Join the Club The ELC Club is a vibrant integral part of the ELC. They are a highly involved and motivated crew who organize student activities, lectures, conferences and participate in community projects. Examples of ELC Club activities: Cooking Up a Storm Conference March 14-15, 2007 ELC Club members organized this two-day conference that featured a diverse and intriguing range of panel members who often effectively flapped enormous warning flags with respect to food and water security issues both locally and globally. Along with some grim realities, the blended audience of scholars and community members were offered hope of growing social movements around food and were presented with alternatives and solutions that stretched from the practical to the imaginative. More... From Forest to Courtroom – The legal bid to save the spotted owl February 6, 2006 On February 28, ELC Club members hosted a public forum featuring two leading spotted owl advocates: Devon Page, staff lawyer with Sierra Legal Defence Fund (now Ecojustice), and Joe Foy, national campaign director with Western Canada Wilderness Committee. (Click here to see the poster.) Recording of Elizabeth May's talk Local Candidates Tackle ELC Enviro-Survey Prior to the January 2006 federal election, ELC Club members asked each of the Victoria riding candidates to respond to the following two questions: 1. In your opinion, what is the most important environmental issue facing residents of Victoria? If elected, how do you plan to address this issue? Here's what they said 2. In your opinion, what is the most important environmental issue of national or global significance? If elected, how do you plan to address this issue? Here's what they said

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Volunteer Volunteers are an integral part of the ELC. One of the most important tasks of a volunteer is assisting the ELC with research into current environmental and legal issues. This provides volunteers with a great opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and research skills and to share that knowledge with the organization and the public. The ELC also organizes hikes, outings like visits to spawning streams, potlucks, and fundraisers. Take the Class Students at the University of Victoria can take the Environmental Law Clinic course for academic credit. Class instructors include law professors and legal practitioners from Victoria. Members of the class undertake specific research projects for clients under the supervision of the instructors. These projects give the students an opportunity to develop important skills such as: working effectively with clients, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations; focusing, completing, and communicating research; and acquiring expertise on environmental and legal issues. Class members can incorporate ELC volunteers to assist them in their research. Why should you get involved in the Environmental Law Centre? To meet some great people outside of the law-school environment To gain relevant experience and skills in legal research, advocacy, writing, board/committee membership, fund development, etc... (the list goes on) To get invited to some great potlucks! To further explore your own personal committment to the environment To eventually take the Environmental Law Clinic course, Canada's first Environmental Law Clinic   Click to view photos and read about the ELC's efforts with the University of Washington Environmental Law Clinic to save areas at risk in the Skagit Valley