Touch the Earth

A quiz from the Protean Tradition website that helps you to understand your environmental impact, and to answer the question, "Where is here?"

About the Personal Environmental Impact Statement

A tool to help you determine yours, and how to reduce it.

Pembina Institute: One Less Tonne Tool

Take the One-Tonne Challenge!

David Suzuki Foundation: Nature Challenge

"The 10 most effective ways we can help conserve nature and improve our quality of life."

Here are a few resources for those in the Calgary area to help you answer those questions. For those elsewhere, seek out the equivalent websites for your part of the world:

Land and Climate

• Environment Canada: Ecozones
• Bow River Basin Council
• Environment Canada: Canadian Climate Normals 1971-2000
• The Weather Network
• Alberta Community Development - Parks and Protected Areas

Flora and Fauna

• Alberta Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development: Crops Publications
• Environment Canada: Canadian Wildlife Service
• Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
• Alberta Species at Risk Program - Status Ranks
• Alberta Sustainable Resource Development - Game Species
• Weaselhead.org: Birdwatching in the Calgary Area

Urban Living

• Alberta Energy: Electricity
• ATCO Power
• EPCOR Generation Inc.
• TransAlta Utilities
• City of Calgary: Garbage Collection