Rabu, 06 April 2011
Love Nature? Love Beer? Then You Can Help!
If you love nature and you love beer, combining your two passions while making a difference has just gotten easier with the launch of Alexander Keith's Green Initiative!
By entering a PIN from specially-marked 24 IPA packs and 15 -bottle mixer packs of Alexander Keith’s beer on Keith’s Facebook page, you can reveal a donation amount of between $0 and $1,000 which Keith’s will donate on your behalf to four great causes and their national partners across Canada:
Entering your pin also gives you the chance to win a Keith’s Eco-Adventure. You could be on your way to an eight day dog-sledding adventure in the Yukon!
Not a beer drinker, but still want to help nature? Share Keith’s Green Initiative with friends on Facebook and Keith’s will donate $1 to one of the above four charities! Sharing also enters you to win a Keith’s Eco-Prize Pack. Keith's estimates that as much as $75,000 will be donated through this program.
A few words from our executive director, Ian Davison, on the initiative:
“Alexander Keith’s Green Initiative is helping to protect nature in this country, something we know Canadians care deeply about. Wildlife is the clear winner when one of Canada’s most respected conservation organizations teams up with one of the country’s oldest commercial breweries.”
A big thank you goes out to everyone who has shared Keith's Green Initiative on Facebook and to those who have purchased specially marked cases of Keith's beer.
Cheers!
Get to Know Your Wild Neighbors!
The 2011 Robert Bateman Get to Know Contest kicks off this Sunday, April 10.
This year, the contest encourages Canadian youth to enjoy nature by getting outside and creating art, writing, digital photography, and videos.
Submit your art for the chance to win cash prizes, an invitation to the week-long Get to Know Art & Nature Camp in Victoria and much more.
In celebration of the International Year of Forests, the theme of the 2011 Get to Know Contest is "This is My Forest". Whether it's a single tree in a backyard or acres of boreal forest in a national park, the contest offers youth the opportunity to learn about and celebrate their local forest and its inhabitants.
The contest runs from April 10 to May 23, with launches at participating parks, zoos, and museums all across Canada during National Wildlife Week, April 10 – 16. To learn more and find out how to enter, visit www.gettoknow.ca.
This year, the contest encourages Canadian youth to enjoy nature by getting outside and creating art, writing, digital photography, and videos. Submit your art for the chance to win cash prizes, an invitation to the week-long Get to Know Art & Nature Camp in Victoria and much more.
In celebration of the International Year of Forests, the theme of the 2011 Get to Know Contest is "This is My Forest". Whether it's a single tree in a backyard or acres of boreal forest in a national park, the contest offers youth the opportunity to learn about and celebrate their local forest and its inhabitants.
The contest runs from April 10 to May 23, with launches at participating parks, zoos, and museums all across Canada during National Wildlife Week, April 10 – 16. To learn more and find out how to enter, visit www.gettoknow.ca.
Senin, 04 April 2011
The Best of Environmental Film Comes to Ottawa
Every few weeks, my daughter Cassie insists we visit the Canadian Museum of Nature here in Ottawa -- what she calls "the dinosaur museum" -- so that she can visit the triceratops models and feed them her lunch. The museum staff is very accommodating toward these wholly unsanctioned fantasy mealtimes.
This week, I have another good reason to visit the museum, and it has nothing to do with giant lizards. From April 5-8 the Canadian Museum of Nature will present some of the best environmental documentaries from Toronto's Planet in Focus Film Festival.
The Ottawa screenings are part of a national tour with stops at other natural history museums in several Canadian cities, including Whitehorse, Halifax and Victoria. I've looked at the line-up; it's a mix of the fear-inducing and the awe-inspiring. There are award-winning films about the coming crisis in drinking water, the dire effects of a mass bee hive collapse, and the alarming effects of global warming. But there is also an uplifting story about indigenous peoples saving the Yukon River, another about former enemies joining forces to save the hawksbill turtle, and a fascinating underwater journey into Alaska's inside passage.
Nature Canada joined famed author and nature advocate Margaret Atwood on the red carpet at the 2010 Planet in Focus festival for the premiere of the Ron Mann film In the Wake of the Flood, a documentary about Atwood's worldwide Year of the Flood book tour. Since Atwood helped to raise funds and awareness about Nature Canada on the tour, we make a small appearance in the film.
(Ron Mann's film isn't on the docket for this travelling film fest -- but you can still buy the DVD!)
Check out the museum's web site for film schedules and other details, or the Planet in Focus site for more info about screenings in other cities.
This week, I have another good reason to visit the museum, and it has nothing to do with giant lizards. From April 5-8 the Canadian Museum of Nature will present some of the best environmental documentaries from Toronto's Planet in Focus Film Festival.
The Ottawa screenings are part of a national tour with stops at other natural history museums in several Canadian cities, including Whitehorse, Halifax and Victoria. I've looked at the line-up; it's a mix of the fear-inducing and the awe-inspiring. There are award-winning films about the coming crisis in drinking water, the dire effects of a mass bee hive collapse, and the alarming effects of global warming. But there is also an uplifting story about indigenous peoples saving the Yukon River, another about former enemies joining forces to save the hawksbill turtle, and a fascinating underwater journey into Alaska's inside passage.
Nature Canada joined famed author and nature advocate Margaret Atwood on the red carpet at the 2010 Planet in Focus festival for the premiere of the Ron Mann film In the Wake of the Flood, a documentary about Atwood's worldwide Year of the Flood book tour. Since Atwood helped to raise funds and awareness about Nature Canada on the tour, we make a small appearance in the film.
(Ron Mann's film isn't on the docket for this travelling film fest -- but you can still buy the DVD!)
Check out the museum's web site for film schedules and other details, or the Planet in Focus site for more info about screenings in other cities.
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