City of Kelowna Encourages Citizens to Adopt-a-Stream
The program encourages organizations to make a commitment to the environment. Healthy streams, even very small ones, are an asset to the community.
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Rainwater Management on Vancouver Island: Report from the VICT Co-Chairs
Local government action and support are resulting in a continuous increase of the number of LID projects which mimic natural rainwater processes such as infiltration.
WATER Institute at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center in Sonoma County
In 2004 the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) in Sonoma County established the WATER Institute (Watershed Advocacy, Training, Education & Research) to promote an understanding of the importance of healthy watersheds to healthy communities. OAEC’s WATER Institute builds upon their many years of regional watershed research, restoration, advocacy, community organizing, and activism.
Managing Stormwater in Your Community
Integated rainwater management planning is an approach that recognizes the complex relationship between the built and natural environment. This new planning approach integrates rainwater management with engineering, planning and the environment to reflect the values of each watershed and community.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
For more than two decades, CSE has been creating awareness about the environmental challenges facing our nation. Searching for solutions that people and communities can implement themselves. Challenging India to confront its problems. Inspiring it to take action. Pushing the government to create frameworks for people and communities to act on their own.
International Rivers Network (IRN)
IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
Earth Force
Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future. We do so by training and supporting educators in programs that enable young people to lead community action projects focused on creating sustainable solutions to local environment issues in the community.
Friends of Wetlands (FOWL)
A not-for-profit group dedicated to the preservation and restoration of wetlands throughout northern Ohio and the United States.
Blue Frontier Campaign (BFC)
BFC's goals include: organize a national conference of “seaweed” activists to help create a Blue Movement, campaign for an American Oceans Act to protect our public seas, work to improve ocean policies in America's 23 coastal states and their watersheds, support maritime community activists through a distribution of model policies and practices that work, among other actions.
Green Communities Association (GCA)
The GCA is a national network of community-based non-profit organizations that deliver innovative environmental programs and services, with a focus on household and community action. The GCA supports member organizations in working together to achieve environmental sustainability, including healthy ecosystems and communities, sustainable resource use, and clean air, water, and soil.