Annual Report 2004 State of the Alliance The Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital is the leading advocate of greenspace preservation and expansion in the National Capital region. It is now incorporated under the federal corporations act. Our advocacy has ensured that natural spaces are no longer a neglected part of planning. But we still need…
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Friends of the Greenspace Alliance Minutes of Meeting of April 12, 2011 (by e-mail) Participating Members: Amy Kempster (chair), Cheryl Doran, Janice Seline, Sol Shuster, Alicia Reckzin, Erwin Dreessen (note taker) The following motions were decided on: 1. Alicia moved and Janice seconded to agree to the request of the applicants for incorporation of “Greenspace…
Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital Minutes of Meeting of March 29, 2011 (by email) Participating Members: Cheryl Doran (chair), Sol Shuster, Janice Seline, Amy Kempster, Barry George, Erwin Dreessen (notetaker) The following motion was decided on: Janice moved, seconded by Barry, to agree to the request of the applicants for incorporation of “Greenspace Watch,” once…
Friends of the Greenspace Alliance Minutes of Meeting of September 17, 2009 RA Centre Present: Cheryl Doran (chair), Amy Kemspter, Janice Seline, Mik Svilans and Chris Woodward (notetaker) Regrets: Sol Shuster, Eric Cousineau, Barry George, Joseph Potvin. Approval of Minutes: Most people present were unable to read the minutes of the last meeting that were…
August 10, 2017 The Greenspace Alliance today sent in its comments on the planning aspects of Bill 139. The letter is here. Some highlights: We strongly support much of this Bill, in particular the end of de novo hearings and the move to a court-of-appeal type regime, the creation of a Support Centre for citizen-appellants…
October 16, 2007 In August 2007, the Pembina Institute published Ontario Community Sustainability Report – 2007: Primary Authors: Ray Tomalty, Mark Anielski and Don Alexander Secondary Authors: Jeffrey Wilson, Alexandra Jozsa, Murtaza Haider, Daniel Casey and Federico Cartin-Artega Project Director: Mark Winfield “This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected communities across Ontario…
March 2, 2012 Last Fall, TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity) issued a “TEEB Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban Management.” It is a 41-page report geared to “practitioners and policymakers at the local level – including those directly responsible for biodiversity management and those whose work is indirectly related to biodiversity management…
June 15, 2014 Once more for good measure: Exposure to nature is good for you. This latest study finds that being exposed to a natural environment makes you behave less impulsively — test subjects were more prepared to delay a hypothetical monetary outcome rather than benefit immediately. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097915 Abstract The benefits of visual exposure to…
GREENSPACE ALLIANCE OF CANADA’S CAPITAL Greenspace Watch General Meeting February 23, 2015 Hintonburg Community Centre 1064 Wellington Street West K1Y 2Y3 Members present: Erwin Dreessen (chair and notetaker), Amy Steele, Iola Price, and Donna DuBreuil Regrets: Sol Shuster, Bruce Lindsay, Judy Makin, Nicole DesRoches, David McNicoll, Juan Pedro Unger, and Jason Kania The meeting commenced…
Alliance pour les espaces verts de la capitale du Canada Sentinelle des espaces verts Rapport annuel 2015 Mai 2014 à avril 2015 version PDF English version L’Alliance pour les espaces verts de la capitale du Canada demeure un…