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Previous Conservation Summits |
November 25, 2004
(website)
The
first Conservation Summit was co-hosted by the
Conservation Council of Ontario, the Province of
Ontario, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
200 people came together at the Liberty Grand at
Exhibition Place to tackle how Ontario could
best create a culture of conservation.
2004 Summit Challenge Paper
Summit participants encouraged the Conservation
Council to develop a common and united
initiative to promote conservation -- the
genesis of We Conserve. "We Conserve" was
launched on July 5, 2005 with a
consultation paper
and the
www.weconserve.ca website.
May 30, 2006
A year
and a half later, we were back again, with 130
conservation leaders gathering at the Royal York
hotel in Toronto. With "We Conserve", we now
had a model for organizing a conservation
movement, we'd run our first campaign (Doors
Closed) and were set to launch a second
campaign (Lighten
Up). We were already demonstrating the
potential of partnerships, co-marketing,
networking and other innovative ways to promote
conservation. Our main focus was on electricity
conservation, following on the August 2003
blackout, but we could also see the potential
for We Conserve to be a catalyst for change on a
wide range of issues.
2006 Workbook
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credit: Ben Marans
Dr David Suzuki, addressing a media
conference at the start of the Third
Conservation Summit. |
April 27, 2007
(website)
The third
Conservation Summit was held in conjunction with
the Green Living Show at the Ex -- a great
partnership of policy and practice.
The
Summit opened with a press conference tackling
the federal government's response to the Kyoto
Protocol. It then moved into a series of
workshops to tackle the tools of
movement-building.
The
luncheon speaker was the
Danish
Minister for Energy,
Flemming Hansen,
who demonstrated
just what is possible when a government
puts its full resources behind conservation and
renewable power.
After lunch, one of the workshops focused on the
development of a universal green label for We
Conserve, featuring Scott McDougall of Terra
Choice. The discussion in this workshop
helped to frame the development of our universal
Green Star rating system.
It's
amazing what good minds can come up with!
December 4, 2008
(website)
Ontario's
Fourth Conservation Summit
Strategies for a Resilient and Healthy
Future
December 4, 2008
The Royal York Hotel
2002: the dress rehearsal
Back in
2002, the Conservation Council hosted an Eco
Summit as a gathering of conservation and
environmental organizations to discuss ways we
could work together on common goals and increase
funding for environmental groups and programs.
Most of the participants at that summit were
from groups that had faced a decade of declining
funding for environmental projects. They saw
the need for a new approach and urged the
Conservation Council to take the lead in
developing a model for cooperation.
Following from the Eco Summit, the Council
produced a
strategy paper
that first outlined how a cooperative
conservation movement could be developed in
Ontario. |
