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By Lindsay Stroud, GreenUP Transportation & Urban Design Manager “Today, there are two brand new bike riders in the City of Peterborough!” Announces Jamie Akiyama, The Coordinator of the Pedal Power Program. She has just returned from St. Catherine Catholic Elementary School where she was helping new riders find their balance on two wheels. At […]

By Kristen LaRocque, GreenUP Store & Resource Centre Coordinator  You have likely heard about Canada’s waste challenges and the environmental plague of plastics. One of the main culprits is single-use, plastic water bottles, the majority of which do not get recycled, but rather end up in landfills, or worse, in parks, rivers, and forests. The […]

by Kortney Dunsby, GreenUP NeighbourPLAN Coordinator The goal of GreenUP’s NeighbourPLAN program is to support residents in reimagining public spaces in three Peterborough neighbourhoods. NeighbourPLAN brings residents together to connect, imagine, and design by hosting a wide range of engagement activities using a collaborative process called, co-design. As part of NeighbourPLAN, residents of Peterborough’s Jackson […]

By Heather Ray, GreenUP Water Programs Manager This past week, over 1,800 children descended on the Riverview Park & Zoo for the Peterborough Children’s Water Festival (PCWF)! Last year, the PCWF, announced the dream of adding an extra day, for a total of three days of hands-on water education. We are happy to say that […]

How to promote pollinators and work with the natural water conditions of your yard to create thriving gardens by Dawn Pond, GreenUP Downtown Vibrancy Project Coordinator  Gardening is the act of curating a natural space by manipulating and influencing living things to realize our ecological design dreams; it becomes beautiful art when done with grace […]

By Karen Halley, GreenUP Communications & Marketing Specialist For many of us, May is a month of rejuvenation, revived energy, awakening, and for GreenUP, it’s also a month full of green events! As the natural world renews and refreshes with new leaves and blooms, so do we, with new vitality for a season of warmth, […]

By Jaime Akiyama, GreenUP Transportation & Urban Design Coordinator and Active and Safe Routes to School Chair When kids become comfortable using transit at a young age, it allows them to be life-long users. Active and Safe Routes to School Peterborough has a fleet of transit programs that support getting kids on public transit. These […]

By Karen Halley, GreenUP Communications & Marketing Specialist We waited long enough for it’s arrival and now that it’s here, let’s hope the snow is here to stay, at least for a while! While the snow makes the landscape look lovely this time of year, and many winter enthusiasts are happy to finally be hitting […]

By Kristen LaRocque, GreenUP Store & Resource Coordinator Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. It’s a day that is often considered to be just another over-consumptive holiday and an opportunity for retailers to increase sales. The seemingly obligatory chocolate, cards, and flowers soon end up in the landfill alongside the waste of Christmas. That being said […]

by Karen Halley, GreenUP Communications & Marketing Specialist Household waste can increase more than 25% over the holidays. The majority of nearly half-a-million tonnes of holiday waste that goes to Canadian landfills each year is made up of discarded gift-wrapping and shopping bags. In Peterborough, and many other municipalities, plastic and foil wrapping paper, bubble […]