Spring 2018

Newsletter Archive

Community Conserve Products Roll Out

The Community Conserve team has been busy! Several products created under Community Conserve have been released over the last two months, with a few more to come this spring.

(Community Conserve is a partnership of the Miistakis Institute and the Environmental Law Centre, with the support of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association and the Rural Municipalities of Alberta)

Completed projects to date:

• Municipalities and Environmental Assessment: Primer and Model Bylaw Completed January 2018
• The Scope of Municipal Powers and the Environment Completed November 2017
• How Municipalities Apply Environmental Reserve in Alberta Completed October 2017
• A Conservation Easement Guide for Municipalities Completed October 2017
• ALSA Conservation Tools for Municipalities Webinars Completed February 2017

We've also created some helpful (and quick) 'How-to' videos to assist with streamlining the Community Conserve process. Look for these icons on the Home Page.

Taking a step back, if you are new to Community Conserve, it's essentially crowd-sourcing for conservation at the municipal scale. Community Conserve helps municipalities pool their resources to address conservation and environmental issues of common concern. The steps in the process - Posting an Idea, Voting, Funding, Seeing the Results - all happen through the Community Conserve web site.

Community Conserve only works if municipal personnel participate. Post ideas, and vote on the ideas already there - no registration required!

The Community Conserve team converts the ideas with the most votes into Project Plans, and posts them back on the site.

If a Project Plan looks like it will help your municipality, and you think you can help fund it, go to Fund a Project and let Community Conserve know you are thinking about it.

Go to www.communityconserve.ca