ECOPEI (http://www.ecopei.ca) - Island Energy (http://www.islandenergy.ning.com/) is created by Rob Paterson and is Prince Edward Island's own online social network. On this community site, members can have their own blog, join and create forums, and add video and pictures. Rob hopes that by working together we can use this site to share views, ideas and stories about how we can reduce our energy consumption and start to create our own local resources.

This site is powered by Ning and it is quite easy to build your own social network.

Congregations in PEI are making themselves parables of success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Churches are notoriously drafty buildings. But Prince Edward Island parishioners have seen the light when it comes to warmer pews on Sundays. With EcoAction support, dozens of the province's congregations have retrofitted their places of worship to reduce energy use, and make the link between faith, fuel oil and climate change.

Read more from EcoAction - Environment Canada

The City of Summerside has signed a contract with Ventus Energy to buy enough electricity to serve 23 per cent of its needs for the next 20 years. Ventus Energy will begin building a 99 MW wind farm next week at West Cape, on the southwest corner of P.E.I., which will serve the Summerside contract.

A joint effort of the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island and the Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation, The Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project combines protection of the natural area along the streams with wildlife enhancement, forest stewardship, watershed protection, environmental education and ecological research. Located in Orwell, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

www.macphailwoods.org

The Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island (ECO-P.E.I.) is a community based action group formed in 1988. Our goal is to work in partnership with others and indeed the land itself in order to understand and improve the Island environment.

The Prince Edward Island Eco-Net de l'Ile-du-Prince-Edouard (PEIEN) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental network of groups on Prince Edward Island who care about our environment. The organization was orginally formed in 1991 and was formally incorporated as a co-operative in 2000. The PEIEN is non-advocacy and thus does not take stands on particular issues. Instead, we try to help our member groups with the work they do through the sharing of information and provision of administrative and technical support. We are affiliated with 12 other Environmental Networks: a Network in each province, one in the Northern Territories, a First Nations Environmental Network, and a network of groups with a national focus such as the Sierra Club of Canada. We all come together under the Canadian Environmental Network (CEN), based in Ottawa, which coordinates the activities of 16 national Caucuses concerned with specific areas of interest.

An EcoAction project is helping PEI farmers find the best ways to protect the Island’s fresh- and salt-water habitats, and still get water to their cows. [Environment Canada: EcoAction]

The story of how the modest initiative to rehabilitate a local river has grown into a watershed-wide movement to improve the area’s biodiversity.

Read the article from Environment Canada.

Talk to anyone who has spent time on Prince Edward Island, and of course those who live there, and there is nothing less than true passion about the natural wonders of Canada’s smallest province.