Alberta Watershed Ed. aims to educate participants on the nature of local river and watershed processes in Southern Alberta using accessible language to communicate the complex scientific concepts so that they may better understand the processes that deliver drinking and irrigation water, sustain ecosystems from the Rockies to Hudson Bay, and shape the landscape.
The Fascinating World of Fungi
This podcast series will take you through time and space to talk about the often forgotten about decomposers that help sustain our cycle of life on Earth.
iNaturalist and the City Nature Challenge 2021 Lethbridge
This spring Lethbridge is participating in the City Nature Challenge for the first time ever. Using the app iNaturalist, this four-day bioblitz encourages people to get outside and get curious about the natural phenomena that surround our city.
Stories of Ecology: An Ecological Guide of Treaty 7
This project will platform stories about connection to place and give information about the unique ecological elements that feature in the stories. This project was started by a collective of people with a desire to deepen relationships amongst people and place and create an accessible educational resource that celebrates the multifaceted voices of Treaty 7 today.
Plant’s Eye View: The Story of Climate Change and Bluets
Engaging the community in hands-on learning and citizen science projects by caring for and creating empathy towards the long-leaved-bluets, a flower vulnerable to climate change. We will follow the journey of the bluets from seeds to their new home.
Magic Seeds YYC
Biophilia is the idea that we as humans are innately connected to our natural world and the other creatures with which we cohabitate. Integral to reestablishing this feeling of connectedness is fostering a sense of stewardship and reciprocity. The planting of proverbial and literal seeds – and magic ones, at that.
Peaks, Pits, and Prairies
A pilot program providing Alpine Club of Canada leaders with the knowledge to raise awareness about the reliance and impact that alpine ecosystems have on Southern Alberta’s threatened spaces.