This year the Global Stewardship Program is partnering with Latitude Global Volunteering.
"It has been said that water is the new oil, and future wars will be fought over access to water, as we have fought wars for oil in the past. Explain why this is so, and how we might avoid wars over water in the future."
Enter to win a $500 prize for the best essay, powerpoint, podcast or video on the topic of water. For more details, check out www.capilanou.ca/globalstewardship <http://www.capilanou.ca/globalstewardship> or www.lattitudecanada.org <http://www.lattitudecanada.org/
digital storytelling workshop:
Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), in collaboration with Metro Vancouver, the Stewardship Centre of BC, BC Hydro and Green Streets (a national educational program funded by the McConnell Foundation) are sponsoring a digital storytelling production workshop in advance of the 2010 Canadian Environmental Education and Communication conference at Simon Fraser University May 20-22, 2010.
DFO is sponsoring (travel expenses) one team led by Bren McKenzie a youth who participated in SEP’s Community Involvement Program at the Kingfisher Interpretive Centre as a child and went on to become a professional river guide. His brothers, equally affected by SEP-Community Involvement Program, are working in the sports fishing industry on the coast and endeavour to incorporate catch and release as well as other conservation methods in their daily work practices.
The film produced by Pacific Cinematheque is meant to encourage youth (ages 15-29 approximately) to participate in salmon conservation. This age group is identified as a "gap" in the DFO Stream to Sea program. The five other participating teams from the other partners all have a stewardship ethic as their theme and will support each other through this intense volunteer commitment. The service provider, Pacific Cinematheque, is a national organization that has decades of experience in working with grassroots film production. The finished products could be linked to a Facebook page or put on YouTube to share. http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/
This exercise will also serve as an innovative means of capturing a case study, complementing the other survey work being done to support the SEP Performance Measurement Framework.
