TriCities Urban Forest Working Group presents
Building an Affordable, Green and Climate-Ready City: what our elected representatives and residents can do

Saturday, November 29th, 2025
Registration 8:30 am
Event 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

St Laurence Anglican Church,
825 St. Laurence Street, Coquitlam

Event is free – all welcome!
Come early – space is limited!

Guest speakers:
DR. KATHLEEN ROSS (Coquitlam physician, and past-President of the Canadian Medical Association) “Why we need our city to be “climate-ready” & actions our elected representatives need to take to get us there”

THOM ARMSTRONG (Chief Executive Officer, Community Land Trust & Co-operative Housing Federation of BC) “Building Homes for People, Not for Profit”

CATHERINE BERRIS (Urban Planner & Past President of the Canadian Society for Landscape Architects) “Livable cities need shade and a healthy tree canopy: what is needed to achieve this”

DAVID QUIGG (Sierra Club BC & Project Leader: Sierra Club’s Climate-Ready Communities Toolkit for Local Governments) “What our elected representatives can do to protect our urban forest”

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