Citizens Environment Alliance (CEA)

275 Oak Avenue
Windsor, ON
N9A 5E5
Phone: (519) 973-1116
http://www.citizensenvironmentalliance.org/

Profile

The Citizens Environment Alliance (CEA) is a non-profit, grass-roots, international, education and research organization. We are committed to an ecosystem approach to environmental planning and management.

The CEA was formed in 1985 by citizens concerned about spills from the (Sarnia) Chemical Valley into the St. Clair River (the Toxic blob), and how those spills affected the region's drinking water. Later, the CEA began to focus on the questions of toxins in the Great Lakes, as well as air quality throughout the transboundary area.

Environmental Commitment

The Citizens Environment Alliance strives to protect, restore and enhance the quality of the local environment in the Detroit-St. Clair River corridors, the western basin of Lake Erie and in the Windsor-Essex-Kent Region of the Great Lakes Basin.

Our Guiding Principles:
- To gather and disseminate information to educate the public, citizens' groups, labour and business groups, environmental organizations, schools and other resource groups about environmental problems and solutions as they relate to the Great Lakes Ecosystem, and in particular, to the Windsor-Essex-Kent Region and the Detroit-St. Clair Rivers' waterways along with the western basin of Lake Erie.
- To assist and supplement the ongoing environmental programs of the Ministry of the environment, Environment Canada, municipalities, townships and international organizations; and,
- To raise funds by way of donations, grants, bequests and other similar methods for the purpose of advancing the aforesaid goals and objectives.

Social Commitment

As the group has grown, so too have the issues of concern. These now include waste management, wetland and natural areas protection, environmental land use planning, energy use and the long-term implications of economic growth on the environment. The Alliance's annual activities since its inception have aimed at increasing public knowledge of the area ecosystems and the impact humans have on these systems.

We are members of the Ontario Environment Network and the Canadian Environmental Network. The CEA is registered with the Department of National Revenue as charitable organization.

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Resources > Water Resources & Water Quality
Resources > Waste (Solid) & Recycling
Resources > Green Living/Sustainable Living > Liveable Cities & Communities
Resources > Green Living/Sustainable Living > Energy & Environment
Resources > Energy, Climate Change & Your Carbon Footprint
Resources > Ecosystems, Wildlife & Biodiversity

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