July 31-August 2: BC Day Family Campout at Kennedy Lake in Clayoquot Sound

June-August: Western Toad Rescue, Chilliwack
August 6-8: N’Quatqua/Lost Valley Trail Club Trip
August 7: Demonstration Rally Against Environmental Degradation with Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis Call 604-826-6803 FREE Harrison Hills Community Hall
August 7: Langley Eats Local 2010
August 6-14, 14-21, 21-28, and August 28-September 6: Clayoquot River Valley Trips.
August 23: World Youth Conference, Mexico
 
August 31-September 4 GO BEYOND: Youth Action Gathering
September 24: Burns Bog Gala with motivational speaker Ray Zahab
Youth Action Gathering SYC: August 31-Sep 5 at Camp Capilano

ECO Film Classes: communications@media-net.bc.ca

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Organizations to Learn More About

The Commonsense Canadian

A New multimedia journal with Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis.  Read HERE

Abbotsford Middle School

http://www.abbymiddle.org/page20/page20.html

Abbotsford Middle alternate energy project launched a new alternate energy project that drives a computer lab at Abbotsford Middle School.  Three alternate energy sources are in place at the school – a wind turbine, solar panels and a bicycle driven generator—supply power for the lab and the school grid.  New technology allows two computers to power 12 stations, resulting in even more power savings. The project recently received local, provincial and national media coverage, and appears to be the only such powered lab in Canada.

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Burns Bog Conservation Society

GET INVOLVED!

The Burns Bog Conservation Society needs your help to carry out its programs. This includes providing facilities for public enjoyment (the boardwalks in the Delta Nature Reserve is an example), providing education (this includes bog-related educational material, field trips, summer day camps and public displays) and raising public awareness about current issues relating to peatlands, especially Burns Bog.

Contact: Bree at 604.572.0373 and sign up.

http://www.burnsbog.org/involved/

Delta, BC: As Environment Canada warns against the BC Government’s plan to put a truck highway through the historic community of Delta – saying it would destroy Burns Bog – federal Opposition Leader Stephane Dion visits the bog to learn about this unique and vital ecosystem and how an alternate route could save the Bog and avert other disasters like home expropriation, loss of farmland and sickness from air pollution.

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The Pacific Streamkeepers Federation
http://www.pskf.ca

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The BC Green Games

BC Green Games is a province-wide competition for students in Kindergarten to Grade 12, designed to motivate action, enable sharing and reward and celebrate the green efforts of schools in BC.

http://www.bcgreengames.ca/home.html

You will find a complete list of Winning Submissions and links to the projects here http://2009.bcgreengames.ca/gallery/the-winners.html

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http://www.fraservalleyconservancy.ca

The Fraser Valley Conservancy is a regional land trust committed to placing lands in trust for our future. In achieving this mission, we support and encourage voluntary land stewardship and provide conservation tools for those that wish to protect land of ecological and historic significance.

Land Stewardship: We provide advice and assistance to landowners completing wildlife habitat improvement projects including native planting and invasive species pulls. We also offer signed stewardship agreements.

Toad Rescue: We organize volunteers to assist with the annual migration of the Ryder Lake Western Toad population. We also are working towards long term solutions to reduce adult and juvenille toad mortality from vehicle traffic.

Species at Risk Workshops: We offer technical training for environmental consultants and municipalities working to protect at risk habitat.