CIP Writers' Bureau

WEB SITES, RESOURCES and REFERENCES

Emergency Preparedness Get Ready! Page 52.

www.gov.bc.ca/for/ - BC Forest Service
To report a forest fire: 1-800-663-5555 or
*5555 on the Telus and Rogers cellular
networks

www.bchydro.com - BC Hydro
To report power outages and electrical
emergencies: 1-888-769-3766

www.island.net/~bcpa - BC Paraplegic Association

www.bcaa.com - British Columbia Automobile Association
emergency road service: 1-800-222-4357

www.avalanche.ca - Canadian Avalanche Association

www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca - Canadian Housing Information Centre

www.cnib.ca - Canadian National Institute for the Blind

www.canparaplegic.org - Canadian Paraplegic Association

www.redcross.ca - Canadian Red Cross

www.centragas.com - Centra Gas

www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/corpsvcs/emerg/ - City of Vancouver Emergency Program

www.vep.city.victoria.bc.ca - City of Victoria Emergency Program

www.jibc.bc.ca/ - Justice Institute of B.C.

www.gov.bc.ca/healthplanning/ - Ministry of Health Planning

www.gov.bc.ca/healthservices/ - Ministry of Health Services

www.ess.bc.ca - Ministry of Human Resources, Emergency Social Services

www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighways - Ministry of Transportation

www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca - Natural Resources Canada

Emergency Preparedness Get Ready! Individual and Neighbourhood ALL HAZARD Emergency Preparedness Workbook, by the BC Ministry of Public Safety and the Solicitor General and the Provincial Emergency Program.
http://alt.pep.sfu.ca/hazard_preparedness/AllHazards_WEB.pdf.

Environment / Sustainable Forestry / Global Village Overview

GERMAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS TAKE UP THE PEN
"Part of Our Soul"
Göttingen, Germany, Mar. 8, 2004 (Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte - Institute for the History of Science, via Left Coast News) - Really old trees are seldom seen in Germany. Really old forests that have survived the radical impact of human beings for hundreds, if not thousands of years, no longer exist. The same is true for all of Middle Europe.

Old trees awaken a special, mystical fascination in human beings. Forests with old trees provide biological habitats for many different species of wildlife which have no alternative spaces in which to live. Old trees and ancient forests are not only a priceless natural treasure for the human inhabitants of a country, they also provide an enduring livelihood for them, especially in a country that depends to a great extent on nature tourism.

The last ancient forests in British Columbia are presently being clearcut in large part to supply pulp for the production of newspapers, magazines and toilet paper. What has taken thousands of years to grow, is now used only briefly, and then simply discarded. What is left? Many
jobs? Many sustainable jobs? An enduring sustainable economic growth for the province? Hardly.

British Columbia is a wonderful part of our earth, but it is selling part of its soul, the part which belongs to all human beings. The deeply held longing for an undisturbed and wild Nature brings people to British Columbia from all other parts of the world. Here they hope to enjoy a
vacation, to hike or to take part in other forms of outdoor recreation which in turn contribute to the economic strength of the Province.

There is no way around the sustainable use of our forests and our biological habitats, not in British Columbia, not in Germany, and not in any other parts of the world. It is time to choose a new path, to search for a compromise in order to save our most irreplaceable biological habitats. I therefore hope that the last remnants of the ancient wild
forests of British Columbia, the incomparable heritage of humankind, will be preserved.

Stefan Wenzel, MdL
Member of Parliament, State of Lower Saxony
German Green Party

Mr. Stefan Wenzel
Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
im Niedersächsischen Landtag
Hinrich-Wilhelm-Kopf-Platz 1
D - 30159 Hannover, Germany
Tel 49 0511 30303301
Fax 49 0511 30303807
http://www.wenzel-goe.de/
http://www.gruene-niedersachsen.de/home_nav.php3

Home address:
Wilhelm-Bendick-Str. 23
D - 37130 Gleichen, Germany
Tel 49 05508 999703
Fax 49 05508 999704
Email: post@wenzel-goe.de

Dr. Karen Wonders
Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
(Institute for the History of Science)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Papendiek 16
D-37073 Göttingen Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)551-39-84 12
Fax: +49-(0)551-39-97 48
Email: kwonder@gwdg.de

http://www.gwdg.de/~uhwg/welcomeengl.html.