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Georgia Strait Alliance Strait Keepers

GSA Strait Keepers is committed to providing intertidal stewardship education and leadership through the process of community science training and in-community monitoring programs, involving beaches on the Vancouver Island and Gulf Island coasts. They are building a base of committed volunteers (including school groups) who are willing to learn more about the intertidal zone and collect data to be used as part of the GSA data base.

#12 Centennial Square, Victoria, BC, V8W 1P7
Tel: 250-381-8321
Email: cathy@georgiastrait.org
Website: http://www.georgiastrait.org

Green Street

This environmental education initiative provides free, pre-screened, action-based, curriculum aligned programs to elementary and secondary schools across Canada. Program providers and materials available from environmental organizations such as Ducks Unlimited, Evergreen, Sierra Club of BC , Canadian Nature Federation and CPAWS.

Tel: 1-877-250-8201
Email: lindsaye@green-street
Website: www.green-street.ca

Learning for a Sustainable Future

Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) is a non-profit group that works at all levels of education to promote and facilitate sustainable development education. They also facilitate the creation of partnerships and community-based networks composed of educators, students, community and business representatives and individuals. Their Guide for Engaging Students in Community Action Projects can be ordered from their web site.

343 York Lanes, York University
4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
Tel: 416 327-2032
Fax: 416 736-5436
Email: rubinoff@yorku.ca
Website: www.schoolnet.ca/learning

LifeCycles Project Society

Lifecycles is a non-profit, youth-driven community based organization dedicated to cultivating education and hands-on action projects around food, health and urban sustainability in Greater Victoria. They have school (Growing School), youth capacity building, internships and community programs.

527 Michigan Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 1S1
Tel: 250-383-5800
Fax: 250-386-3449
Email: info@lifecyclesproject.ca
Website: http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca

Living by Water Project

Living by Water Project is a national partnership group working toward healthier human and wildlife habitat along the shorelines of Canada. They offer programs, workshops, educational and promotional materials to help community groups in stewardship efforts - either to complement current programs and activities or to get started on a new shoreline related initiative: check out Community-based Action Program for Shorelines (CAPS), the Shoreline Ambassador Program , which provides recognition for work done, and "On the Living Edge - Your Handbook for Waterfront Living".

BC/Yukon Project Office
PO Box 7, Salmon Arm, BC, BC, V1E 4N2
Tel: 250-832-7405
Fax: 250-832-6874
Email: lbywater@jetstream.net
Website: http://www.livingbywater.ca

Nature Conservancy of Canada

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) uses donor dollars to buy and protect land. Since it was established in 1962, NCC and its supporters have helped to preserve a total of 1.68 million acres of ecologically significant land across Canada, an area the size of PEI. Students are encouraged to become aware of and visit ecologically significant areas in their region and many classes have raised money to help purchase them.

NCC British Columbia Office
26 Bastion Square, Suite 202
Victoria, BC V8W 1H9
Tel: (250) 479-3191 Toll-free: 1-888-404-8428
Fax: (250) 479-0546
Email: bcoffice@natureconservancy.ca
Website: www.natureconservancy.ca

Pacific Shorekeepers and Reefkeepers

Shorekeepers and Reefkeepers are trained volunteers who monitor the intertidal and subtidal habitats along B.C.'s coast. The data are collected by following written protocols to ensure they are of sufficient quality to be used by scientists and managers. Get your class involved: Contact them for educational resources and training of elementary to high school students in monitoring skills:

c/o Institute of Ocean Sciences
9860 W. Saanich Rd, Sidney, BC, V8L 4B2
Tel: 250-363-6395
Fax: 250-363-6310
Email: sihing@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Website: http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/protocol

Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute is dedicated to providing educators with comprehensive multi-media materials for teaching about global environmental issues. Environmental education programs include Re-energy.ca, a renewable energy project kit that can be downloaded and printed from the world wide web - for free! This Web-based tool features do-it-yourself plans to construct working renewable energy models including a solar car, solar oven, wind turbine, small-scale hydro generator, and a biogas generator, all of which produce useful energy. Grades 7-12: check out Climate Change Awareness and Action, a comprehensive multimedia package for teaching about climate change in secondary schools.

Box 7558 , Drayton Valley, AB, T7A 1S7
Tel: (780) 542-6272
Fax: (780) 542-6464
Website: http://www.pembina.org