Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner The Youth Project Bronze Winner Autism Nova Scotia Editor’s note: With its 2017 Best Activist Organization win marking at least 10 golds in a row, the EAC joins the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. It’s hard to call the Ecology Action Centre […]
Ecology Action Centre
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Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Solidarity Halifax Bronze Winner South House It’s a busy time over at the Ecology Action Centre. Membership’s at an all-time high, and the gold winner spent the past year engaging on everything from genetically modified salmon to climate change. The EAC is now prepping delegates for the upcoming […]
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Ecology Action Centre is on the road again
[Image-1] Moving always sucks. But the Ecology Action Centre promises it’ll be worth it in the end. The environmental charity is undergoing some exciting renovations to its current Fern Lane headquarters starting in May. In order to make room, the EAC will be squatting roughly two kilometres away at their temporary location at 1888 Brunswick Street. […]
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Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Solidarity Halifax Bronze Winner South House Don’t say the Ecology Action Centre isn’t busy. The winners of this year’s Best Activist Organization have the continued honour of existing in a province with abundant natural resources and a government that keeps messing them up. The EAC had been […]
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Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project Bronze Winner Solidarity Halifax The Ecology Action Centre is 42 years old, but the organization remains in the forefront of important environmental activism, most recently urging the newly elected McNeil government to abandon its short-sighted plan to alter funding for Efficiency Nova Scotia. […]
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Not your Garden variety Party
“It’s our annual coming-of-summer fundraiser,” says the Ecology Action Centre’s Stephanie Hughes of the centre’s 15th annual outdoor brouhaha. “It’s our largest fundraiser so through this event which includes a plant sale—hence garden party—silent auction and live auction, we raise thousands of dollars for EAC projects and core expenses.” Hosted by CBC Radio’s Olga Milosevich, […]
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Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Halifax Refugee Clinic Bronze Winner Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project Seven time gold winner Ecology Action Centre is the little org that could, and can. Founded as a class project for the Living Ecology course at Dalhousie University in 1971, the organization almost immediately found its activist legs […]
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Off The Hook starts up again this week
The summer season of Off The Hook—the Community Supported Fishery organized by the Ecology Action Centre and a small group of Digby fishers—starts after the long weekend. That gives you only a few days to sign up for the eight week-long program. Here’s the price deets: whole (gutted) fish: (2-3 lbs each) One Fish: (weekly […]
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Off The Hook lobsters
Off the Hook CSF fishers will bring a limited amount of fresh, hard-shelled lobsters to Halifax to the Halifax Historic Farmer’s Market (aka the Brewery Market). Check them out on December 18th, December 23, and/or December 30 and go home with a bag full of fresh, local lobster. For more information on lobsters from Off […]
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The EAC continues to be at the vanguard of the environmental movement in Nova Scotia. With its eye on everything from urban gardening to salmon aquaculture, biomass to public transit in rural areas, the organization does its best to save the planet from Nova Scotia. And in September the EAC will participate in the Feed-In […]
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Off The Hook CSF is back on the hook
Starting September 30th, Off the Hook CSF—Atlantic Canada’s first Community Supported Fishery—will deliver a weekly catch of fresh, sustainably caught haddock, hake and pollock to subscribing customers in and around the HRM, following up on last year’s successful inaugural season. The central concept for Off the Hook is subscribers knowing where and how their seafood is caught, to renew the direct connections with local fishing communities and the ocean, as well as giving consumers the chance to get to know the fishers who catch their supper, while the fishers get a fair price for their catch. CSFs are modeled on
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The EAC is a hive of constant activity. Here’s just a sample of what they’ve been up to in the past year, provided by Charlene Boyce Young, in charge of development and outreach: “We are running a second year of the Green Mobility Grants program thanks to Conserve Nova Scotia’s support, helping sustainable transportation projects […]