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Violet Davenport is our contest winner!
We are happy to announce the winner of our 2025 contest for the best student environmental cartoon. The $100 prize goes to the very talented Violet Davenport, age 10, of Stratford Middle Years School. Violet is an artist who speaks for her generation: her drawing is...
Looking for good ideas on home food gardening!
You'll remember our garden photo contest last fall, for gardeners who rent their homes. Chef Jude won with the garden below. He didn't have a problem with the City, and I think he's doing it again this year, but it seems that having a food garden facing on to the...
Words of wisdom from the robins
If you were lucky enough to visit the Canadian Tire garden centre in Stratford last week, you might have seen this:We live in a community where people respect nature. The nest sat there for weeks. Staff watched over them, but there was no fence, no screen to protect...
Crosswinds Farm Market
They've only been here since the first of June. --in the Stratford mall parking lot, just next to the highway. It's a bit hidden by the trees, but worth the trip. Really nice family, polite kids, great veg. We need more contact with our local farmers! (and they do...
More on induction cooking
Better choice in induction stoves (from Katheryn Hayhoe's newsletter) Induction stoves are faster and much safer: but for a long time they were more expensive, and for those of us in North America, we often needed an electrician to come in and wire an outlet for 240...
Students speak out at City Council
Stratford and District Secondary School students were successful in 2020, when they participated at City Hall to ask for the declaration of a climate emergency. They've been politically active since that time, and were back last week with some pretty tough words for...
Our Environmental Legacy in Ontario: Your Role in the Snap Election
Webinar on February 10, 2025This free webinar will be hosted by Betty Plewes of Climate Legacy and Lesley Rudy of Ontario Nature. The focus is the Ontario election on February 27, 2025. Specifically, and what groups and individuals can do to make nature a priority of...
Industrial, commercial, and institutional recycling will change in Stratford
Although we are making progress in other areas, recycling industrial, commerical and institutional waste (IC&I) is still presents problems. The IC&I sector is responsible for a substantial amount of waste in Ontario, contributing approximately 60% of the total...
PCSH STUDENT CARTOON CONTEST
Everybody likes cartoons. You can make a really strong point with a drawing, and you don't have to be a great artist to do it. This year Perth County Sustainability will offer a $100 prize for a hand-drawn student cartoon dealing with climate change and...
How will the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program benefit low-income households?
See Also: Canada Green Buildings Strategy The Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program (CGHAP) will significantly benefit low-income households in several ways: No-cost home retrofits: CGHAP will provide free energy-efficient upgrades to low-to-median-income...