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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
A narrow rain garden, which takes in water from a nearby roof, installed with help from the Rain Garden Subsidy program offered by the City of Peterborough with support from GreenUP. In 2022, the city has increased the subsidy from a maximum of $500 to a maximum of $1,000 per garden, to cover a greater proportion of the costs associated with designing and installing a rain garden. (Photo: Hayley Goodchild)

The benefits of rain gardens and how you can get up to $1,000 from...

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The first article in a series from Peterborough GreenUP about taking climate action at home.
While lights remained on in other buildings, the United Nation Headquarters complex in New York went dark for Earth Hour in 2015. Transformational environmental awareness and legislative change start with individual actions as part of movements like Earth Hour. (Photo: John Gillespie)

Why switching off your lights during Earth Hour on Saturday night matters

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Transformational environmental awareness and change begins when we take responsibility for our own contributions to climate change.
A pair of boots in melting snow. (Stock photo)

Where the snow goes after it melts and why it matters

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The flood and drought implications of how we deal with snow, meltwater, and run-off.
Sponsored by the City of Peterborough and coordinated by Active School Travel Peterborough, the Grade 8 Transit Quest provides free Peterborough Transit passes to all Grade 8 students within the City of Peterborough for the duration of March Break. (Photo: Vicky Paradisis / Peterborough Transit)

Grade 8 Transit Quest is the ticket to freedom for youth and parents in...

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Program provides free transit passes for Grade 8 students for the duration of March Break.
A group of participants in GreenUP's 2021 Girl's Climate Leadership Program study the habitat of Meade Creek with the leadership of Jenn McCallum, environmental education technician with Lower Trent Conservation. Education about our natural environment can empower us to protect our natural world. (Photo: Genevieve Ramage)

Summer camps can provide many more benefits than just summer fun

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Peterborough GreenUP explains how they can be powerful tools for youth development, socialization, and climate leadership.
Although maple syrup is quinessentially identified with Canadians, European settlers learned how to make it from Indigenous peoples who had been harvesting sap from maples for centuries for its healing and nourishing powers. Anishinaabe words for the sap of the maple tree include wiishkabaaboo (sweet water), ziisbaakwadaaboo (sugar water), and ninaatigwaaboo (maple tree water). Today, human-induced climate change is threatening southern Ontario's maple forests. (Stock photo)

‘Sweet water’ of sugar maple connects us to Indigenous heritage and settler traditions

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Climate change threatens southern Ontario's maple forests and our beloved maple syrup.
Rather than spreading salt around your property, consider more environmentally friendly alternatives like sand, non-clumping kitty litter, or even fireplace ashes. The GreenUP Store also carries Clean and Green Ice Melter by Swish, an ice-melter that's gentle on vegetation, concrete, water, and floors. It's not corrosive and is completely safe to handle with bare hands, so it's safer around children and pets too. It also more effective than salt when it's extremely cold, as it will continues to melt ice at -22° C. (Photo: Karen Halley)

Reduce your use of road salt this winter and help protect our drinking water

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Consider alternatives that work at lower temperatures and are better for your property, your pets, and the environment.
A family walking to school along the Trent-Severn Waterway spots a large bird in a nearby tree. Is it a hawk, an eagle, or an owl? These aerial predators are common sights at this time of year and can make for exciting wildlife sightings during a winter walk to school. (Photo: Genevieve Ramage for GreenUP)

Walking to school is good for kids and families, even in the winter

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GreenUP and Active School Travel Peterborough share five benefits of including active transportation in your daily routine.
This Valentine's Day, material expressions of love can have the desired impact without adversely impacting the environment. The GreenUP Store carries locally made soaps and bath bombs by Simply Natural Canada, cards by Jackson Creek Press, and folk art coffee-lover hearts by Brianna Gosselin. (Photo courtesy of the GreenUP Store)

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with gifts that show your love for the environment too

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There are locally sourced and fair trade alternatives to mass-produced cards, chocolate, and flowers.
Cara Livingston commuting by bike on a nice sunny winter's day at -20°C. Before joining Winter Wheels, an annual program offered by B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop for people who have limited experience with winter riding, Cara only cycled in the winter if absolutely necessary. (Photo: Jacob Bozek)

With a little preparation, you too can enjoy cycling in the winter

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Peterborough resident Cara Livingston shares her winter biking experience after joining B!KE's Winter Wheels program.
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