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For more than 30 years, Peterborough GreenUP has been central and eastern Ontario's leading environmental organization focused on education, sustainability, and stewardship. GreenUP is a non-profit charitable organization and an active community organization that offers dozens of programs and services to those living in Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes. For more information, visit greenup.on.ca
Lakefield resident Guy Hanchet proudly displays his newly installed solar panels. Despite not having an ideal rooftop for solar, he expects to power about half of his annual electricity use from the system. (Photo: Clara Blakelock / GreenUP)

Home battery backup systems gaining ground as solar installations grow in Peterborough

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Lakefield resident Guy Hanchet worked with Generation Solar to install rooftop solar panels with a battery backup system.
Cambium Consulting & Engineering staff show off their recycled plastic concrete molds. By turning their previously discarded plastic molds into reusable ones, the Peterborough firm is proving how businesses can lead the way in building a circular economy. From left to right: facilities and environmental health and safety manager Jeff Hoskin, technologist and green team representative Hillary Bradshaw, group manager for construction testing and inspection Brian Graham, and coordinator and green team representative Becky Yarnell. (Photo: Connor Evans / Cambium)

How a Peterborough engineering and environmental firm embraced the circular economy by turning waste...

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After discovering 10,000 of their testing molds were going to landfill every year, Cambium partnered with a plastics recycler to turn the waste into reusable molds.
Some of the 100 volunteers planting trees at Wedgewood Park in Peterborough on September 10, 2025. The event saw 515 trees planted as part of the City of Peterborough's Trees 4 Peterborough initiative. (Photo: Christina Balint / GreenUP)

Peterborough grows greener, one tree at a time

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From Wedgewood Park to Rogers Cove, volunteers and local sponsors join the city's Trees 4 Peterborough program to restore biodiversity and climate resilience.
Safe routes to walk and roll to school are the goal when school zone speed limits are lowered. Only 50 per cent of people struck by a vehicle traveling at 50km/h will survive their injuries, whereas 90 per cent will survive being struck at 30 km/h. (Photo: Pete Rellinger)

‘Walktober’ marks progress and challenges in making Peterborough’s school zones safer

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Reduced speed limits are working, but city data shows there's still more to do to curb speeding near schools.
Mycelium, the part of a fungus hidden under the soil, connects to the roots of trees and provides a network through which trees communicate and transfer carbon nutrients to one another using chemical signals. The reciprocity between species mimic that which can be found through connections in community. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

Rooted in connection: what forests can teach Peterborough about climate action

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Just as trees share nutrients through hidden networks, community members and organizations can strengthen resilience by working together toward a greener future,
Through the City of Peterborough's Rain Garden Subsidy Program, eligible homeowners receive up to $1,000 toward the cost of designing and installing a rain garden, with support from GreenUP. The pilot program is coming to a close in fall 2005. Pictured is a rain garden at the east-end home of Peterborough resident Sheila Day, who took part in the program. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

GreenUP looks at the people and plants behind three rain gardens in Peterborough

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There's still time to apply for the City of Peterborough's Rain Garden Subsidy Program this fall before the pilot program ends.
Restoration Wednesday volunteers Stephanie Larstone (left) and Sophia Ibrahim (right) remove invasive common buckthorn and other undesirable plants with GreenUP landscape steward Andréanna Sullivan at Ecology Park. The crew cleared the area ahead of a restoration planting. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

Restoration Wednesdays at GreenUP Ecology Park in Peterborough grow community and climate resilience

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Volunteers have been transforming invasive-dominated spaces into thriving native habitats while learning, connecting, and giving back to the land.
Students from Queen Mary Public School show off their transit passes for Grade 8 Transit Quest, a transit encouragement campaign organized by Active School Travel Peterborough. Transit ridership in youth is important for building life skills, accessing extracurricular opportunities, and fostering independence. (Photo: Natalie Stephenson / GreenUP)

Step into the new school year with active school travel in Peterborough

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Choosing to walk, bike, or bus to school is an easy way to get your family moving while promoting health, connection, and increased safety.
Through a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough, members of GreenUP's Youth Climate Action Leadership group created gardens at the YES Shelter for Youth and Families in June 2025, providing residents with an opportunity to tend the plants, access food, and enjoy the beauty of the gardens. (Photo: Justin Sutton / Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough)

Tomorrow’s leaders are taking climate action today with support from GreenUP and Community Foundation...

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Youth Climate Action Leadership group chose to use $5,000 grant to build gardens at YES Shelter for Youth and Families.
Frank and Anna Maria Buxton retired to Douro 11 years ago to be close to family and have the space to grow their own vegetables. They installed a heat pump in 2023, and are planning a solar installation for this fall. Since they began retrofits, their utility costs have fallen drastically. (Photo: Clara Blakelock / GreenUP)

Douro homeowners cut energy costs by two-thirds by replacing their propane furnace with a...

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Combined with improved airtightness, the heat pump has also reduced Frank and Anna Maria Buxtons' greenhouse gas emissions by 78%.
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