Stonehouse Updates! We have been busy!

We have been busy at Stonehouse, and thought we had better give everyone an update.

First, we would like to introduce you to Julien Landry! He is a UBC student helping Stonehouse identify strategic alliances, populate the blog and roll-out another exciting project: ClimateAccess! A big, warm welcome to Julien!

Second, Stonehouse is now part of a very exciting initiative to launch a portal called ClimateAccess. There were many valuable connections made at the 2010 Stonehouse Summit and one of them resulted in ClimateAccess. Cara Pike brought the concept for ClimateAccess to Stonehouse, and we have since partnered with Cara's organization, The Social Capital Project, and Rutger's University.

This portal will be a dynamic learning network for climate practitioners. Users will be able to access communicaiton tools to build effective pulbic engagement campaigns that motivate support for climate change policies and shift behaviour! A key component of ClimateAccess will be linking practitioners with cutting-edge climate research. This system will in effect short circuit the usual long process of getting the right information into the hands of people that need it most. We are very excited to launch this site in April, so stay tuned, we are going to need your help.

Finally, after many drafts and deliberations, we are about to publish a summary of the 2010 Stonehouse Summit, and a thought peice entitled "Is The Environmental Community More Concerned About Being Right Than Being Effective?" by Brendan DeMelle and Margery Moore, in collaboration with Jim Hoggan.

You might be wondering when the next Stonehouse Summit is going to be. We are tentatively planning an amazing Summit for June, 2011. Stay tuned for that, too!