ORIAS

ORIAS was founded in 2008 as a sister organization to Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition (STORM) that would allow STORM to focus on environmental advocacy. Through a series of workshops, planning sessions and a conference hosted by ORIAS it became apparent that regional civil society networks needed to work concurrently at multiple scales and across multiple problem domains - continuing to champion environmental issues while also fostering synergistic effects to promote systemic change towards sustainability. ORIAS' mission is to conduct, interpret and disseminate community-based research on resilience, social innovation and sustainability to inform policy development and decision making within linked social and ecological systems, such as the Oak Ridges Moraine.