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• Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots www.rootsandshoots.org/ www.rootsandshoots.org/ "The Power of Youth is Global" A program of the Jane Goodall Institute. The Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen�??for our people, for animals and for the environment. With tens of thousands of young people in more than 120 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a desire to create a better world. Young people identify problems in their communities and take action. Through service projects, youth-led campaigns and an interactive website, Roots & Shoots members are making a difference across the globe. Posted June 9, 2011 at 12:33 AM

Sites that provide more information on evolution and our common ancestry with other life forms on earth.

• Description on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale The Ancestor's Tale (subtitled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life) is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history, meeting humanity's cousins as they converge on common ancestors. The book was nominated for the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Posted February 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM

• Understanding Evolution evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01 evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01 Welcome to Evolution 101! by the Understanding Evolution team What is evolution and how does it work? Evolution 101 provides the nuts-and-bolts on the patterns and mechanisms of evolution. Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:12 PM

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• Halton-Peel Humanist Community haltonpeelhumanists.ca haltonpeelhumanists.ca Local organization of humanists, skeptics, freethinkers and atheists who endorse scientific education as the main way of liberating ourselves from centuries of religious indoctrination. Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM

• Royal Ontario Museum www.rom.on.ca/ www.rom.on.ca/ The Royal Ontario Museum is among the world’s leading museums of natural history, and of world cultures. Indeed, in combining a universal museum of cultures with that of natural history, the ROM offers an unusual breadth of experience to visitors and scholars from around the world. We realize more acutely now that nature and humanity are intertwined, and the ROM offers many examples in its collections and programs of these fundamental relationships. Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:29 PM

• The Riverwood Conservancy www.theriverwoodconservancy.org/ www.theriverwoodconservancy.org/ The Riverwood Conservancy is a volunteer- and member-based charity that provides programs and services to the community in nature and environmental education, stewardship of Riverwood, and gardening and horticulture. Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM

• Credit Valley Conservation https://cvc.ca/ https://cvc.ca/ CVC is a community-based environmental organization originally formed by an Act of provincial government and dedicated to conserving, restoring, developing and managing natural resources on a watershed basis. Posted March 4, 2011 at 4:43 AM

• Sierra Club, Peel https://www.sierraclub.ca/en/ontario/peel https://www.sierraclub.ca/en/ontario/peel Sierra Club Peel is a group of involved citizens who carry out environmental campaigns and conservation projects in the Region of Peel. Our mission is to educate, enlighten, and empower the residents of Peel to be defenders and responsible stewards of our natural environment. Posted March 4, 2011 at 4:54 AM

• Mississauga Freethought Association freethoughtcanada.ca/ freethoughtcanada.ca/ The primary aim of the MFA is to create a community of conscientious citizens who can gather to discuss current local and/or global issues from the perspective of a freethinker, irrespective of religious or cultural affiliation or lack thereof Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:28 PM

• Centre for Inquiry www.cficanada.ca/ontario www.cficanada.ca/ontario We are an educational charity with a legal mandate to educate and provide training to the public in the application of skeptical, secular, rational, and humanistic enquiry through conferences, symposia, lectures, published works and the maintenance of a library, and to develop communities where like-minded individuals can meet and share their experiences Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM

• Humanist Canada https://www.humanistcanada.ca/ https://www.humanistcanada.ca/ Promoting the separation of religion from public policy and fostering the development of reason, compassion and critical thinking for all Canadians through secular education and community support. Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:30 PM

• Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board www.dpcdsb.org/cec www.dpcdsb.org/cec Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM

• Peel District School Board www.peel.edu.on.ca/ www.peel.edu.on.ca/ Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM

• University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus www.utm.utoronto.ca/ www.utm.utoronto.ca/ Posted February 11, 2011 at 6:28 PM