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Be the Change Earth Alliance is a Canadian charitable organization that brings sustainability education programs to schools and communities to create environmental and social change. Our programs empower people of all ages to connect, understand and actively respond to the sustainability challenges facing our planet. Your donations will be supporting STUDENT LEADERSHIP IN SUSTAINABILITY, an innovative program that provides teachers and students with a groundbreaking educational curriculum for environmental sustainability, global citizenship, and youth empowerment. The 4,000 students currently using SLS are creating local solutions to global sustainability issues and your donations will help us bring SLS to more schools! A donation of $5 dollars will bring Student Leadership in Sustainability to a student. A donation of $100 will bring Student Leadership in Sustainability to a whole classroom. A donation of $250 will bring Student Leadership in Sustainability to an entire grade.
Our work is focused primarily in Peterborough City and County. Our Vision is to affect significant learning and development at the individual, organizational and community levels through collaborative community-academic relationships. This work will enhance the social, environmental, cultural and economic health of our communities.
No.9 is a not-for-profit arts organization that provides artists who address social and environmental issues with the opportunity to make ambitious work in the public realm. No.9 also has a wide variety of education programs and events to expand on the ideas behind our public projects, such as artist talks, film presentations, and multidisciplinary symposia. In collaboration with our artists' projects, these programs will make our audiences more aware of their environment, the impact they have on it and the opportunities for local and global change.
The Farmlands Trust Society was established in March 2008 to enhance the farming capability of Mt. Newton Valley, rehabilitate the stream ecology of Hagan Creek and create a community trail system. In the summer of 2009, the members began expanding the geographic, and social scope of the organization to cover all the peoples and lands of Greater Victoria. As a professional organization, the members declared the next phase of its mandate would emphasize collaboration, farmland management and outreach to meet the community's requirements among the socially disadvantaged/marginalized individuals in our society. Charitable Status was granted in June 2011 by Canada Revenue Agency.
The Trans Canada Trail is a 22,500-kilometre recreational trail winding its way through every province and territory, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Arctic Oceans. When completed, it will be the world's longest recreational trail, linking close to 1000 communities and over 34 million Canadians. Today almost 73 percent (16,800 kilometres) is developed. Thousands of people are taking to the Trail to walk, hike, cycle, ski, horseback ride, canoe and snowmobile.
We help install and monitor barrier fencing and culverts to reduce road mortality of amphibians in coastal British Columbia. We monitor how well these mitigation efforts work to improve habitat connectivity. We also help protect wetlands from habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, and disease. We share information and promote stewardship of wetland habitats through public slideshows, workshops, school programs and by providing scientific advice to land owners and local planning departments. We highlight the connection between productive wetland habitat, water quality and human health in our presentations.
To provide clean water where needed most by developing and implementing sustainable projects in partnership with key stakeholders.
Our work inspires a vital re-connection between people and nature, community and oneself. We work primarily with children and families in the urban context. Our summer programs now include day and overnight camps in Muskoka as well as Toronto, and a regional training course for adults with a focus on nature connection, mentoring, community building and intergenerational learning. We currently work with over 1800 people per year, with over 500 in long term mentoring relationships where we support children to grow into healthy, active, and resilient people. Our goal is to inspire nature connection in childhood, and long term mentoring relationships to communities all across Ontario.
We work to conserve Huronia's non-renewable natural and cultural heritage between Georgian Bay and the City of Barrie and between the City of Orillia and the Town of Wasaga Beach. Huronia Land Conservancy: - Works cooperatively with private landowners, government and community groups. - Preserves species at risk and key natural habitats. - Conserves archaeological sites highlighting Huronia's 11,000 years of human history. - Safeguards the region's drinking water by protecting areas of groundwater recharge. - Creates key corridors and buffers between existing park and conservation lands. - Supports scientific and archaeological research. - Stresses the importance of education in heritage conservation. - Contributes to the aesthetic preservation of the Huronia landscape.
We believe in the importance of connecting children to the land and providing them with opportunities to learn and grow in natural ways. Our facilitator and our volunteers are passionate about children and the natural world. We believe in engaging children’s imagination, modeling a sense of awe for the natural world, and using experience as the basis for learning. Simple activities linked with unstructured play can teach many valuable academic and social skills, like cooperation, communication, and leadership.
Since 2001, we have developed a comprehensive program of work to support, maintain and promote biocultural diversity on all levels through: - fostering the development of policies that recognize the vital importance of the diversity of life in nature and culture, and promoting actions to implement that policy at the international and national levels - mapping of the geographic distribution of biocultural diversity - the development of key indicators to detect changes in traditional ecological knowledge, linguistic and biocultural diversity over time - collaborating with schools to develop an integrative BCD educational curriculum - forging a global network of biocultural diversity conservation practitioners and projects - establishing partnerships with Indigenous Groups to document Oral Literatures
The Young Naturalists Club of NS is a free nature club for youth that imparts natural history knowledge through interactions with adult naturalists and through experiences in nature. Club members learn about Nova Scotia's wildlife species, and the importance of wildlife habitat conservation. A strong conservation ethic is developed in Club members through positive experiences with naturalists and during wildness experiences. There are currently 5 YNC chapters across Nova Scotia.