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The Association

The Association holds the Red Road standard. Take what is needed. Return the rest.

Glass Road Community Investment Association is the non-profit. It keeps the rule for land and ocean use. It does not replace a Mi’kmaw government, and it does not speak for Sipekne’katik First Nation. This page is a public draft for review. It is not a law, a tax, or an offering.

The rule is a closed loop. Food, hide, and fish may be used. Shell, bone, and processing waste come back into soil, forestry, or marine recovery. Waste is not treated as something to landfill or export.

Three jobs sit under that rule:

  • Land. Hides and bone from processing stay in the district. Compost goes back to tired forest soil.
  • Ocean. Fish and shellfish waste stays in the territory and is returned as nutrient, not dumped. The Association does not manage the fishery.
  • Farm. Indoor growing and later aquaponics are built so heat and organic waste stay in the system. The Co-op runs the first farm and the first five-unit building. The Association holds the standard those projects are meant to meet.

How a return works, in plain steps:

  1. A kitchen or plant uses lobster or fish.
  2. Shell and bone are kept, not thrown out.
  3. The material is brought to a Co-op collection point.
  4. The Association records the weight against what was used.
  5. Shell goes back to soil and forestry. Bone can feed hatchery work.

The Co-op is the working face. The Association is the record and the rule. A later project moves here only if members, and the right governing body, agree.

Licensed community tickets are one way to fund this work, after registration and a Nova Scotia Ticket Lottery licence. No tickets are for sale on this site.