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Second Nature – Second Nature assists colleges and universities to integrate sustainability as a core component of education and practice. In 2005, they will be launching a new higher education initiative that will focus on education for sustainable planning, design and engineering.
Organization: Second Nature
Climate Change Central 
– Climate Change Central is a public-private partnership that promotes the development of innovative responses to global climate change and its impacts. It builds links and relationships between businesses, governments and other stakeholders in Alberta, interested in pursuing greenhouse gas reductions initiatives.
Organization: Climate Change Central
Climate Change Saskatchewan – Climate Change Saskatchewan is a Public Education and Outreach (PEO) organization providing information on climate change.
Organization: Climate Change Saskatchewan
Climate.org – The Climate Institute has been a catalyst in moving the world to address climate change in a cooperative manner. It has become the leading international non-governmental organization of scientists and policy leaders concerned with climate change and protection of the stratospheric ozone layer, and has organized conferences, symposia, and ministerial briefings in thirty nations.
Organization: Climate Institute
David Suzuki Foundation – Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, forests and wild lands, climate change and clean energy and the web of life - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that help conserve nature.
Organization: David Suzuki Foundation
Wild Education – WILD Education features a wide range of learning resources to teachers of kindergarten through high school. Their programs inform young people about important conservation concepts, such as biodiversity, sustainability, ecosystem conservation, and endangered species recovery, while reinforcing skills, like analysis, communication, composition, reading, and research.
Organization: Canadian Wildlife Federation
The Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA) – The Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA) is a non-profit consensus-based association of senior representatives from government, industry and non-government organizations (including health and environmental groups) who have committed to developing and applying a comprehensive air quality management system for Alberta.
Organization: Clean Air Strategic Alliance
ClimateArk – The ClimateArk is a climate change portal and search engine dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable energy, energy conservation and ending deforestation.
Organization: Ecological Internet, Inc.
Climate Change Calculator
Organization: Climate Change Calculator
Climate Change and Canadians: Taking Action
Organization: Environment Canada
Evergreen – Evergreen is a national non-profit environmental organization with a mandate to bring nature to Canadian cities through naturalization projects. Evergreen motivates people to create and sustain healthy, natural outdoor spaces and gives them the practical tools to be successful.
Organization: Evergreen
Friends of the Rouge Watershed – Friends of the Rouge Watershed (FRW) work with youth and the community to protect, enhance and restore ecosystem beauty, health and integrity.
Organization: Friends of the Rouge Watershed
Global Environment Facility – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. GEF grants support projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants.
Organization: Global Environment Facility
Green Kids Incorporated – Green Kids Incorporated is a non-profit charity dedicated to environmental education for young people through theatre. Their vision is children changing the world, and their mission is to educate the public on environmental issues and to inspire them to take positive action towards protecting the environment.
Organization: Green Kids
Greenpeace - Climate Change – Greenpeace is a non-profit organization, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. As a global organization, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial world-wide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.
Organization: Greenpeace
Greenpeace Canada – Greenpeace Canada is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. They challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public.
Organization: Greenpeace Canada
Cities for Climate Protection – The Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign enlists cities to adopt policies and implement measures to achieve quantifiable reductions in local greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, and enhance urban livability and sustainability.
Organization: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
Campus Ecology – For more than a decade, NWF's Campus Ecology program has been helping transform the nation's college campuses into living models of an ecologically sustainable society, and training a new generation of environmental leaders.
Organization: National Wildlife Federation
The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development – The Pembina Institute is an independent, not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization. The Pembina 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.
Organization: Pembina Institute
Climate Change Solutions – Climatechangesolutions.com draws on the real-world experience of Canadian industry, governments and individuals to highlight the many untapped 'win-win' solutions available to address climate change. More importantly, the site provides easy access to the information, tools and resources needed to translate concerns about global climate change into concrete local actions that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Organization: Pembina Institute
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change – The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue. Their approach is based on sound science, straight talk, and a belief that they can work together to protect the climate while sustaining economic growth.
Organization: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Pollution Probe – Pollution Probe is a Canadian environmental organization that: defines environmental problems through research; promotes understanding through education; and, presses for practical solutions through advocacy. Pollution Probe is dedicated to achieving positive and tangible environmental change.
Organization: Pollution Probe
Resource Conservation Manitoba – Resource Conservation Manitoba (RCM) is a non-profit, non-governmental centre for environmental education and applied sustainability. Families, workplaces, schools, and communities look to RCM to provide practical information on active transportation, composting, energy efficiency and resource conservation.
Organization: Resource Conservation Manitoba
Saskatchewan Environmental Society – The Saskatchewan Environmental Society is a non-profit, registered charity whose mandate is to work towards a world in which all needs can be met in sustainable ways. Sustainability will require healthy ecosystems, healthy livelihoods and healthy human communities.
Organization: Saskatchewan Environmental Society
SEEDS Foundation – The SEEDS Foundation supports Canadian educators in promoting student literacy and active personal and societal responsibility for energy, sustainability and the environment. SEEDS develops educational resources that are bias balanced, easy to use, and fit within provincial and territorial curricula.
Organization: SEEDS Foundation
Sierra Club – The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization with more than 750,000 members. Inspired by nature, they work together to protect communities and the planet.
Organization: Sierra Club
Sierra Club of Canada – The Sierra Club of Canada (SCC) has been active in Canada since 1963 working to influence public policy and to raise environmental awareness. The SCC has developed major national campaigns within four program areas: Health & Environment, Protecting Biodiversity, Atmosphere & Energy, and Transition to a Sustainable Economy.
Organization: Sierra Club of Canada
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs – An interactive map that shows the harbinger and fingerprint events taking place around the world.
