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These organizations are all supported by Green Street, and with this support they can deliver environmental education programs from coast to coast. Click on each of the groups to see what their campaigns and programs are, and if you're interested in bringing one of these groups to your school, go to the main Green Street website to register a spot for your class.

Better Environmentally Sound Transportation
Offers the Changing Gears program where you'll learn about the connection between personal transportation behaviour and climate change, sustainable consumption and active citizenship.

Citizen’s Environment Watch and their Adopt-a-site program. They encourage students and teachers to become ‘citizen scientists’ and take an active role in understanding and protecting your local environment. You can work with staff and volunteers to keep an eye on air or surface water quality in your community, and learn to take action!

Clean Nova Scotia
Through CNS, you can access a cool role-play debate activity for a class/group that simulates a real-life situation; scan some of their solid waste, soil, water and climate change initiatives.

Club 2/3
Club 2/3 have various initiatives in Quebec with a focus on developing a more harmonious, fair and ecologically sound world. It was founded by students in 1970 who were concerned about poverty and injustice that afflict 2/3 of the people on the earth.

CPAWS Calgary-Banff Chapter
CPAWS has chapter organizations across Canada. They are dedicated to protecting wild habitat areas/parks and endangered species. Volunteers help them with campaigns to protect particular pieces of land and policy issues.

Conservation Corps
A non-profit group in Newfoundland and Labrador who provide youth with training and employment in environmental and cultural heritage conservation.

Ducks Unlimited
D.U. is involved in conserving wetland areas. They restore wetland habitats, lead environmental research projects and teach Canadians about why it's important to conserve our remaining wetlands.

Earth Day Canada
EDC help people all over the country to take on activities, events and projects for Earth Day, Earth Week and Earth Month. They have resources and programmes that provide opportunities for positive actions and results.

Click for a direct link to eco-Mentors.

Environnement Jeunesse
Enjeu provide workshops to schools about the impacts, both near and far away, of our daily activities. The activities touch on subjects such as food, water, agriculture, transportation and climate change.

Établissements verts Brundtland
This organisation in Quebec helps schools in Quebec to take on action projects with students and teachers. The 4 aims are to promote; solidarity, pacifism, ecological integrity and democracy. The workshops include activities such as World on a Plate, Fair Trade and racism education.

Evergreen Foundation
Evergreen tries to get everyone in a school involved in school ground naturalisation projects. This means includes not only students, but also teachers, administration, the custodians and sometimes even the wider community. With everyone onboard, they help native species selection, site planning, and advice to make school greener.

Green Kids
Check out their annual tour with live theatre performances on climate change, global warming and sustainable development. The performances are followed by classroom-based workshops around sustainability issues and individual responsibility.

Muséobus
This organisation provides a workshop to teach students about the history of water usage in river basins, current water issues and about concrete actions that can be taken.

Pembina Institute
This group does lots of work around energy issues. They conduct research to suggest advice about sustainability solutions about energy, to corporations, governments, organizations and students. They have cool guides about how to build your own solar baking oven, wind mill and solar power.

Safe Drinking Water Foundation
SDWF have a program to help students assess the quality and treatment of the municipal water supply. They are also into exploring native perspectives of environmental stewardship around water.

Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter and Sierra Club of Canada, Atlantic Chapter
The Sierra Club of Canada is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to protect the wild places of the earth,to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems,and to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality ofthe natural and human environment. Current campaigns include our Education Program, our International Gaia Project, Wildlands and Forest Stewardship and Nature Outings.

Sierra Youth Coalition Community Outreach Project
The Sierra Youth Coalition’s Community Youth Action Project (CYAP) aims to inform, activate and empower Canadian youth (ages 14-19) to undertake projects leading to ecological and social well being in their own communities.

The Otesha Project
Otesha means "reason to dream" in Swahili, and these human rights activists bring bicycles, theatre and good people to spread awareness and empowerment to a place near you!

Trout Unlimited
Trouts has a youth program to teach about storm water systems and the effects of untreated water on fish and waterways. They hold a student-lead campaign where kids can take to the street with public education campaigns, with activities such as painting yellow fish next to the drains as reminders to neighbours to be aware of impacts on fish.

WildED!
Bring nature into your classroom with WildED! WildED is a curriculum-linked, experiential, nature education program that engages students and invokes critical thought. Our in-school programs and interpretive nature hikes are designed for grades 4 through 12 and are widely applicable to a range of academic subjects including science, social studies, geography, and physical education. WildED is a program of BC Spaces for Nature (BCSN). BC Spaces for Nature is a wilderness conservation organization that works to protect ecologically significant wilderness, wildlife, and biodiversity in British Columbia for today’s as well as future generations.