Try walking or riding your bike to work if you can. Even 1 day a week has an impact.
Purchase an electric bike to make your active transportation easier.
You can get money back on an electric bike.
Find Good Energy rebates for electric bikes.
What you can do
Small actions for individuals
Active Transportation
Carpool or take public transit
Try carpooling with other family members or colleagues. If you live in Whitehorse, try using the city's public transit system.
Carpooling and taking public transit reduce the number of vehicles on the road and helps reduce our overall emissions. Even 1 day a week has an impact.
Look at the City of Whitehorse's transit schedule.
Reduce your electricity use during peak hours
You can help lower the Yukon's electricity demand during peak hours. Reduce your electricity use during peak hours between 7 am and 11 am and 5 pm and 7 pm.
Reducing your electricity use during peak hours help reduce the amount of liquefied natural gas and diesel we use.
Check out Yukon Energy's Peak Smart program.
Be an environmental steward
Join an annual garbage clean-up day or organize one in your neighbourhood.
Help take care of trails you enjoy in your community.
Take a course in safe and responsible hunting practices, such as the Yukon hunter education course.
You can read the Hunt wisely guidebook to hunt safely and responsibility.
Enhance and understand your health by tracking air quality.
Be prepared for climate impacts on the land
You can prepare for things such as flooding, poor air quality due to wildfire smoke, and extreme heat.
Take a first aid course and make an emergency kit to be more prepared for an emergency situation.
Learn more about emergency preparedness and safety.
Learn how to prepare for wildfire smoke and how to check smoke conditions.
Stay up to date on flooding conditions through the Yukon Flood Atlas.
Buy local food
You can strengthen food security by buying local foods and supporting local farmers and producers.
- Find local food producers and their products through the Yukon Agricultural Association's Farm Products and Services Guide.
- Find Yukon Grown food products. These products meet certain guidelines for being raised or grown in the Yukon.
Adopt a zero-waste mindset
Zero waste means striving to produce no garbage that needs to be landfilled. This might not be your first step, but you can try new things to reduce your consumption and waste.
- Say no to plastics and single-use disposable items as much as possible.
- Use reusable grocery bags when doing food and other shopping.
- Use refillable containers for your soap, shampoo and other items at local vendors that support this option. In Whitehorse there's Aroma Borealis, Riverside Grocery and the Yukon Refillery.
- Organize closing swaps or donate your used clothing to a thrift or consignment store in your community.
- Lead share resource projects such as a tool library or community garden to share items and cut back on consumption.
Learn more about zero-waste practices from Raven ReCentre.
Become a climate leader
Organize group learning activities such as:
- a climate action committee;
- a climate action book club; or
- a lunch and learn series with guest speakers.
Volunteer with a local conservation society such as CPAWS Yukon or Yukon Conservation Society.
Organize a climate event such as a:
- Fridays for Future strike at your school; or
- a Climate Change Theatre Action event in your community.
Explore a career in the trades and joining the green economy.