Archive for the ‘water’ Category

By Dawn Pond, GreenUP’s Downtown Vibrancy Project and Depave Paradise Program Coordinator This interview is part of the Jiimaan’ndewengadnong project. These oral histories are being shared and celebrated. The stories in this article have been adapted, with permission, from recorded conservations. There will be audio clips available on this webpage and in the Jiimaan’ndewengadnong park […]

By Dawn Pond, GreenUP’s Downtown Vibrancy Project and Depave Paradise Program Coordinator This interview is part of the Jiimaan’ndewengadnong project. These oral histories are being shared and celebrated. The stories in this article have been adapted, with permission, from recorded conservations. There will be audio clips available on this webpage and in the Jiimaan’ndewengadnong park through phone numbers on […]

A Pocket Park Project Intertwined with Nature, Culture, and Anishinaabe Tales of the Canoe. By Dawn Pond, GreenUP’s Downtown Vibrancy Project and Depave Paradise Program Coordinator The Downtown Vibrancy Project is now in its second year and this year we hosted many design sessions with local residents, First Nations communities, and local business. We discussed […]

By Dawn Pond, GreenUP’s Downtown Vibrancy Project and Depave Paradise Program Coordinator GreenUP’s Depave Paradise Program has been busy this summer creating a new garden at Euphoria Wellness Spa in partnership with the Downtown Vibrancy Project. We are not yet winding down for winter, though. We have another exciting Depave Paradise project coming up this […]

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 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 Heather Ray, GreenUP Water Programs Manager Many of us, myself included, have likely spent too much time binge watching Netflix through the cold days of winter (no judgement). Now that spring has finally arrived it is hard to ignore the desire to start spending more time outside. Popular spring activities such as getting an […]

By Jenn McCallum The season for mowing lawns is still ahead of us, but now is a great time to start thinking about how we use and maintain our yards. Specifically, let’s talk about something that we all know, and may, or may not love – grass. Whether you love mowing the lawn or would […]

By Heather Ray, GreenUP Water Programs Manager March 22, 2019 was World Water Day, a day aimed at advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 6: ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. The 2019 theme for World Water day was, Leaving no one behind. Many people around the world, and […]