Air, Water and Land are vital to our survival
Len served on the:
- Clear Air Strategic Alliance Board of Directors (CASA)
- CASA Clean Air Strategy Project Team planning a 20 to 40 year clean air strategy for the province of Alberta
- Alberta Urban Municipalities Association Board of Directors (AUMA) Governance Committee that presented a land use policy paper to the Government of Alberta
- Shared Governance-Watershed Planning Framework Project for the Alberta Water Council as an alternate
Protecting the Environment through Education
Len has:
- Provided environmental education to approximately 1000 junior high school students through the Alberta Hunter Training Program
- Provided forestry education to approximately 300 high school students
- Educated campers of all ages about enjoying and protecting the great out doors of Alberta through Pioneer Ranch Camps
Trails and parkland in St. Albert
Len lobbied to establish:
- The Red Willow Trail System in St. Albert
- Big Lake as a provincial park (Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park established 2005)
- Expansion of Highway 2 for potential LRT construction
- The Recycle depot in St. Albert that leads Alberta in waste reduction per capita
- John Poole Interpretive Walkway
Environmental Leadership provided by St. Albert City Council 2001-2007
- Established St. Albert Office of the Environment
- City State of the Environment Reports
- Environment Management System
- Transit ISO 14001 certified
- Public works ISO 14001 certification in progress
- Naturalization – protecting and restoring natural areas in St. Albert
- U-pass for St. Albert students’ transportation – leadership provided by St. Albert Council in the Capital Region
- Flood plain mapping of Sturgeon River Basin
- Traffic lights with LEEDs panel systems saving taxpayers $60,000 to 80,000/year
- LEEDs street lights
- Solar panel for new fire hall
- New Fire Hall is Gold LEEDs certification
- Anti-idling bylaw
- Anti-idling policy for transit buses
- Latest environmental technology in Servus Place
- Grid separators and city clean up crews prevented 86% of sand from reaching the river
- Preservation of Natural Places like the White Spruce Forest in Timberlea
- Designating the White Spruce Forest a heritage forest
- Creation of new wetlands on old sewage lagoon
- Storm water ponds to purify water before entering the Sturgeon River
- Utilization of old garbage dump for sports and recreation facilities
- Partnerships with volunteers and community organizations/groups
- Partnerships with federal, provincial, other municipal governments, Ducks Unlimited and private sector
- Reduced water use
- Reduced garbage going to landfill
