Judy Brownoff

Just click on the links below to begin your educational journey...

Smart Growth

• CRD Regional Growth Strategy
• Smart Growth BC

Urban Design

• Public Spaces
• New Urbanism
• Great Streets
• Build Smart
• General Resource
• General Resource

Healthy Cities

• BC Healthy Communities
• Quality of Life Challenge
• Active Living
• Community Council of BC
• Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC)
• BC Healthy Living Alliance

Transportation

• Victoria Car Share
• Transportation Alternatives
• Walk to School
• Public Transportation
• Victoria Transport Institute

Housing

• CRD Housing Affordability Strategy
• Housing Affordability
• Well Designed Affordable Housing

Environment

• Green Cities (USA)
• Urban Farming
• Energy Planning
• Sierra Club
• Dogwood Institute
• Simon Fraser University Imagine BC
• The Natural Step
• Greater Victoria Water Watch
• Lifecycles of Greater Victoria
• The Land Conservancy of BC
• Georgia Strait Alliance
• Canadian Association of Physicians For the Environment
• Labour Environmental Alliance Society
• Toxic Free Canada
• The Green Guide

Organic Gardening

• Organic Gardening
• Weeds BC
• Garden Wise
• Every Lawn a Garden
• SOUL - The Society for Organic Urban Landcare

Suggested Reading List for Healthy Lawns and Gardens

• How to Get your Lawn & Garden Off Drugs, Carole Rubin, 1989
• Building a Healthy Lawn: A safe and natural approach, Franklin Stuart, 1988
• The Chemical — Free Lawn, Warren Schultz, 1989
• How to Get your Lawn Off Grass, Carole Rubin, 2001
• Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden, Rhonda Massingham Hart, 2005
• Household Solutions 1 with Substitutions, Reena Nerbas, 2007
• Household Solutions 2 with Kitchen Secrets, Reena Nerbas, 2007

Suggested Reading List on Pesticides and Health Risks

• David Suzuki Foundation - Download the recent report called Northern Exposure: Acute Pesticide Poisoning in Canada
• Ontario College of Family Physicians
• West Coast Environmental Law