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Northern Environment Action Team (NEAT) is a grassroots, not-for-profit organization. Since 1989, NEAT has focused on increasing awareness of resource conservation, waste reduction and other urban environmental issues through educational programming, special events and other programs. NEAT’s philosophy is that simple, practical actions will lead to significant reduction in our personal environmental impact. NEAT has found that initiatives which promote change to a more environmentally responsible attitude are most effective when implemented at the community level and involve direct contact with people. NEAT believes that outreach programs will ultimately foster lifestyle changes in the community that will ensure the continuation of these positive actions and entrench them as accepted attitudes. NEAT is an award-winning organization and enjoys strong community support demonstrated by public participation and political support for its environmental educational initiatives.

Today, most of our population growth is being accommodated at the fringes of suburban cities in a sprawling, low-density fashion. These new communities are highly consumptive of rural and agricultural lands, energy, water and material resources, and create traffic congestion. As a result, they also emit damaging amounts of toxins and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. SUDA gathers and disseminates information about sustainable city-building, undertakes practical research as funds allow, and communicates with key stakeholders about opportunities and benefits of building environmentally-responsible communities.

The SLS Family Sports Centre and the Cochrane Arena facilities include ice arenas, indoor turf, gymnasium, gymnastics centre, running track and supporting public areas including meeting rooms, daycare, retail and health services areas. The Phase 3 expansion will add additional multi-season ice surfaces, more public areas, offices and meeting rooms to the SLSFSC multi-sport facility. This regional centre is growing to meet the demand of the growing regional population.

The quaint village of Kaslo is located on beautiful Kootenay Lake in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The Kaslo Trailblazers Society and its more than 200 members are dedicated to making our local wilderness accessible to everyone.

Canadian Rotarian Water Foundation supports the activities of the Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (Wasrag) by providing matching funds for Rotary projects. Wasrag, recognizing the importance of best practices in water and sanitation work, has developed strategic and business plans, focusing our work on areas of most need, building Regional Teams to undertake needs assessments in conjunction with local government, NGOs, and communities, out of which come Wasrag-endorsed project listings. Wasrag's other focus is on sourcing matching funds in addition to those provided by The Rotary Foundation. In Canada these funds will be provided through the Canadian Rotarian Water Foundation, to projects undertaken by Canadian Rotary clubs and districts.

The Foundation’s interactive website, seminars, lectures, books, field experiences and exhibitions supported by a range of media resources create the programs within which we can examine our relationship to the natural environment, its structure and ecosystems, our ethics and responsibilities. Sponsored seminars and exhibitions will make substantial contributions toward heightening a population-wide appreciation of our environment and advancing our individual and collective desire to contribute toward its well being for today and tomorrow.

Through CanadaHelps, your on-line donations will help support and improve trails throughout Oxford County. For alternate ways to donate, visit www.oxfordcountytrailscouncil.ca

The slaughter of wildlife is reaching unprecedented levels. Poaching of wildlife and elephants and rhino in particular, has escalated as a result of the rising demand for ivory in Asia and the Middle East. Some experts estimate that as many as 35,000 elephants a year are being slaughtered, 10% of Africa’s elephant population each year. Big Life Canada Foundation was established to combat the poaching of elephants and wildlife and to protect their habitat. Its current geographic scope is the Amboseli ecosystem, which straddles the Kenyan-Tanzania border, and is comprised of approximately 2 million acres. Big Life Foundation Canada will focus on establishing anti-poaching camps in the highest needed areas of Kenya & Tanzania.