The Green Resilience Project (GRP) partners with local individuals and organizations to host community conversations and action-oriented engagements that explore the connections between climate change, income security, and community resilience.
Launched in 2021 with support from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund, GRP began as a series of community-led conversations across Canada focused on livelihoods, incomes, and resilience in a net-zero future. Working alongside climate, income security, labour, and community partners, the project created space for perspectives that are often missing from policy discussions and supported locally driven advocacy and collaboration.
Lately, GRP is focusing on community engagement initiatives that lay groundwork for advancing climate action in Canada by engaging farmers and rural communities in locally-driven, equity-focused conversations.
The GRP has been named one of the Top Projects for 2026 by Canada’s Clean50.
Mission
GRP’s goal is to ensure climate policies and solutions are inclusive, equitable, and grounded in real community needs. We support approaches that meet people where they are and offer tangible benefits, recognizing that this leads to broader support for meaningful climate action. We also work to integrate a climate lens into policies and initiatives related to community well-being — including income security, housing, food systems, transportation, and dignity.
Our approach is intentionally hands-off. We recognize that community partners are the experts in their own contexts, and that lasting solutions must be shaped from within. GRP offers funding and optional resources to support work that communities are already leading, while centering listening, trust, and local knowledge as the foundation for climate resilience.
How the Green Resilience Project Works
The Green Resilience Project partners with local individuals and organizations to support community-led conversations and engagement activities that explore the links between climate change, income security, affordability, and community resilience.
GRP is managed and delivered by Energy Mix Productions and the Basic Income Canada Network, and is currently a project of Small Change Fund.
Partner-led conversations and engagement activities create space for participants to identify connections between climate impacts and everyday challenges, or to integrate a “missing lens” into existing community work. GRP provides funding and optional resources to support and strengthen initiatives that partners are already leading.