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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
Before schools were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Grade 8 students at Monsignor O'Donaghue Catholic Elementary School showed off a newly installed water bottle refill station at the school, part of a student-led project called "CAPS off Water", an acronym representing the conservation, awareness, protection, and stewardship of water. GreenUP has awarded the students its School Engagement Award for their work on the project. Pictured from left to right: Shannon Elliott, Molly Sharman, Jacob Colocci, John Velasquez, Cooper Cook, and Noah Bowler. (Photo: GreenUP)

Celebrate these Peterborough students who led a water conservation project at their school

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Monsignor O'Donaghue grade 8 students inspired after watching documentary on plastic pollution in the world's oceans.
Blitz the poodle mix belongs to Jenn McCallum, GreenUP's water programs coordinator. They've been enjoying many walks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Jenn has shaved down her hair so any ticks and their bites are more noticeable. "We check her for ticks after walks and we carry a tick remover with us during walks. For ourselves, we wear closed-toed shoes and pants while we are out to avoid tick bites.”

How to protect yourself and your pets from Lyme disease-causing ticks

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Tips on preventing tick bites and checking for ticks and removing them.
A rain garden on Welsh Street in Peterborough. The native shrubs and trees in the garden have deep-growing roots that absorb the rain and provide habitat for pollinators. Rain gardens are designed with both an inlet and an outlet, often using stone such as pea gravel or river stone. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

Add a rain garden to your property with help from the City of Peterborough...

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New Rain Garden Subsidy Program offers qualifying residents up to $500, with GreenUP providing online workshops,
Part of the NeighbourPLAN vision for the Downtown Jackson Creek neighbourhood, this illustration shows what Rubidge Street at Hunter Street could look like with a curb bump-out, buffered bike lane, and dedicated parking. All of these components fit into the currently paved roadway by reducing the drive lanes. (Rendering: Basterfield & Associates Inc. Landscape Architects)

Resident-centred planning for Peterborough neighbourhoods continues during COVID-19

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GreenUP's NeighbourPLAN program releases a portrait of Talwood and a vision for Downtown Jackson Creek.
This bud is from a butternut tree. A cousin of the walnut, the butternut tree has long and graceful compound leaves and produces a crop of nuts in the fall. Intentional planning is important when planting a butternut, because toxins from its roots will affect many other plants, like vegetables, evergreens, and fruit trees. Butternuts are now endangered in Ontario due to butternut canker, so planting these trees will increase the chances of finding some that are resistant to the disease. Butternut trees can be tapped like maple trees to collect sap and make sweet syrup. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

How to choose the best trees for your yard this planting season

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Fun planning activities include taking a walk through your neighbourhood for tree 'window shopping'.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and this week is also National Volunteer Week. In 2019, volunteers with Peterborough GreenUP's Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood program planted more than 1,200 square metres of gardens, including native species of plants that have a low-water need. (Photo: GreenUP)

Celebrating Canada’s volunteers and Earth Day during COVID-19

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Volunteers have stepped up even more during the pandemic, and you can still help the environment even without community clean-ups.
Supporting wild pollinators in your yard can be easy and fun. Cavity-dwelling native bees use hollow stems as nesting sites in the spring. You can buy or build a bee house like this one made by Three Sisters Natural Landscapes. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

Invite pollinators to your garden this spring

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How to find and support wild bees and plant a pollinator-friendly garden.
In this week's GreenUP column, Tyler Scott, chef and co-owner of Rare in downtown Peterborough, provides some tips on how to make the best use of ingredients in your kitchen at home. Here he's pictured retrieving some striploin from his smoker. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rare and a number of other local restaurants have established safe food delivery and takeout options. (Photo: Rare / Facebook)

Zero waste grocery and meal planning during COVID-19

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Tips and tricks for extending your grocery shopping and reducing food waste.
Shifting Gears is an annual spring program that challenges people to choose more active and sustainable forms of transportation when commuting to work, school, or out in the community. This spring, the Shifting Gears team will provide supports to employers, employees, and community members as we all shift how we work, travel, play, and live to combat COVID-19. While working from home, Lindsay Stroud and other staff from GreenUP are using the group instant messaging tool Slack for collaboration. (Photo: GreenUP)

GreenUP’s annual Shifting Gears transportation challenge is shifting gears during COVID-19

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This year's program aims to provide tools, tips, and conversations for sheltering at home,
At the Depave site at 100 Water Street in downtown Peterborough, Anishinaabe elder Dorothy Taylor of the Curve Lake First Nation explains the significance of the materials she uses to perform water ceremony to students from St. Anne's Catholic Elementary School. In partnership with GreenUP's Wonders of Water program, the students are transforming a flood-prone corner of their school yard into a rain garden. They also took a tour of the local watershed, tracing Jackson Creek from its headwaters at Loggerhead Marsh to its outflow at the Otonabee River, near the Depave site. (Photo: GreenUP)

Peterborough students take local action for World Water Day

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Grade 6 and 7 students who are creating a rain garden at their school also take a tour of Peterborough's local watershed.
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