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Partners for Prosperity Projects
Economic Development : Business
| Cowichan Green Community (Canada) |
Mission: To promote energy efficiency, healthy housing and environmental sustainability in the Cowichan Valley.
Goals:
Establish partnerships within the community and beyond which result in the development of holistic, environmental-based projects that address social/economic development issues, as well as make the link between health and environment. ?Where environment and community meet?.
Accomplishments:
- Presently working to establish an urban training centre for backyard food production (organic) targeting low-income households
- Developed a Green Home Visit Program, ?Sustainable Living? workshop series ? organic gardening, Native Plant Gardening, Healthy Housing, others, and a Climate Change Kiosk - surveyed over 1000 local residents to raise awareness of Climate Change as it relates to typical North American rural communities.
- Spawned the Cowichan Valley Cycling Coalition to help promote cycling as a legitimate, sustainable form of transportation
- Organized an ?EcoFair? highlighting local environmental organizations and their activities
- Presented to schools
- Community networking
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| Foundation for World Peace (United States) |
The Foundation for World Peace, whose goal it is "to assist and encourage the germination of the seed of peace that is inherent in every human heart and mind." Located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, but with a national as well as local outlook.
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