Looking for a way to celebrate earth day in Ontario. Visit the Earth Day Canada site and see programs and activities happening all across Canada, with over 158 activities happening right here in Ontario. Activities include everything from clean-up projects, eco-festivals to conservation volunteering and educational earth-day programs.
Earth Day Canada is a national environmental communications organization mandated to improve the state of the environment by empowering Canadians to achieve local solutions. Since 1991, EDC has been coordinating Earth Day/ Earth Month events, and creating successful community programs. EDC is a registered charity, and the Canadian arm of Earth Day network. They have over 3,500 affiliated community-based organizations and 5,000 member organizations, EDC operates year round to provide resources, user-friendly programs and networking assistance to help Canadians help the Earth.
In the Haliburton area...check out the Haliburton Earth Day Family Festival hosted by toes member The Gaia Centre. The festival takes place April 25, 2009 at Fleming College, 297 College Drive in Haliburton, Ontario from 9:30-1:00 pm. Features include storytelling, games, arts, music and discovery! Fun, ideas and hands on experiences for the whole family. Special Guest, Jennifer Morgan, is a storyteller, author, parent, teacher, and corporate consultant. Workshops for all ages including "Peace Puppets for the Planet" , "Gardening with our 5 Senses" and "Earth Wise Parenting". For further information visit www.gaiacentre.org
Monday, April 20, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Saving Frogs With Art!
An artist (Erica Gajewski) is creating a work of art to be placed on the wall outside the Conservation Connection Centre at the Toronto zoo. It will be a depiction of a very large green frog. She is using text to fill in the image of the frog. The text is generated by asking people to answer the question "How would you feel if you never saw or heard a frog again?". Erica will need hundreds of answers in order to complete the frog.
Please take a few minutes to e-mail your answer to the question? One answer from an 11 year old-"I will feel sad because frogs are cool and they eat bugs. I hate bugs". A bit of a mixed message but you get the idea.
Help create art for conservation.
To email your answer or for inquiries please write Caroline Greenland (Manager of Education at the Toronto Zoo) at cgreenland@torontozoo.ca
Please take a few minutes to e-mail your answer to the question? One answer from an 11 year old-"I will feel sad because frogs are cool and they eat bugs. I hate bugs". A bit of a mixed message but you get the idea.
Help create art for conservation.
To email your answer or for inquiries please write Caroline Greenland (Manager of Education at the Toronto Zoo) at cgreenland@torontozoo.ca
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Make a Difference Volunteering Outside!
The Nature Conservancy of Canada runs a Conservation Volunteers Program. The goals of this program is to help protect Canada's biodiversity while providing a meaningful, hands-on ecucational experience in ecologically significant natural areas. In Ontario, NCC's Conservation Volunteers are working to help restore our natural areas including tackling problems with invasive species, assisting conservation scientists with monitoring rare species and contributing to important provincial surveys such as the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas. Since 2002, over 20,000 volunteer hours have been worked.
2009 Volunteer Events in Ontario
April 19, 2009: Wreck and Revive. Help clean up the Lathrop Nature Preserve.
April 25, 2009: Spring into Action. Community cleanup at Gillies Grove.
May 2nd, 2009: Greening Norfolk County. Help restore 23 acre property in the Southern Norfolk Sand Plain.
May 9th, 2009: Invasion at Cinnamon Bog II. Remove invasive species at Cinnamon Bog.
May 30, 2009: Bio Bonanza. Seeking local naturalists to help build a complete picture of the biodiversity on NCC's newest property in the lower Maitland River Valley
July 12, 2009: Carden Alvar Butterfly Count
July 28, 2009: Carden Alvar Dragonfly Count
September 18, 2009: The Great Pine Purge. Peter's Woods Provincial Natural Reserve.
Septembr 25, 2009: Tallgrass Harvest Hoedown V. Annual seed collection at Rice Lake Plains.
September 26, 2009: Another Return to the Savannah. Ecological restoration program at Savannah Links Golf Course/Native seeds collection.
You can find out more about volunteering in 2009 with Nature Conservancy in Ontario by visiting http://www.natureconservancy.ca/site/PageServer?pagename=vfn_volunteer_ON
and further information can be found about Nature Conservancy Canada by visiting http://www.natureconservancy.ca
2009 Volunteer Events in Ontario
April 19, 2009: Wreck and Revive. Help clean up the Lathrop Nature Preserve.
April 25, 2009: Spring into Action. Community cleanup at Gillies Grove.
May 2nd, 2009: Greening Norfolk County. Help restore 23 acre property in the Southern Norfolk Sand Plain.
May 9th, 2009: Invasion at Cinnamon Bog II. Remove invasive species at Cinnamon Bog.
May 30, 2009: Bio Bonanza. Seeking local naturalists to help build a complete picture of the biodiversity on NCC's newest property in the lower Maitland River Valley
July 12, 2009: Carden Alvar Butterfly Count
July 28, 2009: Carden Alvar Dragonfly Count
September 18, 2009: The Great Pine Purge. Peter's Woods Provincial Natural Reserve.
Septembr 25, 2009: Tallgrass Harvest Hoedown V. Annual seed collection at Rice Lake Plains.
September 26, 2009: Another Return to the Savannah. Ecological restoration program at Savannah Links Golf Course/Native seeds collection.
You can find out more about volunteering in 2009 with Nature Conservancy in Ontario by visiting http://www.natureconservancy.ca/site/PageServer?pagename=vfn_volunteer_ON
and further information can be found about Nature Conservancy Canada by visiting http://www.natureconservancy.ca
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