Creator: The Green Party of Ontario Purpose: Five general areas to create a financially, socially and environmentally sustainable province. The Five-Point Manifesto 1. Job creation for a modern economy. 2. Safe, affordable energy. 3. Access to health care close to home. 4. Championing local farms 5. Delivering government that works. Source Article on OttawaCitizen.com…
Category Archives: Environment
The Stranger: Increased Bike and Pedestrian Safety
Creator: The Stranger is a Seattle Washington based magazine. Purpose: “Cyclists are dying, collisions are rising, and people who claim that there is a “War on Cars” are out of control—it’s time for a reality check and an action plan.” Manifesto (edited) I. The car-driving class must pay its own way! For cars we have…
Asia Pulp and Paper Group: Paper Contract With China
Creator: Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), one of the world’s largest pulp and paper producers. Purpose: Building upon the first Paper Contract in 2008, this upgraded version provides further details on APP-China’s commitment to sustainable practices and future objectives, and calls on all industry players to collaborate to pursue growth in a more sustainable…
Trevor Boddy: HybridCity
Creator: Trevor Boddy, a former architecture critic for the Vancouver Sun. Purpose: To kick off the Design Thinking Unconference in Vancouver and to stimulate a health debate around the design of the city of Vancouver. HybridCity Manifesto (edited) Vancouver thrives when it embraces its many origins, peoples, ideas and forms. Vancouver falters when it strives…
Gary Nabhan: A Terroir-ist’s Manifesto for Eating in Place
Creator: Gary Paul Nabhan, Distinguished Professor, Southwest Center and Department of Geography, University of Arizona Purpose: “A Terroir comes from the word terre “land”. It was originally a French term in wine, coffee and tea used to denote the special characteristics that the geography, geology and climate of a certain place bestowed upon particular varieties.”…
Blue Gym Manifesto
Creator: Nick Southall is the creator of the Blue Gym website. Purpose: To celebrate the natural environment as a means to improving health and wellbeing. Blue Gym Manifesto Growing medical evidence shows that access to the natural environment improves health and wellbeing, prevents disease and helps people recover from illness. Experiencing nature in the outdoors…
Vancouver Greenest City in the World 2020
Creator: Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and the Greenest City Action Team. Purpose: To make Vancouver the Greenest City in the world by 2020. Vancouver Manifesto: Greenest City in the World 2020 Targets for 2020 Green Economy: Double the number of green jobs in the City over 2010 levels. Climate Leadership: Reduce community-based greenhouse gas emissions…
E.O. Wilson: Encyclopedia of Life
Creator: E.O. Wilson is one of the world’s top Biologists, author, two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and winner of the 2007 TED Prize. Purpose: To build a networked encyclopaedia of all the world’s knowledge about life. Encyclopedia of Life Manifesto (Excerpt from the Ted Video) I wish we would work…
The Cloud Appreciation Society Manifesto
Creator: The Cloud Appreciation Society Purpose: Because “…we love clouds and we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them.” (Society home page). The Cloud Appreciation Society Manifesto WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them. We think that they are…
Jeff Gailus: The Grizzly Manifesto
Creator: Jeff Gailus, Journalist and Conversations and author of The Grizzly Blog. Purpose: Highlight the need for Grizzly Bear conservation in North America. The Grizzly Manifesto: In Defence of the Great Bear The following is an extract from the authors blog (source below): The grizzly bear, once the archetype for all that is wild, is…
