By: Natalie Stephenson, Director of Programs, GreenUP This week in Peterborough, GreenUP’s Summer Ride Club is set to get rolling! Join us for the Summer Ride Club Kick-Off, a drop-in cycling celebration at Quaker Foods City Square on June 29th from 2pm to 6pm. Everyone is invited to join us at the Kick-Off. Come ride […]

By: Clara Blakelock, Program Manager, Home Energy You’re ready to start tackling your home’s energy emissions. Where is the best place to start? The building envelope, or as the GreenUP Home Energy team likes to call it, the ‘skin’ of your home! The building envelope is what divides the inside of the home from the […]

By: Doors Open Peterborough, Shifting Gears GreenUP Like Shifting Gears, GreenUP’s annual commuter challenge, Doors Open Peterborough is encouraging us to leave our cars at home this year and explore Peterborough’s heritage and cultural landmarks on foot or by bicycle. By including the theme “transportation”, Doors Open has curated a unique set of experiences that […]

By: Lili Paradi, GreenUP/Sacred Water Circle; Taylor Wilkes, Community Member “How do you take time to honour water?” For six Peterborough youth, the answer was to organize an opportunity to learn about water from an Anishinaabeg perspective. Here in Michi Saagiig territory, Elder Dorothy Taylor from Curve Lake First Nation and the Sacred Water Circle […]

By: Lili Paradi, Communications Manager, GreenUP Looking up on a rainy day, you may see a blanket of grey enveloping Peterborough. From a cloud, a single raindrop can travel for kilometres before ending up somewhere familiar like our tap, garden hose, or laundry machine. While the water cycle may be something that we learned at […]

By: Ashley Burnie, Program Coordinator, GreenUP After a long Canadian winter and a rainy spring season, it can be difficult for individuals to get back outside, let alone start biking to work. Local businesses are setting the bar for business sustainability by taking part in the Shifting Gears May Challenge and doing business by bike […]

By: Vern Bastable, Director of Ecology Park and Landscape Programs Looking outside my window, the late winter browns have started changing to early spring greens. To me the waking of spring signals the opening of GreenUP Ecology Park’s Native Plant and Tree Nursery.  Our team looks forward to welcoming people of all ages across the […]

By: Jackie Donaldson, Program Coordinator, Green Economy Peterborough Spring celebrations are in full swing for Peterborough and the Kawarthas, and the business community is busy celebrating. On May 4th, Green Economy Peterborough hosted its 2nd annual “Leadership in Sustainability Awards”. This event recognized local organizations for their contribution towards a greener community. Representing several sectors […]

By: Clara Blakelock, Program Manager & Registered Energy Advisor, GreenUP Thousands of Peterborough homes will need to reduce emissions by 50% or more to meet 2030 climate targets. With the heating season almost at a close, it’s a good time to take stock of your home’s energy use. How much electricity did you use over […]

By: Hayley Goodchild, Program Coordinator Since 2020, eligible homeowners in Peterborough have installed 155 square metres of rain gardens with support from GreenUP and the City of Peterborough’s Rain Garden Subsidy program. Together, these gardens can collect and return about 380 cubic metres of runoff into the ground per year, a volume that would fill […]