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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
The Peterborough Community Orchard Stewards recently gathered at the GreenUP office for an end-of-season lunch. Pictured here taking a break from reflection and goal setting to show off their newly printed T-shirts, the group tends to 13 fruit orchards planted in neighbourhoods around Peterborough. (Photo: Tegan Moss / GreenUP)

Peterborough’s community orchards are growing more than fruit

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Volunteers with GreenUP's Community Orchard Stewards tend 13 neighbourhood fruit orchards, building belonging, boosting biodiversity, and providing free food.
In an effort to restore the tree canopy in Peterborough damaged by recent climate events, GreenUP has planted hundreds of native trees throughout the community with the support of volunteers, including along the Trans Canada Trail in Ecology Park in June 2025. This planting project was funded in part by a grant from the Trans Canada Trail along with donations from the community. (Photo: Yvonne Hollandy / GreenUP)

With climate impacts intensifying, GreenUP urges donations to help restore Peterborough’s tree canopy

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Environmental organization launches winter fundraiser to grow more native trees in Ecology Park and plant them in the community.
Inside Charlotte Products' Peterborough facility, staff oversee the packaging of environmentally responsible cleaning products. The company uses a supply chain that emphasizes Ontario-based materials and partnerships to minimize emissions and cost. (Photo courtesy of Charlotte Products)

Charlotte Products in Peterborough leads by example in greening the supply chain

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Through local sourcing and collaboration, the cleaning products manufacturer is cutting emissions while strengthening the local economy.
Within a one square metre block of a Little Forest, plants can be arranged randomly to mimic a natural forest setting. St. John Catholic Elementary School students are shown here placing marker flags for each tree, with the flag noting the tree species and the name of the planter. This will help students put a name to the face of the 30 different species that are planted at their school. (Photo: Laura Keresztesi / GreenUP)

‘Little Forests’ at Peterborough schools are growing the new generation of environmental stewards

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Guided by GreenUP, students are transforming schoolyards into native ecosystems while learning about ecology, biodiversity, and climate action.
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.
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