The world conference of the International Council for Traditional Music and SOUNDshift Festival is being hosted by Memorial University, July 13-19, 2011. We’re looking to make our event as GREEN as possible.
If you’d like to go in on a bulk order of water bottles or USB drives, to eliminate disposal cup, reduce paper, and cut costs, we’d love to talk about partnering with you. Call Kati Szego at 753-9994 or email kszego@mun.ca.
“Send Us Your Dirty Pictures” Contest
YEA! (Youth for Environmental Awareness) is sponsoring a digital photography contest to raise awareness about littering and illegal dumping in our communities. Youth ages 12- 19 are invited to send us your ‘trashiest’ pictures and you could win great prizes!
For all the contest details visit www.enviroyouthNL.com Contest Closes May 31st, 2011.
Contest:
Tom Howard, Chair, YEA!
youthforearth@gmail.com
YEA! Youth for Environmental Awareness
Visit Us on the Web www.enviroyouthnl.com
Clean Up Corner Brook
The City of Corner Brook are encouraging individuals and groups to donate at least 30 minutes of their time on May 6th & May 7th to pick up litter on their respective properties and parking lots, neighbourhood streets, or to adopt a public green space.
Clean Up Corner Brook hopes to mobilize residents, community groups, businesses, institutions and schools on the theory that many hands make short work. It not only improves the appearance of the city, it also highlights the sense of community spirit that exits in Corner Brook, and demonstrates the responsibility we feel towards the protection of the environment. Everyone is encouraged to select a particular part of town to clean up the litter. It may be a residential road, perhaps a neighbourhood park or public green space.
Participants are asked to register with the City so that we can acknowledge the efforts and measure success. To register call 637-1630 or email cleanup@cornerbrook.com. FREE garbage bags and cotton gloves will be available to community groups and individuals and can be picked up at City Hall.
For more information on how to participate in Clean Up Corner Brook visit www.cornerbrook.com.
MUNSU will be hosting a Sustain Fair. We are looking for groups that would be interested in promoting what they do and engaging students on how to be more sustainable. It will be taking place on March 8th 11-2pm, MUN Campus, St. John’s. Set up will take place at 10:30 am and parking will be made available on a first come first serve bases. If you are interested in taking part in this exciting opportunity, have questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at meaghan.barnhill@gmail.com. We are asking that you respond by March 1st at noon as space is limited and we will be trying to fit everyone in. I can also email you more details as they come.
For futher information:
Meaghan Barnhill
meaghan.barnhill@gmail.com
(709) 746 4485
The Western Environment Centre has some exciting news! We have established a Communications & Outreach working group and a quarterly newsletter is in the works. The newsletter will be published online through a link on our website, www.wecnl.ca, in March, June, September and December. In saying that, I am reaching out to all of you and your organizations in order to build a cataloge of content. WEC would also like to assist in advertising any up coming events or updates about the important work that you do. Please let us know the dates and a bit about of all of your March, April & May events for our March newsletter. When we publish in June, an inventory of all of your June, July & August events, and so on. Articles of up to 500 words will be published and, or any interesting facts or stories you would like to submit.
At the Western Environment Centre, our mandate is to educate the public on sustainable living and matters of environmental concern, in a balanced and objective manner. Please help us to achieve our goals and making a difference in the world that we live in!
For further information:
Carolyn Wheeler, Project Coordinator
Western Environment Centre
86 West Street, suite # 5, Corner Brook, Nl, A2H 2Z3
(709) 634-9470
info@wecnl.ca
The Suncor Energy Fluvarium is hosting our Earth Day Fair on April 21, 2011.
This event will be open to the general public and we are looking for you to help us celebrate.
Does your organization promote green living, recycling, conservation and other Earth friendly ideas?
The theme of the fair is: “Challenge Yourself”
If you are interested in having a booth and offering ideas for how people can get involved in protecting our Earth come on board and be a part of our Earth Day Fair 2011!
For more information and to get involved please contact the event coordinator:
Denise Hennebury: 709-754-3474 or dhennebury@fluvarium.ca
Note: For those who were not able to attend the Forum it will be broadcast in its entirety by Rogers TV Cable 9 at the following times:
Fri, Feb 11th – 10pm and 11pm
Sun, Feb 13th – 2:30pm, 3:30pm and 4:30pm
Mon, Feb 14th – in the evening, immediately following broadcast of City Council meeting
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ACAP Humber Arm is pleased to announce we will be hosting a Candidates Forum on Environmental Issues, and we invited your involvement.
There are three ways you can support this Forum:
SUGGEST A QUESTION
Is there an environmentally related question you would like to see the candidates answer? To ensure questions are non-partisan and the selection of questions asked cover the widest possible range of environmental issues there will be no questions from the floor. All questions must be submitted to ACAP Humber Arm at speddle@acaphumberarm.com on or before Tuesday, Feb 8th. A selection of questions received will be posed to the candidates, by a moderator, during the Forum. Questions will not be shared with the candidates prior.
