< Coastal Learning Communities Network

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The Coastal Learning Communities Network is working to revitalize Canada’s coastal communities by empowering coastal residents through shared learning, collective action, and the embracing of indigenous approaches to natural resource management. Its members live on Canada's three coasts and along the shores of major freshwater bodies.

The Network has developed four overlapping spheres of program activities: story telling, focused issue analysis, learning circles, and communications technology. The Network strives to be inclusive; welcoming First Nations and non-Aboriginal participants, university-based and community-based learners. The Network continues to extend its outreach to other First Nations, coastal communities, universities, and policy makers.

People who are interested in community-based management of coastal resources, who believe that the health of our communities and the health of natural resources are closely linked, and who think that management and policy must incorporate a wide range of economic, social, and cultural values are encouraged to join the Coastal Learning Communities Network.

* Dawn Morrison from the Secwepemc First Nation and Alice Martin from the Mikisew Cree First Nation were in South Africa from October 22 to November 2, 2009 on the first leg of Canada-South Africa Learning Exchange.

* A new resource page has been set up for the colonial commons learning circle. The audio recording of the first learning circle on 26 August 2009 is now available on this page.

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*The 2nd issue of the Subsistence Economies Newsletter is now available. Go to the Subsistence Economy page to download.

*The 2nd international conference call of the Coastal Learning Communities Network in Canada with Coastal Links and the Masifundise Development Trust in South Africa was held on December 17, 2008 at 1:00 PM Atlantic Standard Time. Notes from the first exchange can be viewed by clicking the link on the International Initiative page.

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*On October 4-5, 2008, the Coastal Learning Communities Network held a national workshop in Stephenville, Newfoundland, which highlighted the importance of small-scale harvesting in supporting the social and economic health of communities in Canada. This event was co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Socioeconomics of Integrated Management and the Long-Range Regional Economic Development Board, Zone 9. Proceedings of the workshop will be available here in the near future.