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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
Ennismore's Kawartha Wildlife Centre closed in June 2024 after it failed to meet a $200,000 fundraising goal to support its operations. While in the care of the centre in 2022, this juvenile osprey suffering from a parasitic infection was supported by a hand-fed diet of whole prey fresh fish donated by community members. (Photo: Kawartha Wildlife Centre)

Tips on how to help wildlife after the recent permanent closure of Kawartha Wildlife...

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Charitable organization that cared for more than 3,000 animals over six years was forced to close in June due to a lack of funding.
At Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School in Peterborough, over 25 students and staff participated in soil preparation on June 13, 2024 for a GreenUP project to transform a 100-square-metre patch of lawn grass into a dense pocket of biodiversity by moving compost and mulch to enrich the area where a "little forest" will be planted in the fall. (Photo: GreenUP)

GreenUP is leading the way with transformative green infrastructure projects in Peterborough

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New initiatives supported by Green Communities Canada's Living Cities Canada Fund include greening projects with two local schools and One City's Trinity Centre.
GreenUP volunteer Alero drops off her used toothpaste tubes at the hard-to-recycle station at the Peterborough GreenUP Store and Resource Centre in downtown Peterborough. Along with oral care waste and packaging, you can drop off flexible coffee bags, air and home care recycling, and razors and shaving items. The items will be shipped to Terracycle to be diverted from landfills and recycled into raw material. (Photo: Eileen Kimmett / GreenUP)

Peterborough GreenUP can help keep your hard-to-recycle items from going to the landfill

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Environmental organization collects items like toothpaste tubes and razors and sends them to Terracycle to be turned into raw materials.
Peterborough GreenUP's Summer Ride Club is a self-directed program that encourages families to cycle together with a series of challenges each week during the summer, and offers a grand prize for those who participate. (Photo: Jessica Todd / GreenUP)

Peterborough GreenUP’s Summer Ride Club program helps get families cycling together

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Official kick-off is at the New Canadians Centre's 45th Anniversary Block Party on June 28.
GreenUP staff and volunteers from the Trent Learning Garden constructed Ecology Park's first air prune bed in spring 2024. This structure will be used to propagate tap-rooted trees and shrubs. (Hayley Goodchild / GreenUP)

Peterborough’s Ecology Park returns to its roots with new plant propagation initiative

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GreenUP staff are using the 'propagation station' to experiment with growing nursery stock using minimal energy and irrigation.
Jadyn Gay, Becky Waldman, and Mark Stewart of the Peterborough Public Library celebrate the library's new electric delivery van, the first fully electric vehicle in the City of Peterborough's fleet. The library will use the van for outreach events and to move materials between library kiosk locations and the new library branch opening at the Miskin Law Community Complex at Morrow Park. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

How the Peterborough Public Library is helping to rewrite the climate change story

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Library staff formed a 'green team', grew a pollinator garden, host a community seed exchange, operate a book bike and electric delivery van, and more.
As part of Peterborough GreenUP's first annual Shifting Gears challenge in April 2004, "Paddling Puppeteers" Glen Caradus and Donald Fraser are interviewed by CHEX News Watch in 2004 to encourage the community to move towards more sustainable modes of transportation. (Photo: GreenUP)

Peterborough GreenUP celebrates 20 years of sustainable transportation with Shifting Gears

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For two decades, annual May Challenge has encouraged residents to choose walking, biking, public transit, or telecommuting over solo car rides.
Emily and Norm Lamothe of Cavan's Woodleigh Farms received the "Rookie of the Year" award at Green Economy Peterborough's third annual Leadership in Sustainability Awards on May 16, 2024. Also pictured are Jackie Donaldson (left) of Green Economy Peterborough and Karen Lynch of Peterborough County. (Photo: Natalie Stephenson / GreenUP)

Green Economy Peterborough celebrates local businesses for championing sustainability

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Annual Leadership in Sustainability Awards recognize Woodleigh Farms, Engage Engineering, Charlotte Products, Trent Health in Motion, Lake Edge Cottages, and more.
Elder Dorothy Taylor of Curve Lake First Nation leads a sacred water teaching at the Peterborough Children's Water Festival in 2023. (Photo: Lili Paradi)

Peterborough Children’s Water Festival returns to Riverview Park and Zoo on May 28 and...

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22nd anniversary of the educational festival will ask the questions 'How does water take care of me?' and 'How do I take care of water?'
Young red oak saplings in their first year of growth at GreenUP's Ecology Park Native Plant & Tree Nursery. Red oak leaves, stems, and acorns are a food source for various mammals such as deer and squirrels and bird species such as woodpeckers. You can give young trees a forever home by visiting the Ecology Park Native Plant & Tree Nursery when it opens for the season on May 18, 2024. (Photo: Hayley Goodchild / GreenUP)

The journey from seed to flourishing tree takes time, effort, and resources

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Give a young tree its forever home when Peterborough GreenUP's Ecology Park Native Plant & Tree Nursery opens for the season on May 18.
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