BE IN THE AUDIENCE DURING THE FORUM
The Forum will take place 12:30 – 1:30pm, Thursday, Feb 10th in room 301, Library Building, Grenfell Campus. Members of the public are invited to be part of the audience, though space is limited so we advise you arrive early. Signs, posters, placards, etc. will not be permitted at the Forum. Tea and coffee will be provided for all our guests.
SPREAD THE WORD
Please share this email with your friends and colleagues.
Two of the three candidates in the Humber West by-election have confirmed their participation.
Be an informed voter. Learn where our candidates stand on the important environmental issues that concern us all.
NORTH AMERICA’S MOST COMPREHENSIVE SALARY AND BENEFITS SURVEY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Key Decisions During Turbulent Times Require Great Information
Dear Environmental Nonprofit Colleague:
Now is your time to help yourself and other environmental nonprofits in North America by completing your organization’s survey. The more environmental nonprofits that participate, the more helpful the data will be for all of us!
The Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC) survey for North American environmental nonprofit organizations is the only survey that will provide you with the comprehensive information needed to make employment and people decisions during these difficult economic times. Plus, you’ll have access to information that can be used to make better, more informed decisions on your salary and benefits costs.
[CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE NOW] Participation is open to all sizes and types of environmental nonprofits—from a one-person staff to national organizations. You must have at least one employee who works 30 hours or more to participate.
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER—organizations that complete both the salary and the benefits section of the survey will receive your country’s full salary and benefits survey and executive summary survey free, a $268 value.
WHAT CAN THE SURVEY HELP ME DO?
You may be asking yourself two questions at the moment:
1. Why all the fuss about a compensation and benefits survey?
2. Is it worth my time and resources to spend the approximately 30 – 60 minutes to complete the survey?
Although total compensation is one of the lower ranked factors of employee engagement, it quickly rises to the top of employee dis-engagement if it is off-base, significantly non-competitive, or administered inequitably within the organization. Compensation can be a highly emotionally charged issue if it is not handled correctly. One of the reasons total compensation is relatively low as an engagement factor is it is expected by employees to be fair and competitive. Fair and competitive compensation is considered by many employees to be a condition of employment.
Participation in the survey helps you to know…
· Is my total compensation package (salary and benefits) competitive?
· Am I managing my internal compensation in a balanced process between what the organization can afford to pay and the “value” of various roles or positions within the organization?
· As a leader, do I know if the offer I am making to a key candidate is good enough to seal the deal?
· For USA organizations, are we in compliance with new IRS 990 compensation guidelines?
No one can know the answers to these vitally important questions without valid, timely data and the know-how to use them.
The TREC 2011 Salary and Benefits Survey results also provide you with valuable cost and turnover data within the non-profit environmental sector for the first time. New data items in the TREC 2011 salary and benefits survey provides compensation cost per employee, benefits cost per employee, compensation as a percentage of operating budget, benefits as a percentage of operating budget, and a breakdown of the costs of major individual benefits being offered such as healthcare.
We encourage you to take the time to complete the survey, as soon as possible, as it will greatly benefit your organization and all environmental organizations in North America. If you have any questions or challenges during the completion of this survey, please to call or email the Bluewater Non-profit Solutions–TREC help desk. The survey closes February 25th.
We wish to thank our collaborative partners–Institute for Conservation Leadership, Sustainability Network, and New England Grassroots Environmental Fund–for their generous assistance in the outreach effort for this project. We also wish to thank the Canadian HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector, for their generous support of modifications to the survey to accommodate Canadian benefits.
Thank you for helping us to create this valuable resource for the North American environmental nonprofit community.
All the best,
Dyan Oldenburg and Donna Neusch Ph.D.
Executive Director Director of Evaluation/HR Sr. Associate
Please sign our petition and forward to your membership lists and friends!
LESS THAN THREE WEEKS LEFT TO
Are you thinking of submitting a proposal to the Ecocity World Summit 2011? There’s no time to waste! The Call for Proposals deadline is January 31st.
The procedure is simple. Just go to the CALL FOR PROPOSALS section of the Summit web site, read the instructions, and click on SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL. The entirely-online submission process allows you to start your work, take a break, and come back to it later. We urge you to get your proposal in as soon as possible.
If you like, you may download the PDF version of the Call for Proposals. The document is easy to use and contains all the information you need!
Don’t hesitate to contact the Secretariat with any questions.
REMINDER: IMPORTANT DATES
January 31, 2011
Deadline for Submission of Presentation Proposals
February 28, 2011
Opening of Online Registration for the Summit
April 30, 2011
Notification of Proposal Acceptance
May 13, 2011
Deadline for Early-Bird Registration Rate
August 22-26, 2011
Ecocity World Summit in Montréal
Newfoundland & Labrador Environment Network 