Archive for the ‘water’ Category

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By: Paul Baines, Coordinator, Blue Community Drinking water, for many Peterborough residents, comes from the tap. The source of this tap water is our treasured Otonabee river. But many people […]

By Karen Halley, Former GreenUP Communications and Marketing Specialist, written in 2022 and revised March 2023 by Lili Paradi, Communications Manager  Weather at this time of year is like a […]

By Hayley Goodchild, NeighbourHOODS and Residential Programs Coordinator. Read on to learn more about rain gardens and their beauty, practicality, and uniqueness. Another column about rain gardening? You betcha! After […]

By Laura Keresztesi, Coordinator with GreenUP’s NeighbourHOOD Programs. Are you looking for a fun activity and an easy way to make a positive contribution to our community? Well, it’s time […]

By Emily Twomey, Program Assistant with Green Economy Peterborough With increasing concerns about the environmental, health, and economic costs of bottled water, GreenUP’s BlueWptbo program reduces the demand for bottled […]

By Taylor Wilkes, Facilitator with Our Living Waters, a collaborative network of organizations working together to ensure all waters in Canada are in good health by 2030. GreenUP encourages people […]

By Heather Ray, Director of Programs at GreenUP In the garden at this time of year you may notice the purple blooms of coneflowers, the stunning red spikes of wild […]