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  • Working with Albertan Farmers to Create Climate Solutions That Are Good for the Farmer, the Farm, and the Climate

    Rural Routes to Climate Solutions (RR2CS) is a central Alberta based project providing agricultural producers with learning opportunities to benefit from climate solutions. It is led by project coordinator, Derek Leahy and supervised by programs manager, Brenda Barritt of the Stettler Learning Centre. RR2CS runs farm field days, workshops and conference speakers series’ and produces…


  • ENVIRx

    ENVIRx is a provincial medication and sharps disposal program administered by the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association (RxA). Pharmacists apply to participate in the ENVIRx program, which is available to community pharmacies for the safe disposal of post-consumer pharmaceutical waste. Albertans are encouraged to return old or unused medications and sharps to their community pharmacy for proper…


  • AWES – Trees are the Solution

    The Agroforestry & Woodlot Extension Society (AWES) was formed in 2010 out of the Woodlot Extension Program, a government initiative to encourage sustainable development of private forests. The non-profit restructured and added agroforestry to its mandate in recognition of the prevalence of agriculture within and around these forests. “When it started in 2010, its primary…