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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
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.
Guest columnist Paul Baines takes a selfie with other paddlers as they approach the mouth of the Trent River at the end of their 150-kilometre journey along the Trent-Severn Waterway. (Photo: Paul Baines)

Paddlers connect with the watershed during 150-kilometre journey along the Trent-Severn Waterway

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The first in a series about a 2021 paddling trip from the Otonabee River to the mouth of the Trent River at Lake Ontario.
A t-shirt from the 2017 Peterborough Children's Water Festival featuring "Water is Life" in three languages, including Ojibway. Although the 20th annual Peterborough Children's Water Festival returns in a virtual format for the second year in a row, the festival will continue to use traditional Indigenous teachings to help students understand their essential relationship to water and to the earth. (Photo: Karen Halley)

Peterborough-area children will learn all about water on Water Wednesdays throughout May

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This year's virtual Peterborough Children's Water Festival to reach over 2,300 Grade 2 to 5 students.
In his new book "The Book of Nature Connection", Camp Kawartha executive director and nature sommelier Jacob Rodenburg provides 70 sensory activities you can use to connect with nature, including collecting fragrant natural items to create your own "scent cocktail." (Photo: Jacob Rodenburg)

Disconnect from tech and connect to nature using the wonder of your senses

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Camp Kawartha's Jacob Rodenburg shares a few of the 70 sensory activities from his new book 'The Book of Nature Connection'.
The past two years have had a profound impact on many workplaces, activating a shift in organizational design and employee engagement. According to a recent Statistics Canada report, 80 per cent of people who worked from home due to the pandemic would like to continue with this arrangement for at least half of their work time. (Photo: Lyn Jones)

How Peterborough workplaces can make the shift into sustainability this spring

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Hybrid workplaces, Shifting Gears Challenge, and Green Economy Peterborough are three opportunities supporting renewal, sustainability, and wellness at the workplace.
Research offers solutions to make school zones safer. If that research is to have real-world benefits, it must be communicated in many formats so that many audiences can effectively understand and apply the research. That is effective knowledge mobilization. (Photo: Cara Livingston)

How sharing knowledge empowers active school travel

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Peterborough GreenUP explains the role of communication in school travel planning and research.
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.
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