Alberta Environmental Network

About the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC)

The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC) is a registered non-profit society that has been a leader in the Edmonton environmental and cycling community since 1980. Our goal is to support the bicycle as a healthy and ecologically-sound mode of everyday urban travel, by providing bicycle services and resources.

Position overview

The Project Coordinator is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing the projects and operations of EBC. The position aims to further EBC’s goal of encouraging and facilitating bicycle use in Edmonton and promoting and strengthening our organization.

About the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC)

The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC) is a registered non-profit society that has been a leader in the Edmonton environmental and cycling community since 1980. Our goal is to support the bicycle as a healthy and ecologically-sound mode of everyday urban travel, by providing bicycle services and resources.

Position overview

The Outreach Coordinator is responsible for developing programs to improve our services and strengthen our programs as they relate to communities and needs not currently well-served. The position aims to further EBC’s goal of encouraging and facilitating bicycle use in Edmonton and promoting and strengthening our organization.

Originally posted to Canada’s Green Job Site, http://www.GoodWorkCanada.ca

About the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC)

The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ Society (EBC) is a registered non-profit society that has been a leader in the Edmonton environmental and cycling community since 1980. Our goal is to support the bicycle as a healthy and ecologically-sound mode of everyday urban travel, by providing bicycle services and resources.

Position overview

The Summer Programs Director is responsible for program development, volunteer management, and coordination of special events. The position aims to further EBC’s goal of encouraging and facilitating bicycle use in Edmonton and promoting and strengthening our organization.

Great News! Deep Green Resistance Training Deadline Extended to March 24!

Due to the importance of having this training in Alberta, the organizers - Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen, have decided to remove the cap on the number of participants allowed to attend. The deadline for registrations is now March 24^th. Please pass on to folks who might be interested!

Derrick Jensen’s Deep Green Resistance Training — Register Now!

Derrick Jensen and rad co-facilitating friends are likely gonna be coming to Edmonton on March 26-28 to do a 3-day intensive workshop called Deep Green Resistance. This 3-day workshop is particularly relevant to those of us who have been resisting the industrial developments of more tar sands, nuclear power and other environmental destructive projects. By bringing this conference to the prairies we will be building on the grassroots community that is already coming together, building on our network and strengthening our skills to bring about the changes we need to see.

The Deep Green Resistance training is a three-day workshop for activists, changemakers, and other concerned or inspired folks who are interested in delving into some critical reflection on the state of the world and our role in fixing it. We live in the most destructive culture to ever exist. Yet does our activism reflect that? If we really accept the seriousness of the situation, what would that mean for our strategy and tactics? How do we build up a culture of resistance? These are some of the questions that will be explored over the weekend, while we build on our skills to continue doing good works.

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Who We Are

Inside Education™ is a leading non-profit, natural resources and environment education society. Our award-winning work connects formal education to science, technology and environment issues. We reach over 25,000 students each year, in over 100 rural and urban communities across Alberta and beyond. We also support educators in the K-12 school system with an extensive range of curriculum-relevant programs and services related to Alberta’s forests, energy and water resources. This year we are celebrating our 25^th anniversary of leadership in environmental education!

 Opportunity

We have a full-time, spring seasonal position for a 2-month term to support the delivery of wetlands education programs in northern Alberta. Based from our Edmonton office, the successful candidate will be involved in the direct delivery of information related to Alberta’s wetland ecosystems to school children through classroom presentations and outdoor field trips at various sites across the province. Due to the nature of our work throughout the province, regular travel and occasional overtime is required.

What are Transition Towns?

Transition Towns (TT) are communities that seek out methods for reducing energy usage as well as increasing their own self reliance in positive response to climate change and ever-escalating prices in fossil fuels. They’re places that are more economically independent, ecologically sound, and socially connected. As a globally-connected marketplace, we are coming to realize that unbridled growth is not sustainable, and that reliance on imports from afar may become an impossibility within just a few years.

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As shale gas discoveries greatly expand already abundant reserves of natural gas, the economics of EnCana’s application to drill an additional 1,275 gas wells within Suffield National Wildlife Area are becoming ever more questionable. The Suffield Coalition has long argued that it would be economically imprudent and not in the public interest to approve EnCana’s application. In June, EnCana announced it was shutting in gas wells because of low demand and prices, so the time may be just right for EnCana to abandon further drilling within Suffield National Wildlife Area.

Join the Adopt-a-Plant Alberta Steering Committee!

Do you have a passion for the conservation of rare plant species in Alberta?

Do you want to make a difference?  If your answer to these questions is ‘Yes’ we want to hear from you!

Adopt-a-Plant Alberta (APA) is seeking an energetic and self-motivated individual to join the volunteer Steering Committee. As a Steering Committee member, this individual will help provide strategic direction for the program and help to build upon the existing base of support for APA at a grassroots level. If you are an enthusiastic botanist or rare-plant enthusiast with strong ties to the volunteer botanical, academic, or professional community you may be perfectly suited to this role. We encourage students or young people to apply.

The Alberta government’s recent decision to suspend the province’s grizzly bear hunt for 2010 is good news for the bears. With a current population estimate of 691 bears in Alberta, the species requires legal protection from harm, not deliberate killing, say Alberta’s conservation organizations.

“We applaud the Minister for continuing the government’s commitment to removing one avoidable cause of grizzly bear deaths,” says Nigel Douglas, Alberta Wilderness Association conservation specialist. “It is important that that the new minister for Sustainable Resource Development has reaffirmed the commitments of his predecessor.”