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Tools & Resources
We have compiled tools, resources and web links that we hope will be helpful in developing plans for a sustainable Gabriola.
Resources
The following is a list of resources that you might find usefull. If you are aware of others, please pass them on so we can post them.
- Emergency planning Follow the links below for Emergency Planning information:
- Gabriola Emergency Social Services (GESS):A link to the GESS web site for a detailed discussion of Emergancy Preparedness on Gabriola.
- Rural District of Nanaimo emergency planning:
- Neighborhood Emergency Preparation.
- Hazard Vulnerability Risk Analyses.
- Gabriola Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
- NEP general one page flyer.
- All Hazards preparedness publication.
- A sample three day emergency food supply menu.
- Detailed discussion of bottled water.
- Emergency supplies checklist.
- Detailed of the emergency food pyramid.
- New Society Publishers - Click here to visit New Society Publishers, the activist publisher focused on solutions and social change. Our Books are tools to Build a New Society. They help you to know the talk, and walk the talk. They're packed with analysis that's hard to find, ideas to keep you current, inspiration for the daily struggle, and practical tools to change the world.
- Other:
- Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food – An Eater’s Manifesto, Penquin USA, 2009
- Ibid. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Penquin USA, 2007
- Ibid. The Botany of Desire, Random House, 2002
- McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Times Books, 2007
- Samso Island - Samso Island Is The Face of Danish Green Revolution. Click to visit.
- Salt Spring Island Sustainability checklist - Islands Trust and Capital Regional District joined forces August 2009 to create the Salt Spring Island Sustainability Checklist for Single Family Dwellings. The checklist is a guide that allows property owners to design in a manner that will save long term costs and lessen damage on our fragile environment. (Click here for a print friendly version of this document.) Please send us any comments and let us know if you think this checklist would be helpful for Gabriola residents To contact us click here.
- Water harvesting Click here to download a pdf file of two articles on rain harvesting taken from the Watershed Sentinal.