11th not the 12th) – March 11th at Noon; Union St. and University Ave.   350 and Council of Canadians.

Jan. 13, 2022  the  Kingston Climate Change Symposium

Oct 29, 2021,  1PM – Day of Action – protesting RBC’s role in funding the fossil fuel industry

Oct 7, 2021 – Petition signing blitz in conjunction with the Council of Canadians – presented to Mark Gerretsen’s office staff

Sep 24, 2021 –  Global Fridays for Future Climate Strike, City Park.  View YouTube video.

Sep 8, 2021 – Canada on Fire.  QBACC and 350 Kingston.  City Park.

Aug 13, 2021 – Hot Enough Up Here? Devil Visits Kingston, Market Square.  View YouTube video.

Jan 25 – Apr 12, 2021 – Turning the Tide on Climate Speaker Series on Zoom.

May 27, 2019 – Green New Deal Town Hall – Memorial Room, Kingston City Hall, 216 Ontario St.

May 24, 2019 – May 24th Global Strike for Climate – Kingston City Hall, 216 Ontario St. Kingston

May 7, 2019 – Climate Emergency – Strategic Negligence – 143 Union St. W. in front of Goodes Hall

May 3, 2019 – Fridays for Future Climate Strike – Confederation Basin across from City Hall

May 9, 2018 – Stop the Kinder Morgan Bailout – Rally outside MP Mark Gerretsen’s office

March 23, 2018 – Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protest

March 10, 2018 – Stop Kinder Morgan Rally

November 29, 2017 – 350 Kingston Climate Forum

September 2, 2017 – Film Screening: An Inconvenient Sequel

June 4, 2017 – June Climate Potluck

May 7, 2017 – May Climate Conversations

April 30, 2017 – Film Screening: To the Ends of the Earth

April 9, 2017 – April Climate Potluck

March 12, 2017 – March Climate Potluck

February 19, 2017 – February Climate Potluck

January 8, 2017 – January Climate Potluck

December 4, 2016 – Climate Organizing Potluck

June 18, 2016 – People’s Climate Town Hall Meeting

Please email 350kingston@gmail.com if you are organizing or know of an event coming up and we’ll get it added here and amplify it on social media.