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AWARE (Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment)
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AWARE (Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment) fonds

  • AWARE
  • Fonds
  • [2000]-2002

This fonds consists of textual material created by AWARE (Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment), including an informational sheet about the 2001 AWARE Wetlands Campaign, Issue #22 of the newsletter The Aware Conserver, January 2002, and a booklet about AWARE's campaign to save the Upper Elaho-Sims Creek wilderness area [c. 2000].

AWARE (Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment)

AWARE Wetlands Campaign 2001

One-page informational sheet about AWARE'S Wetlands Campaign from 2001. It lists the steps that are being taken throughout May, August, and September of that year to educate the public about the White Gold Wetlands and to preserve this ecosystem for the future. Information is also given about the Whistler Wetlands Walking Tours being held every Sunday throughout May 2001.

The AWARE Conserver Newsletter - Issue #22, January 2002

Issue #22 of the newsletter "The AWARE Conserver," dated January 2002.

Contents:

  • "Message from the President - Whistler. It's Our Nature"
  • "SLRD [Squamish-Lillooet Regional District] News"
  • "Doing Well by Doing Good"
  • "First Steps for the Natural Step"
  • "Tina Symko Joins AWARE"
  • "Recent Conferences - Climate Change Research in BC, Smart Growth"
  • "AWARE AGM"

A time to think about giving

A newspaper article from the Pique in December of 2012 entitled "A time to think about giving." The article is about charitable giving in Whistler and a number of the charitable organizations who have received significant donations. Specifically mentioned at the top of the list is the Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation. Found in scrapbook.

Anti-Olympic Movement

Materials gathered by Sara Jennings which oppose the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, including a Whistler Watch pamphlet titled "Whistler Welcomes the World But ... at what cost?", an AWARE pamphlet titled "THESE GAMES ARE NOT GREEN!", and a poster for an "Inside the Olympics Industry" talk given by Dr. Helen Lensky of the University of Toronto. The material is intended to spread awareness of the environmental, financial, and social costs of the Olympic Games, and to encourage changes to be made by the International Olympic Committee.

These Games are Not Green! Booklet

Booklet produced by AWARE entitled "THESE GAMES ARE NOT GREEN!". It contains information about the negative environmental impacts of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, including loss of biodiversity, destruction of natural habitats, energy and water demands, mass transportation, increased greenhouse gas emissions and waste production, and a lack of institutional accountability. It also lists potential solutions to these problems, such as reusing pre-existing Olympic facilities, eliminating or restricting sliding sports, making the Games spectator-free, and holding host countries to high environmental standards.

AWARE (Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment)

Whistler Fisheries Stewardship Group

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-025
  • Series
  • 1998 - 2000
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Series includes minutes from a meeting of the Whistler Fisheries Stewardship Group from March, 2000; correspondence between Randy Symons and Jean Cook regarding the installation of bridges at Whistler Creek and Jordan Creek, with a lock-block diagram.

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