Useful Links - comments and suggestions
Thu, 2006-12-07 17:53 — ED
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Updated Totals (to 16 December 2011)
138 Grand Total
69 Autonomous Voluntary Organizations
42 Local
13 Provincial
14 National/International
12 Government-supported Vol. Org.
7 Local
1 Provincial
4 National/International
45 Governments
27 Local
11 Provincial
7 National/International
12 Other
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Links maintenance
Four years after this effort began, I finally made a systematic (manual) check of these links. Most links for the Autonomous Voluntary organizations were still fine, a few needed updating, one had to be deleted -- the "Save Ontario's Species" page on the Environmental Defence web site appears to no longer exist.
Most links in the other categories remained operative as well. Some were updated. The links to the various parts of the Ottawa Official Plan have been reworded. MNR's Ottawa Community Stewardship Centre seems to be no more.
Overall totals in the overview posting have been adjusted. Completing this check was far less work than anticipated!
I hope these links will continue to serve as a resource for all.
Erwin Dreessen
1 December 2010
Wow
Nice work Erwin!!
-Ron
Additions...
Dec. 8: Two more links added: City Repair Ottawa (=Imagine Ottawa) and Eastern Ontario Model Forest.
Dec. 19: Kanata Environmental Network added.
One more, Jan 2, 2007: Trees Canada Foundation.
One more, Jan 10: The Citizen Submissions page of NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
Jan. 16: The link to the consolidated version of the Ottawa Official Plan, Volume 1 has been added; the previous link now points to Volume 2.
Jan. 23: Two more local groups: Friends of the Jock and the Botanical Garden Society.
Feb 14: Today added the wildly successful non-profit organization, Project for Public Spaces (New York, US). It's a bit of a stretch to call this a "voluntary" organization but it seemed other categories are worse.
March 5: Three Québec organizations added: Aux Arbres Citoyens!, SNAP (Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada - section Québec) and Réseau Québecois des Groupes Ecologistes (RQGE)
March 30: a direct link to SARA's Public Registry has been added.
April 20: "Green Ottawa" added -- thanks, Ron!
December 19: "Development Application Review Process" for Ottawa added -- thanks, Al, for bringing this to my attention. Also added the Friends of the Tay Watershed Association.
Januart 18, 2008: updated the link to Ontario's e-laws and added F.U.N. (Federation of Urban Neighbourhoods of Ontario) to the list. The Alliance is a member of the FCA; FCA is a member of F.U.N.
January 20: added know-uranium, a web site serving three local groups, Ottawa Coalition Against Mining Uranium (OCAMU), the Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium (CCAMU) and the West Quebec Coalition Against Mining Uranium (WQ-CAMU). Update, 30 Nov 2010: Only two of these orgs appear to have survived. The links list has been updated.
January 25: added the Petitions process in the Office of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (Auditor General of Canada).
January 28: added Pesticide Free Ontario.
February 5: added Ottawa Community Garden Network.
March 4: added Wildlands League (a CPAWS chapter, hq'd in Toronto)
May 20: added the NCC's page on the Urban Lands Master Plan -- the 100th link!
June 9: recently discovered that Council meetings, going back to December 2003, can now be viewed on the City's web site! Rogers' hold on these tapes has been broken. A step forward in transparent government.
July 6: how could I have overlooked until now The Bishops Mills Natural History Centre, maintained by Frederick Schueler and Aleta Karstad!
September 21: Jane's Walk added -- for the first time, walks in Ottawa are organized in 2008.
October 10: The NCC's page on the Greenbelt added -- thanks, Sol!
November 1: The Ontario government issued revised Statements of Environmental Values for many of its Ministries. A link to it has been added. Thanks, Ken!
January 16, 2009: Added Prof. David Gordon's web site on Planning the Capital (Queen's University; includes access to documents). Thanks, Sol!
February 28: Added the Greenbelt Coalition of Canada's Capital Region.
March 28: Met Howard Clifford at the Wildlife Festival today. Lanark is a bit out of our area but, hey, if the Alba Wilderness School bothered to come to Billings Bridge, we may as well reciprocate and welcome it to the family of Links here! Their web site is delightful and the School surely meets the criterion of "helpful in the preservation of greenspace."
May 9: Added "Choosing Our Future" -- a joint project of the NCC and the Cities of Ottawa and Gatineau.
May 21: Added "Save Our Boreal Birds", locally sponsored by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. (Listed under National voluntary organizations.)
August 25: Added a link to the City of Ottawa's "OPA#76" - from there you can access the OPA itself as well as an annotated Official Plan text. This is "OP 2009" as passed by City Council on June 24, 2009.
August 29: Added the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.
November 22: Added Gravel Watch Ontario.
December 11: Added the new City of Ottawa web site with a long reference list for studies and plans to support development applications.
January 16, 2010: Added the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre and the Ontario chapter of the Sierra Club.
April 21: Added the Ottawa Pilot project for a Biosphere Eco-City (part of UNESCO's MAB program).
October 5: Added the NCC's page to access the archive of the public meetings of its Board of Directors.
November 11: Added "Ottawa's Great Forest," the web site created to promote the Stewardship Plan for the Beaver Pond Forest in Kanata.
March 5, 2011: Added GuideGatineau, a volunteer group enthused about Gatineau Park, including its history.
March 13: Added PERC - how could I have forgotten it for so long! PERC recently spiffed up its web site.
March 25: Added Champlain Oaks, the web site of the Champlain Park community celebrating its ancient burr oaks.
March 27: The Wildlife Festival is always such a good place to meet or get re-acquainted with other activists! As a result of this year's Festival at Billings Bridge, I've added Friends of Gatineau Park / Les Amis du parc de la Gatineau, the Rideau Trail Association, and the Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, even though the first two are more recreation-oriented and so perhaps somewhat at the margin of the mandate of this list (and the Greenspace Alliance), being a list that aims to assist in the preservation of greenspace. We have so much in common!
March 27: Also added today, TEEB4me's effort to convey its message about valuing nature to citizens. TEEB stands for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
September 10: Added the NCC's "Horizon 2067" page.
October 20: Added the City of Ottawa's Trees in Trust program -- free to homeowners!
December 16: Added the Can/US (Washington State/B.C.) ForestEthics organization.
Erwin