Greening British Columbia
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- Category: Environmental Change
- Published on 08 July 2011
ACORN Canada’s Green Connections program held a brainstorming session at the Guildford Recreation Centre in mid-June. Members from ACORN Canada and volunteers with the Green Connection Program had a debrief session on how well the engagement on BC Hydro's Energy Savings Kits (ESK) went. The consensus among the group was that their neighbours that they talked to wanted the free Energy Savings Kits, and wanted to do something to protect the environment.
The conversation then moved into a fascinating discussion on how tenants in North Surrey can become environmentally engaged in their communities. Great ideas came about in the discussion. Ideas ranging from composting and community gardening to recycling organic matter into electricity where discussed; and now comes the challenge of turning ideas into action!
Environmental Change Program
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- Category: Environmental Change
- Published on 01 February 2010
ACORN Canada’s Environmental Change programs aim to increase the ability of community and neighbourhood groups to identify and undertake actions in their community, which will result in a reduction in greenhouse gas and smog causing emissions.
Community organizers engage these groups and helping them undertake range of actions to meet project objectives
The program works by engaging residents through door-to-door outreach; get commitments for participation; distribute information about the project; ivsit community organizations who expressed interest; hold planning meetings; leadership development to find new projects leads. Get draft agenda together with project leads and assign new leaders to run meeting; announce decided initiative and go over what is needed to implement project; Get feed back; Develop implementation plan for project.
