CRUSISIS Membership

CRUSISIS Sustainable Living is On-line and Real-time resource within the community. It is dedicated to inform and inspire people to action for living in harmony, in a healthy, socially just, earth-friendly and locally sustaining manner.

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CRUSISIS Community Benefits

Some of the benefits our CRUSISIS Community enjoys include:

• 5 Seasonal Guides filled with dozens of pages of beneficial & timely resources
• Green Tips & Resources for home, work or play
• Embedded Links to Seasonal & Sustainable Events
• CRUSISIS-hosted Community Events (FREE for Members only & to public with entry fee)
• A like-minded community
• Being part of a catalyst that incites positive change and calls people to action for socially conscious, eco-friendly, community-based endeavours and choices.
• Other CRUSISIS services available to the public including:
  
  • Eco-Search Matrix (search engine for sustainable living resources)
  • Sustainable Events Listing
  • Eco-Local List (local & sustainable directory for products & services)
  • My CRUSISIS services to list your sustainable events &/or business

We planted a seed. For only $20 per year (+ HST), you can join our community and help us grow a strong voice for positive change.

Upcoming Benefits for CRUSISIS Community

Upcoming Real-Time Services in our Halifax area community will include (2010):

• Workshops for local, healthy, sustainable living (ie: cooking classes, etc...)
• Community Events – to support sustainable initiatives, near and far (ie: TASTE for the Cure)

Upcoming On-Line Services for our website will include (date TBA):

• Eco-Crunching^TM - Crunching the numbers re: Ecological decision-making
• CRUSISIS 100-mile Diet^TM - Adopt the 100-Mile Diet mentality in Halifax

Seasonal Guides to Sustainable Living

• Solely available on-line at CRUSISIS.ca
• Detailed Guide to living sustainably in greater Halifax area & beyond including for example in Spring Guide 2009:
  • 60 pages with 9 seasonal themes & 9 contributing authors
  • Seasonal Contest Draw (ie: CarShareHFX Membership)
• Launched 5 times per year (with each season), including the Holidays, to a targeted audience
  

Guide Contents & Layout (Typical)

1. Guide Title Page with Theme Links
2. Intro & Hot Links (to preferred sections within each theme)
3. Seasonal Pre-Amble to set the stage and mood of the season
4. Philosophical Proposal, to get into a sustainable mindset & inspire seasonally appropriate choices.  It also often includes one or all of these sections:
   1. CRUSISIS Everyday Environmentalist
   2. CRUSISIS Everyday Heroes (Near & Far)
   3. Green Bootcamp section
5. Three Seasonally Specific Themes which vary, including multiple topics, for examples from Spring Guide 2009:
   1. Green Cleaning
   2. Spring Celebrations (Earth Day & Mothers Day)
   3. Eco-commuting
   4. Green Renovations
   5. Natural Healing for Allergies
   6. Spring Gardening

Standard Guide Inclusions (Typical)

1. Varying Community Contributors/ Authors, expert in their field:
   1. Green Architect Jennifer Corson of Solterre
   2. Urban Gardner from Halifax Seed
2. Natural Health section (ie: Naturopaths Dr. Lycette & Dr. Hayman)
3. CRUSISIS Everyday Gourmet for healthy, local recipes & restaurants suggestions, such as:
   
   1. The Wooden Monkey
   2. janes & Tareks (Past Guides)
4. Gift or Consumerism Ideas (ie: locally produced or Canadian)
5. Seasonal Draw Contest for members with each guide such as:
   1. Green Shopping Spree with Plovers the Environmental Store
   2. Home-cooked Harvest Dinner with Local Source Market & Terroir Catering
   3. Weekend Get-Away @ Pictou Lodge Beachfront Resort (Summer Guide)
      
6. Free Promotion of multiple People, Planet & Community-friendly organizations & events.

(Guides are also a great opportunity to buy paid advertising on a website visited by a targeted audience that gets thousands of hits each month.)

  •  $20.00CAD
  •  365 Days