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| UBC engages community partners such as EYA in research project |
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UBC for takes action on research project involving Vancouver schools, food gardens, students and school cafeterias. They are engaging community partners such as the Environmental Youth Alliance to support them in their efforts.
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| Community Nursery End of Season report |
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It was a successful year for the Community Nursery! EYA distributed our goal of 2000 seedlings! We also distributed 200 seed packages and gave 6 capacity building workshops related to urban food growing.
Please see our complete end of season report.
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| Up With Hope! EYA Plastics Recyling Facility is Launched |
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Since 2007, EYA's Up With Hope project has been working to improve the living conditions of residents in informal settlements around Nairobi, Kenya. Through the installment of recycling centres, they are tackling massive issues like unemployment and pollution. Each centre is run by local youth groups who are poised to clean up their community, while making it their livelihood. Special thanks to major corporate sponsors Fluevog Shoes, and for more information
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Many thanks to the Vancouver Foundation who partially funded EYA's Mason Bee Project. Please see their website here: http://www.vancouverfoundation.bc.ca/ or check out the following link to the Vital Signs report featuring EYA's project.
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| EYA Bee Project in the news |
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Backyard beehives: They're booming on Canada's west coast with everyone from high-end hotels to apartment dwellers joining in. Hadani Ditmars reports from Vancouver.
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Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) is a youth driven non-profit organization dedicated to the health of our urban environment, our planet & the wellbeing of its people. By providing young people with meaningful experiences, in projects that benefit our communities, we support our environment socially as well as ecologically.
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In partnership with the Vancouver Park Board and City of Vancouver, EYA has received funding from Vancouver Foundation, Canadian Wildlife Federation, and the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation for the expansion of the mason bee project. With volunteer 'bee stewards', the project's main objective is to establish 50 mason bee 'highrises' and relevant garden plantings in neighbourhood parks and public spaces across the City of Vancouver.
UPDATE: All of our bee condos and highrises have been distributed and are now installed across the city...contact us to see if there is one in your neighbourhood!
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Ever wonder how big an impact EYA has had over the past 15 years? Look no further ...
Youth engaged in EYA projects: 13 000
Youth employed thru training programs: 500
Tonnes of GHG’s saved / year: 331
Trees saved / year*: 180
Litres of effluent prevented/ year: 429,622
# of plants distributed: 5000
# of employees engaged in sustainable practices: 1000
# of countries served: 20
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email: info@eya.ca
phone: 604.689.4446 fax: 604.689.4242
mail: po box 3601 STN terminal, vancouver bc, V6B 3Y6
office: 517 - 119 west pender street, vancouver, bc, V6B 1S5
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