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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 student-led bike club rides through Rogers Cove park in Peterborough's East City. Active school travel helps school-aged children meet the recommendation to accumulate at least 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity, which is associated with improved physical and mental health. (Photo: GreenUP)

Active school travel in Peterborough means a safer and healthier community

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Active School Travel Peterborough champions the idea that children and their families deserve secure routes to walk, bike, and roll.
Orchard stewards planting fruit trees in City of Peterborough public parks last fall with the Edible Infrastructure program that GreenUP helps lead alongside Nourish. As well as producing food for people and animals, trees help mitigate the effects of climate change. (Photo: Jessica Todd / GreenUP)

Plant a tree this fall and invest in the future

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Trees help fight the effects of climate change by cleaning and cooling the air, reducing flooding and erosion, and acting as a carbon sink.
To help encourage families to decrease waste by packing litterless lunches when kids go back to school, Peterborough GreenUP has launched a new colouring contest where a randomly chosen winner will receive a Planet Box Launch container worth $80. Details about the contest, which closes August 25, can be found on @ptbogreenup on Facebook. (Photo: Eileen Kimmett / GreenUP)

Litterless lunches can decrease waste on garbage day when the kids go back to...

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The City of Peterborough's new garbage and compost collection program coincides with the fall school season.
Wild raspberry (Rubus idaeus), called Miskomin in Anishinaabemowan, produces berries similar to the cultivated ones you find in grocery stores. They are delicious fresh or in various jams or jellies. As well, a mild tea can be brewed from the plant's leaves. (Photo: Jessica Todd / GreenUP)

The 10 principles of mindful foraging in Peterborough and the Kawarthas

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Both our urban and rural environment can sustain edible wild plants.
Peterborough resident Cass Stabler in her front yard rain garden surrounded by wild bergamot, a native plant that flowers from mid to late summer and is adored by many native pollinators. Stabler applied for and received a rain garden subsidy from the City of Peterborough in 2020, the first year the program was offered. (Photo: Hayley Goodchild / GreenUP)

Two Peterborough residents showcase the benefits of their front yard rain gardens

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Eligible property owners can receive up to $1,000 to offset the cost of installing a rain garden.
A view of the Trans Canada Trail system off of Jackson Creek Trail in Peterborough during one of this summer's smoke-filled days caused by wildfires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario. As a result of climate change, Canadian ecosystems are becoming drier and the severity and length of the wildfire season is increasing. (Photo: Lili Paradi / GreenUP)

This summer’s smoke-filled days are a call for environmental action in Peterborough

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While wildfires can be crucial to ecosystem stability, climate change is making them more severe and widespread.
Deanna VandenBroek moved into a 1940s bungalow in Peterborough with an oil furnace, a mostly uninsulated basement, and an attic with less than half of the insulation of today's building code. She now has a heat pump, hot water heater, and insulation which is up to code, and has reduced her greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent. (Photo: Clara Blakelock / GreenUP)

How two Peterborough homeowners ‘electrified’ their homes

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By choosing electric appliances when possible, Deanna VandenBroek and Lou Arbour heat their home and water with more efficiency and fewer emissions.
As part of Renaissance on Hunter in downtown Peterborough, GreenUP has collaborated with the City of Peterborough's public art program to design and install 'poetry gardens' featuring prairie grasses and native flowering plants that form a backdrop for road murals and poetry by local artists. (Photo: Lili Paradi / GreenUP)

Explore native wildflowers and prairie grasses at Renaissance on Hunter in downtown Peterborough

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In partnership with city's public art program, GreenUP designed and installed drought-resistant planter gardens surrounding road murals and poetry installations by local artists.
A greenwash march in Glasgow Bristol in the U.K. in November 2021. The term 'greenwashing' was coined in the 1980s in an essay by environmentalist Jay Westerveld, who criticized the hotel industry's "save your towel" movement that was marketed as a way for guests to help hotels conserve water while it was actually a way for hotels to reduce laundry labour expenses and made a minimal difference in water usage. (Photo: Bristol Airport Greenwashbusters via Wikipedia)

How to spot ‘greenwashing’ and make better purchasing decisions

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Some products are marketed as being more eco-friendly or sustainable than they actually are.
Families and trusted adults are encouraged to participate in Peterborough GreenUP's Summer Ride Club and are invited to the kick-off event at Quaker Foods City Square on June 29, 2023 from 2 to 6 p.m. While Summer Ride Club offers something for everyone, a trusted adult will be required to sign up participants for an online community, where they can have a chance to win prizes. (Photo: Jessica Todd / GreenUP)

Peterborough GreenUP’s Summer Ride Club invites youth to cruise into summer with nine weeks...

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Kick-off event Thursday afternoon at Quaker Foods City Square features bike playgrounds, bike maintenance and helmet fitting tips, bike safety check-ups, and more.
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