It’s Time to Start Thinking about GREENING your Event!
With festival season approaching, Green Calgary is looking forward to helping you green your event!
We are currently in the process of re-developing our Green Events guide, and look forward to sharing what we’ve learned. In the meantime, access the current guide and contact Kate Zago ( 403.230.1443 x 228) for direct support in greening your event, or with any related questions.
There are many ways that you can reduce the environmental impact of your event. Let us help you!
Spring Fever?Cleaning House?
Go Clean AND GREEN! with a FREE healthy homes assessment by Green Calgary Staff & Volunteers!
Green Calgary is recruiting people for its newest project – Healthy Homes Calgary. This innovative program helps families reduce their utility bills by focusing on energy and water conservation, while improving health through indoor air quality education. Program staff also address recycling and composting, as well as food choices and alternative transportation options.
Participants have been delighted by the “encouragement” and “attentiveness” of the program staff and volunteers. One participant exclaimed:
“THANK YOU for doing this! The personal aspect of it is very helpful. It is one thing to look online for information, it is totally different, and infinitely more helpful to have information tailored to your home, and to have people there to answer the exact questions that are making a change seem worrisome, difficult or intimidating.”
If you are looking to reduce your utility bills, while also improving your family’s health, the Healthy Homes Calgary program is for you.
For a home visit, please complete the on-line application form here (Please scroll to the bottom of the page). You will then be contacted by a member of the Healthy Homes Calgary Team. Please call 403 230 1443 ext 223 if you do not have access to e-mail.
Commercial Organic Waste Solutions Workshop a Success!
Last month Green Calgary held a workshop identifying the challenges, barriers and Calgary-specific solutions for organic waste disposal at the commercial level. This event was well attended and many connections were made across all sectors. If your company was not able to attend but you would like to start responsibly dealing with your organic waste please refer to our workshop summary.
My wife and I are avid reducers and recyclers and we’ve gotten our waste down to almost nothing, with the exception of pet waste. We have one cat and one dog and, believe it or not, they produce an outrageous amount of waste. We hate putting this stuff into the garbage. We figure there must be a better way but we haven’t a clue where to start. Might you offer a suggestion?
With regards,
Ruth & Allen
A:
Dear Ruth & Allen,
Calgarians, it would appear, have a real fondness for their pets. If they aren’t wining and dining them, they’re dropping them off at the local daycare to sharpen their social skills or, perhaps, at one of the growing number of pet spas in and around Calgary. There are dog-blogs and several owners have felt it necessary to create Facebook profiles for their furry little friends. But in a city with 110,242 dogs and 107,514 cats, pet waste presents real challenges, particularly with tens of millions of kilograms of pet waste entering Calgary landfills every year. Though having a pet may feel like an eco-sin to some, simply dealing with their waste differently can make an incredible difference. And, believe it or not, keeping pet waste out of the landfill isn’t all that difficult.
