Join Seniors for Climate Action Now! Guelph, OPIRG Guelph, Guelph-Wellington Coalition for Social Justice, and Water Watchers for a film screening exploring the fascinating diversity of wetlands and their crucial role in moderating climate change, followed by a panel discussion. 

In the film Mission to Marsh, a German pair explore various kinds of wetlands from Canada's far north to  South America. We picked this film because we wanted to have conversation and educate people about the serious risk Canada's northern wetlands are facing. The Ring of Fire is a massive, remote, and carbon-rich peatland/wetland complex covering roughly 5,000 square kilometres. It's known for significant critical mineral deposits (chromite, nickel, copper), and it is part of the world's second-largest undisturbed peatland, creating high-stakes conflicts between mining development, environmental preservation, and Indigenous land rights. 

📅 Sunday, April 26 | 🕖 7:00 PM 

📍The Bookshelf, Guelph, ON

$10 or pay what you can

➡️ View the trailer here ⬅️

Featured Panellists:

Mr. Jeremy Shute is a professional planner with Shared Value Solutions, as well as a mediator, facilitator and cartographer.  He  is known more locally for his family paddle, from Guelph to the Atlantic, and he has also studied and published books about the underground rivers/creeks in this area.  For fun he hosts "creek camps" in the summer, where he takes the kids on exploration of our local creeks and so, so much more. 

Dr. Susan Glasauer is an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science at U of G and is a past Board member of Water Watchers. Her research area is wetlands, biogeochemistry, metals, microbiology and soil chemistry. Her current work involves bioremediation of wetlands. She has been interested in wetlands since she was a teenager! and is currently the president for the Canadian chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Her research has two main directions: the ability of wetlands to retain elements of concern such as arsenic and uranium, and the changing capacity of wetlands to store carbon in response to the climate crisis. She calls these biological hotspots the “Earth’s kidneys” because of  their astonishing ability to clean up water.