Organization: Union of Concerned Scientists
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - Climate Change Programme – The WWF's ultimate goal is to stop and eventually reverse environmental degradation and to build a future where people live in harmony with nature.
Organization: World Wildlife Fund
La pile à combustible (French site)
Organization: Pile A Combustible
Friends of the Earth International – Friends of the Earth International is the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 71 diverse national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent.
Organization: Friends of the Earth
Tree Canada Foundation – The Tree Canada Foundation provides education, technical assistance, resources and financial support through working partnerships to encourage Canadians to plant and care for trees in an effort to help reduce the harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
Organization: Tree Canada Foundation
BC Climate Exchange – 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.
Organization: BC Climate Exchange
Climate Change Connection Manitoba – Climate Change Connection aims to build awareness and to empower Manitobans to take action and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions - both individually and as a community. Climate Change Connection will work to assist Manitobans make the changes necessary to live more sustainable and climate-friendly lifestyles.
Organization: Climate Change Connection Manitoba
The New Brunswick Climate Change Hub – The New Brunswick Climate Change Hub facilitates the exchange of ideas, information and resources between government, private sector, and community-based organizations engaged in public education and outreach. By raising awareness of the impacts of climate change they hope to motivate the public to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their communities and daily lives.
Organization: New Brunswick Climate Change Hub
NWT Climate Change Centre
Organization: NWT Climate Change Centre
Nova Scotia Climate Change Centre – The goal of the Climate Change Centre is to increase awareness and motivate groups throughout Nova Scotia to develop and implement climate change and One-Tonne Challenge activities.
Organization: Clean Nova Scotia
PEI Climate Change Hub – The PEI Climate Change Hub facilitates the exchange of ideas, information, and resources between government, private sector and community-based organizations engaged in public education and outreach on climate change.
Organization: Climate Change PEI
Clean Air Partnership – Working in partnership with utilities, schools, businesses, governments and community groups, the Clean Air Partnership develops and delivers local market and community-based strategies to reduce energy use and clean the air as part of the effort to achieve healthy and sustainable local communities
Organization: Clean Air Partnership
Nature Challenge – The David Suzuki Foundation has researched the 10 most effective ways
for people to help conserve nature and our quality of life
Organization: David Suzuki Foundation
One Less Tonne tool – The Pembina Institute is an independent, not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization, founded in Drayton Valley, Alberta.
Organization: Pembina Institute
Active Transportation: Kwan Takes Up Cycling
Organization: Pembina Institute
Reducing Electrical Bills and GHG Emissions – A Smart Appliance Strategy
Organization: Pembina Institute
Handy Hints for a Pest-Free, Pesticide-Free Garden – When it comes to garden insects, it helps to know who your friends are and who the real pests are. Here are some tips for an organic bug balance
Organization: Earth Day Canada
What You Can Do - Your Yard – Make your garden and lawn environmentally safe places
Organization: Environment Canada
Go for Green - Gardening for Life – Gardening for Life is a national Go for Green program that supports the idea of natural gardening including such things as careful use of water, tree planting for home energy efficiency, and avoiding the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers
Organization: Go for Green
Waste Reduction Week – This site contains resources and contacts to assist your community, school or business with waste minimization and conservation initiatives.
Organization: Waste Reduction Week
Compost Guide – A complete guide to composting
Organization: Compost Guide
Earth 911 – It is the mission of Earth 911 to empower the public with community-specific resources to improve their quality of life
Organization: Earth 911
Climate Change Youth Café – Young Canadians speaking out on climate change.
Organization: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Pembina Institute – The Pembina Institute is an independent non-profit research, education and advocacy organization that promotes environmental, social and economic sustainability through the development of practical solutions for businesses, governments, individuals and communities. The Pembina Institute provides policy research leadership on climate change, energy policy, green economics, renewable energy, and environmental governance, as well as extensive formal and public education programs.
Organization: Pembina Institute
Environmental Youth Alliance – Environmental Youth Alliance is a non-profit, non-governmental charity dedicated to creating sustainable living alternatives. Our work consists of building rooftop gardens, developing urban agriculture options, environmental building projects and creating education strategies
Organization: Environmental Youth Alliance
Green Teacher – Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade levels
Organization: Green Teacher
Active & Safe Routes to School – Active & Safe Routes to School is a national program encouraging the use of active modes of transportation to and from school.
Organization: Go for Green
Earth Day Canada – Earth Day Canada ( EDC ) is a national charitable environmental communications organization. EDC is mandated to improve the state of the environment by empowering Canadians to take action and achieve local solutions
Organization: Earth Day Canada
Canadian Global Change Programme – Promoting informed action through sound advice on global change
Organization: Canadian Global Change Program
Canadian Wildlife Federation – CWF is dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of our natural world. By spreading knowledge of human impacts on the environment, sponsoring research, promoting the sustainable use of natural resources, recommending legislative changes, and cooperating with like-minded partners, CWF encourages a future in which Canadians may live in harmony with nature
Organization: Canadian Wildlife Federation
Yukon Conservation Society – Pursuing ecosystem well-being throughout the Yukon and beyond, recognizing that human well-being is ultimately dependant upon fully functioning, healthy ecosystems
Organization: Yukon Conservation Society
Nature Challenge for Kids – Ten fun and easy things to do together to protect nature
Organization: David Suzuki Foundation
Salt Spring Island - One Tonne Challenge
Organization: Earth Festival Society
Conservation International – Conservation International applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas as well as important marine regions around the globe.
Organization: Conservation International
Clean Nova Scotia – Clean Nova Scotia works with Nova Scotians to help them understand the importance of environmental responsibility and provide them with the means to make positive decisions about the environment. Their mission is working with Nova Scotians through education and action to achieve environmentally-healthy communities.
Organization: Clean Nova Scotia
