Thank you to all of you!

We are an organisation Powered by volunteers. Keep up the great work. Please keep letting POW know what climate action you'd like to see in the outdoor community.

First up! We're having a summer camp! We love summer too! It will be December 3rd-5th. We'll have lots of learning, climate advocacy and outdoor activities. This is a great chance for you and all of the POW community to connect, take action and move forwards as an organisation. If you'd like to join us or not please fill in this quick survey to make sure we can provide the right learning + outdoor activities. The location is TBD (please let us know if you have a preference in the survey). The costs (accommodation, food + activities) will be covered by POW.

Second up! We're starting our Hot Hot Planet Cool Athletes presentations (as soon as we're allowed into schools again). This is a fun, interactive way of getting school age kids onboard, thinking about protecting the places they love from the impacts of climate change and presenting them with hope and solutions.

We need some volunteers to help give these presentations. You'll get a buddy and all the training required. You'll also be compensated a small amount and get a POW T-shirt :). Please respond to this email if you're keen to help with this! Check out the POW Canada HPCA website for some info about the program.

Big thanks to the following people who have been especially helpful lately:

- Daniel Nogueira - For hosting a zero waste presentation benefiting POW and for lots of contributions over the past few months. 

- Angie Nelson for continuously making our membership cards

- Molly Hope and Sophie Moy for working super hard to get our POW pale ale ready. 

- Clair Sullivan for helping us save lots of time with our email database

- Hannah Marshall from Cold Snap Club for helping with some graphic images

- Jana McCall for helping out with our admin and grants

- Jaylene Harper for her help with grants, connecting mountain staff and some artwork

- Melanie Joan Llyod for her insights into the IPCC report

- Rachel Cooper for helping us with some important submissions

Volunteer opportunities and events coming up: 

- Help out as the POW Treasurer  (ongoing, about 1 hour/week) 

- Help host a Hot Planet Cool Athletes presentation (Now - Dec)

- POW Movie night in Wanaka (whenever we can host it again)

- Tree planting event in Canterbury (Early Oct)

- Share our campaigns on social media (always)

- Help out with the POW movie we're in the beginning stages of making

Other ways to help out. 

We're on the look out for more POW alliance members. We're keen to chat to anyone who has a large influence in any outdoor sport (skiing, snowboarding, trail running, mountaineering, mountain biking, climbing, adventure racing etc etc), is passionate about protecting the places they love from the impacts of climate change and keen to use their platform to share POW's advocacy work. If you know of anyone who would be a good match please get in touch. 

If anyone has any photos they can share with us we are always in need of more content. We're especially keen to get some photos of groups of climbers, hikers and mountain bikers. Send them our way if you've got any! 

Nga Mihi, 

The team at POW 

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