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Environmental Education

Are you a school teacher looking for environmentally-related school programs or workshops? Check out the resources below!

• BC Climate Exchange   
  [last updated: Jul 6/09]

  The purpose of BC Climate Change Exchange is to facilitate interaction between the various government, civil society and private sector organizations in BC engaged in public education and outreach on climate change, impacts and solutions.
  contact: Elizabeth Henry
  Program Coordinator
  Fraser Basin Council
  Tel: 604-488-5363
  Fax: 604-488-5351
  email: ehenry@fraserbasin.bc.ca
  website: www.bcclimateexchange.ca/index.php
  
  

• David Suzuki Foundation   
  [last updated: Jul 6/09]

  Focusing on four program areas - oceans and sustainable fishing, forests and wild lands, climate change and clean energy, and the web of life - the David Suzuki Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that help conserve nature.
  contact: Local: 604-732-4228 in the lower mainland
  Toll free: 1-800-453-1533 in the rest of Canada
  Fax: 604-732-0752
  email: contact@davidsuzuki.org
  website: www.davidsuzuki.org
  
  

• Eco Education BC   
  [last updated: Aug 19/03]

  Eco Education's mission is to foster the development of lifelong respect, understanding and care for the environment in young British Columbians by providing accessible province-wide educational resources and learning opportunities.
  website: bccf.com/ecoed/
  
  

• Endangered Species - Royal BC Museum   
  [last updated: Jun 25/09]

  As part of a Canada-wide digital collections project, this internet exhibit provides information on some of the rare and endangered plants and animals in the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia.
  website: www.bcarchives.bc.ca/School_Programs/end_species/index_es.html
  
  

• Environmental Education Program - Sierra Club of BC   
  [last updated: Aug 19/03]

  The Sierra Club offers a full range of environmental programs for students in Kindergarten to grade 12.
  website: www.sierraclub.ca/bc/Education/Education_index.html
  
  

• Environmental Educators of BC   
  [last updated: Aug 19/03]

  EEBC's mission is to expand BC's network of formal and informal environmental educators and improve public access to current ideas, information and curriculum resources in the multi-disciplinary field of environmental education.
  website: www.eebc.ca
  
  

• Institute of Urban Ecology   
  [last updated: Jun 26/09]

  Since 1984 the Institute has been conducting biophysical inventories, offering environmental education programs and creating more natural habitat. Their activities involve students of all ages and community volunteers. Their most popular project is Green Links, which aims to connect isolated patches of green space. This helps to improve biodiversity throughout Greater Vancouver by creating larger breeding populations and more robust food webs. Since 1996 community members have planted over 40,000 trees, shrubs and flowers.
  contact: Tel: 604-527-5522
  Fax: 604-527-5095
  email: iue@douglas.bc.ca
  website: www.douglas.bc.ca/visitors/urban-ecology.html
  
  

• Pembina Institute   
  [last updated: Jun 23/09]

  The Pembina Institute is an independent, not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization, founded in Drayton Valley, Alberta. The Institute's major policy research and education programs are in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, environmental governance, ecological fiscal reform, sustainability indicators, and the environmental impacts of the energy industry.
  website: www.pembina.org
  
  

• Re-Energy.ca   
  [last updated: Jul 6/09]

  Re-Energy.ca is a renewable energy project kit that explores wind energy, water energy, solar energy, biomass energy and more. Re-Energy.ca is a hands-on renewable energy learning experience that allows students in grades 7 through 12 to discover the fundamental principles of biology, chemistry and physics, and to explore the application of science and technology to social and environmental issues.
  contact: Tel: 780-485-9610 Ext. 102 for general inquiries.
  Attention Re-energy.ca Coordinator
  2nd. fl. 10008-82 ave.
  Edmonton, Alberta
  Canada T6E 1Z3
  email: education(at)pembina.org.
  website: www.re-energy.ca