About the AEN

The Alberta Environmental Network (AEN) connects Albertans and environmental groups that are dedicated to preserving and protecting Alberta’s environment. As a non-profit and non-partisan organization, the AEN supports collaboration of the environmental community throughout the province.

Learn more about the Alberta Environmental Network.

Connecting Alberta’s environmental groups

We are a network of individuals and groups working together on shared concerns. AEN members include individuals and representatives from member groups that connect, collaborate and share information.

The AEN is a link between the environmental community and government, industry, the media and all Albertans.

Join the network

Albertans and environmental groups are welcome to join the AEN as members – there are memberships for both individuals and groups. Members contribute to preserving and protecting Alberta’s environment by sharing information and collaborating on shared issues. Learn more about becoming a member of the AEN.

The AEN supports an inclusive and diverse environmental community for all Albertans. 

Nominations for Emerald Awards close on 28 February 2006

Emerald Awards: celebrating environmental excellence in Alberta

What do the Beaver Creek Watershed Group and Cochrane High School have in common? Or the Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society and Highmark Renewables Inc.? These are just four of the Emerald Award recipients recognized at the Emerald Awards celebration held last June.

There are many more individuals and organizations in Alberta that should be similarly recognized. If you would like to nominate a group, individual, business or organization that has demonstrated environmental excellence and gone "above and beyond" what is expected to protect, preserve, enhance and sustain our environment, please submit a nomination for the 2006 Emerald Awards to the Alberta Emerald Foundation for Environmental Excellence. Read More

Sierra Club Workshops at Alberta Ecohome

This coming weekend (Jan. 28, 29) will be your last chance to tour Alberta Ecotrust's Ecohome to learn about energy efficiency and the progressive route the building market is moving in. Open 11-4 for viewing. 566 Chaparral Drive S.E. It will be closed after this weekend as it has been sold.

Sierra Club is hosting the Ecohome this weekend and also presenting the following workshops:

  1. Saturday, Jan. 28 @ 10 a.m. - Urban Sustainability (Brian Pincott)
  2. Saturday, Jan. 28 @ 1 p.m. - Waste Management (Rich Larson and Shane Bill)
  3. Sunday, Jan. 29 @ 1 p.m. - Natural Landscaping (Steve Repic and Barb Kinnie)

To register for workshops call Stuart at Alberta Ecotrust: (403)209-2245 or email [email protected]. Read More

Government breaks policy to allow industrial use of Little Smoky caribou range

Alberta Wilderness AssociationCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Edmonton ChapterFederation of Alberta Naturalists

News Release: January 24, 2006

"The new sale of oil and gas land leases in the heart of habitat for the Little Smoky Woodland Caribou herd, and logging by West Fraser are contrary to the government's own policy," says Helene Walsh of CPAWS: The 1996/1997 Operating Guidelines for Industrial Activity in Caribou Ranges in West Central Alberta state: Industrial activity can occur on caribou range provided the integrity and supply of habitat is maintained to permit its use by caribou.[1] Read More

Nominations sought for 2006 Better Transit Award

The Citizens for Better Transit is now seeking nominations for the annual Gerry Wright Better Transit Award to be presented at the ETS Community Conference on March 11, 2006.

The Award is offered in partnership with the ETS Advisory Board, and is sponsored by Siemens Canada and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569. It recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the improvement of public transit in Edmonton.

Deadline for nominations is February 15th, 2006.

Please visit our Web site at www.bettertransit.ab.ca for further information and for nomination forms. Nominations may be submitted electronically or to CFBT at P.O. Box 47163, 62 Edmonton Centre RPO, Edmonton, AB T5J 4N1. Read More

Preliminary Notice of AEN Negotiation Course

Mark your calendars!

This is a preliminary notice that the Alberta Environmental Network will be offering a course in Interest-Based Negotiation March 31-April 1, 2006, in Edmonton.

The course will be taught by Patrick Field of the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Further details will follow, but at this time we anticipate that registration will be limited to 50 participants and that the fee to AEN members will be $50.

Hold the date in your calendar, and reply to the AEN to reserve a space! Read More

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