Membership May 2023

Join us in May for a month-long celebration of the EAC community!

For the month of May, we celebrated the Ecology Action Centre’s community with a series of events throughout the province. It was a chance to celebrate the amazing people that help make our work possible every day.

Stay tuned for Membership May 2024! 

Event List

Check out the 2023 event list!

• Membership May Giveaway - EXTENDED! Monday, April 24 - Monday, May 8
  Enter our Membership May Giveaway for a chance to win some awesome prizes from East Coast Outfitters, Just Us! Coffee Roasters and Noel & Co. Candle Company! 
• Membership May Launch Party – Friday, May 5, 7 p.m. **REGISTRATION FULL!
  Good Robot Brewing, 2736 Robie Street, Halifax 
  Join us as we celebrate the kickoff of Membership May! The night will feature the launch of our GoodWill Partnership Beer as well as environmental-themed trivia.
• Documentary Film Screening and Social – Tuesday, May 9, 6–9 p.m. 
  Al Whittle Theatre/Just Us! Coffee House, 450 Main Street, Wolfville 
  Join us for a screening of Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?, a feature-length film about the biomass pellet industry in southeastern US, followed by a meet and greet with some of the EAC’s staff. Featuring a signature EAC cocktail, non-alcoholic drinks and free popcorn! 
• Propeller Community Cask Night – Friday, May 12, 6 p.m. 
  Propeller Brewing Gottingen Tap Room, 2015 Gottingen Street, Halifax 
  Stop by Propeller’s Gottingen Tap Room for a pint of their Charity Beer! Proceeds will go to support the EAC’s Green Avengers team in the 2023 Blue Nose Marathon!
• Kelp Products and Farming Info Session – Monday, May 15, 5–7 p.m. 
  Laughing Whale Coffee Roasters, 261 Lincoln Street, Lunenburg 
  Are you Kelp Kurious? Come learn how kelp farming can be a viable source of sustainable income for coastal communities, and about the EAC‘s work supporting this emerging opportunity in Nova Scotia – from seedling to product development!   
• 2023 Blue Nose Marathon – Friday, May 19 – Sunday, May 21 
  Downtown Halifax 
  The EAC’s Green Avengers team is lacing up to run in the Blue Nose Marathon again this year! Join our team, donate to their fundraising campaign and/or come cheer them on! 
• Electric Vehicle Test Drive Event – Thursday, May 25, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 
  Ecology Action Centre office, 2705 Fern Lane, Halifax 
  We’re partnering with Efficiency One’s Next Ride program to offer our members a chance to test drive an electric vehicle! 
• Guided Hike of Sandy Lake Regional Park – Saturday, May 27, 1–4 p.m. **REGISTRATION FULL!
  Sandy Lake Regional Park
  Join Karen McKendry, wilderness outreach coordinator with the EAC, for a guided hike through Sandy Lake Regional Park.
• Environmental Trivia at Island Folk Cider Cape Breton – Tuesday, May 30, 6:30 p.m. 
  Island Folk Cider House 52 Nepean Street, Sydney 
  Join us for a night of environment-themed trivia with awesome local prizes and short presentations on the EAC’s work in the Cape Breton area. Trivia will start at 7 p.m.! 
• Better Building Speaker Series – Tuesday, May 30, 4–5:30 p.m. 
  Online/webinar 
  Join our latest instalment of the Better Building Speaker Series, where we’ll learn how Indigenous consultation, landscape design and green architecture played a role in prioritizing intersectional sustainability in the construction of the new Mi'kmaq Centre for Healing and Resilience!