School Closure Activities

We are posting a collection of educational content each week for parents and students each week during the school closure. Check back on our webpage or social media!

Waste Reduction Week – Waste Forum: COVID-19 Edition

Waste Forum: COVID-19 Edition Join Ecology North for a Waste Forum: COVID-19 Edition discussing how the pandemic has impacted waste management and operations in Yellowknife. Stakeholders have been invited to share setbacks and/or opportunities they have experienced throughout the pandemic. Guest speakers will include: Chris Vaughn, Manager, Sustainability and Solid Waste Management; Jason Brinson, Executive Director, ... Read more

Screening of “Happening to Us” – a Tuk TV Film

Northern United Place 5403 Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, NT, Canada

Ecology North will be hosting a FREE film screening of the short 20-minute film, Happening to Us, brought to you by Tuk TV. Experience the impacts of climate change through the eyes of Inuvialuit youth from Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, a remote community on the coast of the Arctic ocean. Come watch this incredible film as ... Read more

Free

Online Book Launch with Jamie Bastedo – PROTECTORS OF THE PLANET

ZOOM

Ecology North has teamed up with the Yellowknife Book Cellar and nature writer Jamie Bastedo to host a virtual book launch of Jamie’s latest title “Protectors of the Planet Environmental Trailblazers from Age 7 to 97”. This book takes you on a deep dive into the lives of a dozen eco-heroes from across Canada who ... Read more

Free

Water Week 2021

Ecology North is hosting a number of events during Water Week starting on Sunday, March 14th, 2021 and ending on World Water Day, Monday, March 22nd, 2021. POSTPONED: Ice Road Run to Dettah Tuesday, March 16th, 2021: Panel Discussion with Samuel Gargan and Daniel T’seleie Wednesday, March 17th, 2021: Film Screening: Cold Amazon Monday, March ... Read more

POSTPONED Ice Road Run to Dettah

Dettah Ice Road School Draw Avenue, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

This event has been postponed due to extreme weather warnings. Meet us at the Ice Road entrance by Rotary Park for a socially distant physical activity between 10:00am and 1:00pm on Sunday, March 14th, 2021. Any form of active transportation such as walking, running, kicksledding, fat biking is welcome! Go the entire 12km to Dettah ... Read more

Protecting Water Resources – Panel Discussion with Samuel Gargan and Daniel T’seleie

ZOOM

This panel discussion will feature Samual Gargan, Keepers of the Water Board Member, and Daniel T’seleie, K’asho Got’ine Chief Negotiator, which will be held via ZOOM from 12:00PM to 1:00PM on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021. Join by going to this web address at the time of the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83979949728. This event is made possible thanks ... Read more