About Our Programs

FROM LIFE ON THE LAND TO GLOBAL ACTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Global Foundation was created in 2003 by a group of Canadian environmentalist and trade unionists, some of whom were involved at the United Nations for the adoption and follow up of sustainable development principles, expressed in the UN’s Agenda 21, and today integrated within the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and similar goals of other institutions.

The basis of their work at the United Nations, prior to establishing Global Foundation, was to add voice to the call for better integration of economic policy with environmental practice and social development:

Global Foundation has been involved in a broad range of practical issues to better integrate sustainable development: See Here and including:

  • Climate action and life on the land (MDG goal #13 and #15)
  • Wetland and watershed protections
  • Climate Change, Species Diversity & Tree Planting
  • Corporate and government accountability

Our programs

From life on the land to global action on environmental changes.

Practical Learning at Home (180,000 Acre Neighbourhood)Learning on the land and at the Global Foundation Activity Centre, in the Beaver Hills Biosphere.Miquelon Watershed Stewardship DomainLand holders, counties and partners caring for the Miquelon watershed.BiodiversitySign our petition asking Alberta to set biodiversity targets.Seed Distribution ProgramFree native plant seeds from Global Foundation and Sierra Club Canada.Tree PlantingVolunteer at a planting, pledge a tree, register a tree or commemorate one.Informing Levels of GovernmentWorking with partners to inform decisions at every level of government.Incorporating Social FactorsArts and community, well-being, worker rights and Indigenous rights.

About Global Foundation

Global Foundation was created in 2003 by a group of Canadian environmentalist and trade unionists, some of whom were involved at the United Nations for the adoption and follow up of sustainable development principles, expressed in the UN’s Agenda 21, and today integrated within the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and similar goals of other institutions.

The basis of their work at the United Nations, prior to establishing Global Foundation, was to add voice to the call for better integration of economic policy with environmental practice and social development.

What we work on

Global Foundation has been involved in a broad range of practical issues to better integrate sustainable development, including:

Climate action and life on the land

MDG goal #13 and #15.

Wetland and watershed protections

See the Miquelon Watershed Stewardship Domain.

Climate Change, Species Diversity & Tree Planting

See Biodiversity and Tree Planting.

Corporate and government accountability

See Informing Levels of Government.