Resiliency: Cool Ideas for Locally Elected Leaders is the fifth volume in the Going for Green Leadership Series. Inspired by conversations at our Centre for Civic Governance forums, Resiliency highlights the bold and creative ways in which leaders and communities are responding to the major environmental challenges of our time.
In this book you will find:
For the Love of Nature: Solutions for Biodiversity is Volume 4 in the Centre for Civic Governance's Going for Green series. Authors Briony Penn and Dr. Robin J. Hood share their remarkable collection of stories about leadership in biodiversity.
Read about people behind initiatives like:
Portland's City Repair
Ottawa's Biodiversity Blitz
Vancouver's Stanley Park Ecology Centre
And about key legislative and planning tools such as:
Through the Green Glass: Climate Change Tools for Education Leaders is the third volume in the Columbia Institute's Going for Green series.
This collection of presentations is based on a conference held in January 2008 that brought together over 20 experts to speak on a variety of education-related sustainability issues.
In this book you will find:
A climate change primer - the dominant changes in the climate system, including the atmosphere, ocean, snow and ice
Compelling arguments for action, and
Real models for change
Locally elected leaders – councillors and school board trustees – are forging innovative, homegrown methods of making sustainability their reality. They are tackling social issues such as the pressing need for affordable housing. As part of its mandate to build strong, progressive communities, the Columbia Institute Centre for Civic Governance has gathered the best of its hard-won wisdom in this series to help more communities reach for social, economic, and environmental goals as they go for green.
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A green revolution is underway! Get the goods from those making sustainability happen in British Columbia.
Across BC, municipalities and school boards are going for green, moving toward sustainability by:
