The Beaver River is very much alive. Alive with melt, with fresh flow, with gurgling icy watery movement. The winter is shedding quickly in the heat of the morning sun and the river is carrying it all.
Beaver River before flooding (March 7, 2026).
Spring offers an invitation for a fresh way forward. Sometimes in soft, warm breezes. Sometimes with strong ice break and flooding. What structures and boundaries need to breakdown with the melt for new pathways to become clear? What are the bold opportunities for rejuvenation and growth? What seeds do we want to plant? What futures do we need to carve out? What is the potential for this change and this season?
spring 2026 reading list & Dates
The spring vibe for our our climate care book club is potential. All books authored by women (2/3 Canadian women). This season, we are shifting some of the dates to the 2nd Wednesday of the month so please take note.
April 1st, 2026, 8pm ET
Potential to be ambitious, resilient and fighting for change inspired by Catherine McKenna’s memoir Run Like a Girl.
“From Olympic dreams to the frontlines of politics and climate action, Run Like a Girl is a bold, unfiltered memoir from Catherine McKenna, Canada’s former Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Known for leading the charge on Canada’s carbon pricing plan and enduring sexist attacks as “Climate Barbie,” McKenna shares an inspiring journey of reinvention, resilience and defiance in the face of expectations.”
May 13th, 2026, 8pm ET
The potential of a seed slipping beyond a garden wall inspired by Jessica Lee’s Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging.
“Dispersals draws a gorgeous, sprawling map of the diaspora of flora. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.”
An instant Toronto Star Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
June 10th, 2026, 8pm ET
The potential for deep insight, clarity and hope from our climate/science fiction selection: Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers.
Becky Chambers' delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future.
Becky Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
2026 Climate Care Retreat
Our 5th Annual Self Care for Climate Care Retreat will be held May 29-31st 2026 in Thornbury Ontario.
We will explore the hiking trails and forests, practice yoga and Qigong, sit by the campfire, relax and share meals together.
There is no cost to attend the retreat, but we all share in costs for food and activities. Community care and connection in practice. More details included in the RSVP link below. Spaces are limited.
This retreat will be hosted on the lands of Historic Treaty 18 and the traditional territories of the Petun, Odawa, Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Wendake-Nionwentsïo and Mississauga Nations.
Hope to see you at book club and our annual retreat this spring - this season is full of potential!
Take good care of each other.
Megan
