Climate Moves: Walking the Talk

Upcoming Walks

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 9 am: Urban Exploration with Grant Pearsell

Join us for an experiential climate learning event: a guided walk through the river valley titled, “Walk Through Edmonton’s Overwritten Ecologies—Reading the Urban Landscape.”

Date: June 25th 2025, 9 am
Starting Location: Davies LRT Station, 75 Street and Wagner Road. Please note, the exact location is sent to you via the meeting invitation that confirms your registration.
Sign up: please contact Caroline Bomfim at carol.bomfim@edmonton.ca.

Stay tuned for more upcoming walks!

Previous Walks

Thursday, May 15, 2025: River Valley Walk with Malou Brouwer

This walk was presented as part of the City of Edmonton’s priority work on climate action, which focuses on providing learning opportunities that build awareness of climate impacts and how you can make a difference. 

On this river valley walk, participants “read” the local environment through poems by Edmonton-based Cree and Métis poet Naomi McIlwraith and Quebec-based Innu poets Marie-Andrée Gill and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. Simultaneously listening to the city, the North Saskatchewan river, and Indigenous women’s poems, what can/do we learn about colonization, decolonization, and climate? On this walk, we explored how poems from this place and other places can attune us to climate justice from Indigenous poetic perspectives.

Friday, October 25th, 2024: Soundwalk with Scott Smallwood

This walk, led by Dr. Scott Smallwood, guided participants on an exploration of the lost tributaries of Mill Creek and the soundscapes of climate change through slow practices of walking and deep listening. In this talk, Smallwood discussed the concept of urban sound walks as a practice for understanding the current state of our technological world. His talk advocated for walking in general, as a life practice (or life hack), but focused specifically on the practice of sound walks. It included discussion of the sound walk on Oct 11, 2024 that focused on lost waterways, as well as the history of sound walks, and the different approaches to the practice. In addition, it introduced the concept of deep listening, and led a short deep listening meditation designed by composer Pauline Oliveros.

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024: A Native Plant Walk at Dawson Park

Join Elisabeth Beaubien, Rocky Feroe, and Cherry Dodd on their second Native Plant Walk in Dawson Park. This is an opportunity to slow down, learn, observe, and attune as we reflect on the effects of climate change on our local environment. Meet at the amenity building in the park.

September 27, 2024: Native Plant Walk with Elisabeth Beaubien, Rocky Feroe, and Cherry Dodd

The Climate Moves team is thrilled for you to join us for the first event in our walk series, a Native Plant Walk in Dawson Park led by local plant experts Elisabeth Beaubien, Rocky Feroe, and Cherry Dodd. This is an opportunity to slow down, learn, observe, and attune as we reflect on the effects of climate change on our local environment.