Here is a list of links to community organizations and resources that we have gathered through our last projects:
Our Working Group:
- Columbia Institute
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Ecojustice
- Fraser Basin Council and BC Climate Exchange
- Pembina Institute
- Sierra Club of BC
- Society Promoting Enviromental Conservation
- Wilderness Committee
More resources:
- http://www.myfootprint.org/ A cool, eye-opening Ecological Footprint Quiz
- http://www.onelesstonne.ca/ The One Less Tonne tool lets you choose among a wide selection of actions to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions.
- http://www.bchydro.com/powersmart/ Helps you to set energy reduction goals while keeping track of the process.
- http://www.citygreen.ca/ Energy Advisors offering energy efficiency options for your home, individualized retrofit plans and energy assessments, as well as info to access current grants and incentives available to reduce the costs of energy efficiency upgrades.
- http://www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com/ Light House is a local information and education centre offering ideas to make your home, work and community more sustainable.
- http://www.getlocalbc.org/en/ Get Local is a community of BC food producers, businesses, and groups promoting eating locally in the Metro Vancouver area.
- http://100milediet.org/category/vancouver Local resources for a local diet!
- http://vanrenewable.org/ The Vancouver Renewable Energy Coop (VREC) is a registered cooperative installing affordable renewable energy systems and a carbon offsets shop. Searching for the Good Life in Carbon Neutral BC:
- http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
- http://zerofootprint.myshopify.com/ Offers carbon offsets that support a forestation project in Maple Ridge, BC.
- http://freegeekvancouver.org/ Non-profit computer re-use & recycling centre.
- http://www.ediblelandscapes.ca/ The Sustainable Living Arts School offers programs in permaculture, water management, and subsistence gardening among many others.
- http://www.greenlearning.ca/ A learning resource for teachers.
- http://www.storyofstuff.com/ A 20-minute look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
- http://theclimategroup.org/ A great source of information on ideas about business and government leadership on climate change.
- http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/ A blog of a family's journey to reduce their impact on the planet.
- Hey-Way'-Noqu' Healing Circle for Addictions Society
- Directions Youth Services Centre
- Innervisions Recovery Center
- From Grief to Action/Parents Forever
- Native Courtworker and Counselling Assoc of BC
- Maple Ridge Treatment Center
- M.A.R.C. (Methamphetamine Response Committee)
- www.2020parenting.com
- www.gammaray.ca
- Keeping the Door Open Coalition
- www.no2meth.ca
- Immigrant Services Society of BC
- Progressive Intercultural Services Society
- South Asian Family Association info@safa.ca
- Surrey/Delta Immigrant Services Society
- VIRSA – Sikh Alliance Against Youth Violence
- UNITED
- A Community That Cares
Reading
- CCPA/SPARC co-publication "A Bad Time to be Poor: An Analysis of British Columbia's New Welfare Policies"
- Citizen's Handbook
- The Cost Shift Calculator
- PeaceVox
- PovNet BC
- Vancouver.IndyMedia.Org
- Women, Citizenship, and the End of Poverty by Hilkka Pietilä
Local Groups
- Building Community Assets
- Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom ~Vancouver Chapter
- Check Your Head
- City of Vancouver
- Civic Youth Strategy
- Community Solutions (TriCities: Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam/Port Moody)
- Community Learning Network (Vancouver)
- Council of Canadians
- Fair Vote Vancouver
- Fair Vote Canada
- Farm Folk City Folk
- IMPACS
- MOSAIC BC
- Self Help Resources Association
- Smart Growth BC
- SPARC
- Think Democracy
- Watari
Events and Actions
- BC Government Employees Union (petition against the two-year time limit)
- Citizen's Assembly
- Creative Resistance
- Democracy Watch
- Kinnex Youth Initiative - www.vcn.bc.ca/ypshra/
- LOVE (Leave Out ViolencE) - www.leaveoutviolence.com/
- Red Cross - www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000294
- Youth Co - www.youthco.org/
- Mind+Body+Love - www.mindbodylove.org/
- Kind Acts Association of BC - www.kindacts.net
- Invest in A Kinder World - www.investinakinderworld.com
- Gab Youth - www.lgtbcentrevancouver.com
- YouCAN - www.youcan.ca<
- Civic Youth Strategy - www.vancouveryouth.ca
- PR Watch - www.prwatch.org
- CBC One: Psychological Operations in Iraq - www.cbc.ca/webone/psyop/
- 101 Ways to Stop the War on Iraq - www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar/
Local (Vancouver-based) organizations working on water:
- CUPE BC (Canadian Union of Public Employees, BC Regional office)
Click here to get on the CUPE Water Watch listserve (to receive news about water struggles around the world) - Sierra Legal Defense Fund
- BC Tap Water Alliance
- The BC government and water:
BC Drinking Water Review Panel Report (released in Feb. 2002)
Global water sites
- The Water Observatory - a site "dedicated to providing information and resources to citizens, policy makers, the media, activist and movements working locally and globally on the right to water."
- Global Water Resource Management
* offers a huge network of links to information on water issues of all kinds! - Water and Globalization
- IMF and World Bank forced water privatizations
- Water and Development
Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations - Protection of Rivers (International Rivers Network)
Good papers and articles
- Security or Scarcity?: NAFTA, GATT and Canada's Freshwater
- The New Economy of Water: a report Detailing Water Privatization's Benefits and Pitfalls (Feb. 2002)
- Water privatisation: IMF and World Bank at the forefront : Poverty Reduction by Water Companies?
- IMF Forces African Countries to Privitise Water
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