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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
Through programming that reaches over 10,000 children each year, working with 700-plus businesses, and services that have already supported 40 per cent of all Peterborough homes, Peterborough GreenUP has been the leading environmental charity in the Kawarthas region for 30 years. Pictured are a group of campers studying wetland habitat at an Earth Adventures summer camp at GreenUP Ecology Park. (Photo: Peterborough GreenUP)

Peterborough GreenUP celebrates 30 years as region’s leading environmental charity

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In advance of 30th birthday party on August 11, executive director Tegan Moss shares the organization's plans for the coming decades
Peterborough GreenUP's Water Wise Landscape Recognition Program celebrates doing away with the water-intensive monoculture of grass to invite the shape and colour of biodiversity into your own front yard. (Photo: Hayley Goodchild)

Take a stroll through your Peterborough neighbourhood and nominate a water wise front yard

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GreenUP program recognizes property owners who are reducing water consumption and creating habitat for native plants and pollinators.
A dragonhunter dragonfly (Hagenius brevistylus) in the Kawarthas. At 8.4cm long, this species is much larger than any other clubtail dragonfly in North America. Adults feed on smaller varieties of dragonflies. Dragonflies grow from nymphs that live in the water, and species like this require healthy ecosystems connecting the water, land, and air to thrive. (Photo: Leif Einarson)

Find solace by connecting with nature this summer

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Peterborough GreenUP shares how we can enhance our well-being during these turbulent times
You can fill your reusable water bottle for free at The Night Kitchen pizzeria in downtown Peterborough, one of 80 participating BlueWptbo locations in the greater Peterborough area. (Photo: Emily Twomey)

BlueWptbo provides easy access to free drinking water in the Peterborough area

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Fill your reusable water bottle at over 80 participating locations and avoid costly and environmentally unfriendly plastic water bottles.
Taylor Wilkes with Blitz the dog paddle out of the Otonabee River delta into Rice Lake in the summer of 2021. For Wilkes, the journey was an opportunity to reflect on colonial privilege while using an Indigenous mode of transportation. (Photo: Jenn McCallum)

Paddling the Trent-Severn Waterway: reflections on colonial privilege

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The last in a series about a 2021 paddling trip from the Otonabee River to the mouth of the Trent River at Lake Ontario.
Native plants selected in GreenUP's Water Wise Garden Starter Kits, like this wild bergamot growing at GreenUP Ecology Park, are well suited to the dry conditions experienced during a Peterborough summer. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

Five tips for a gorgeous garden that needs less work and less water

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GreenUP explains how choosing the right plants means your garden will thrive during both drought and heavy rain.

Paddling the Trent-Severn Waterway: travel tips and species observations along the Otonabee and Trent...

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The second in a series about a 2021 paddling trip from the Otonabee River to the mouth of the Trent River at Lake Ontario.
Some of the damage at the entrance to Ecology Park in Peterborough caused by the May 21, 2022 wind storm symbolizes the opportunity for healing during the month of June, which is National Indigenous History Month. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

June is a time for healing, for truth, and for coming together as a...

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From Indigenous truth and reconciliation to addressing environmental racism, the long days and bright sun shine a light on the work we need to be doing together.
In 2012, the City of Peterborough, Peterborough County and its eight townships, and the two local First Nations adopted the Greater Peterborough Area Community Sustainability Plan. Since then, the community has changed and evolved as have the definitions of sustainability and related local programs and initiatives. Sustainable Peterborough's recently approved 2021-2031 Strategic Plan focuses on local implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. (Photo courtesy of Sustainable Peterborough)

Sustainable Peterborough’s new 10-year strategic plan focuses on UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Community-based partnership has helped secure over $1 million in funding for projects to advance local sustainability.
For the first time since the pandemic began, the spring opening event at the Ecology Park Nursery on May 21, 2022 will feature many annuals and veggies grown by students in the horticultural program at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

Peterborough’s Ecology Park Nursery opens for the season on May 21

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GreenUP's Vern Bastable explains why native plants, shrubs, and trees are the best choice for your garden.
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