[Green Communities News] GCNews #573
CHIP TELLS THE TRUTH. Chip Olver, a GCC Board member and
Banff municipal councillor, is one of 200 Canadians chosen to
train with Al Gore to present
An Inconvenient Truth.
Chip trains in Montreal in April, then commits as a volunteer to
deliver eight presentations over the next year. Three presentations
are already lined up, she reports.
CONSERVATION FAIRS. Several Green
Communities received small (up to $5K) grants to help hold Community
Conservation Fairs before 31 March. Participants, funded by the
Ontario government’s Community
Conservation Initiative, include Durham SustainAbility, Greening Nipissing, and
St. Catharines
Climate Action Now. Peterborough Green-Up organizes
an Energy Conservation Fair for Business, on 20 March.
EARTH WALK. Green Communities are
promoting neighbourhood walkabouts as a great way to celebrate Earth Hour, 29 March. In a
recent Toronto
Star article, Jacky
Kennedy and Mandy Johnson
of GCC’s Canada Walks
program said Earth Hour is the perfect time to rediscover our
neighbourhoods and what is within walking distance. We need to leave
home, they said, to get a “sense of being part of something big …
something that our city is involved in, our country is involved in,
the world is involved in.”
