What Can You Do?

We all have a role to play in keeping the Great Lakes great. Here are some ways that you can get engaged in environmental activities.

At Home and in Your Community

At Work

Volunteer

  • Volunteer Activities at EC - EC's Volunteers Web site contains exciting volunteer opportunities for people from every walk of life. The programs reflect the diversity of Canadian environmental concerns and include water, wildlife, weather, and environmental action.
  • Community Animation Program - Aims to build community capacity to act on issues which show links between human health and the natural environment.
  • Volunteer Wildlife Monitoring: Choosing the Project That's Right For You - It is not always easy to know which volunteer wildlife monitoring project best matches your own interests and experience. This site can help you to decide, through a chart of programs and descriptions of the time commitment and skill level each requires.
  • Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network - The Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network is a national network of monitoring and research sites characterized by long term, multi-disciplinary studies.

Related Links

  • Obviously.ca - A website created by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to explain the challenges facing our planet and inspire people to take actions that protect the environment - all within an interactive media experience that includes music clips and videos.
  • Volunteer for Nature - Join a small group of volunteers on 3 to 16-day expeditions to build trails, monitor wildlife, or restore habitat in outstanding natural areas
  • Bring Back the Don - Bring Back the Don is a citizens' group sponsored by the City of Toronto, that works to "bring back" a clean, green and accessible Don River watershed.
  • Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup - Join one of Canada's largest annual direct action environmental events, and help remove litter from a shoreline in your community.