On Saturday, May 1st, Green Calgary hosted community rain barrel sales in Anderson, Brentwood and Richmond. The snow melted just in time and Green Calgary staff and volunteers were kept busy educating visitors about water conservation and rain barrel use and set-up.
Over 200 people joined Green Calgary at The Uptown Stage & Screen on Thursday, April 22nd to celebrate Earth Day’s 40th year.
The event was inspiring, celebratory and successful, with over 200 attendees, 95% local & organic food, and a screening of the movie Earth Days, which paid tribute to the history of the environmental movement thus far.
Healthy Homes Calgary is a 2010 Emerald Award Finalist!!!
Green Calgary’s Healthy Homes program has been nominated for the prestigious Emerald Award! The award showcases environmental leadership and sets the stage for environmental excellence in our province. Each year the Alberta Emerald Foundation receives over 100 nominations in a variety of categories and Healthy Homes has been nominated, along with three others, in the not-for-profit category. The awards take place on Thursday, June 10, so check back to see if the Healthy Homes program is a winner.
Do you have a passion for the environment, people, and social enterprise? Are you that go-to “greenie” who is always eager to share eco hints with friends, family, and colleagues? Here’s your chance to get paid for it!
Green Calgary seeks to fill one permanent part-time position on the EcoStore Team. The compensation for this position is $14 per hour for a 25-30 hour work week.
"What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet" - David Suzuki
Permaculture is a system for designing sustainable human habitat.
In a world of fluctuating food and energy costs, permaculture design offers a positive sustainable way forward.
If you are interested in permaculture, but not sure where to start, this 16-hour course will offer information and hands-on experience and cover the basics of permaculture design. Whether your interest is gardening, farming, planning, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, business or green lifestyles, the application of permaculture principles empowers you to make a positive contribution towards a sustainable future.
When you buy your products from small local businesses, you get to know where those products are coming from, the conditions in which they were made, and the people who make them. You strengthen your own local economy, help to tighten the community, and reduce impact on the environment. The products don’t have long distances to travel between producer and consumer, so there aren’t large amounts of greenhouse gases being emitted. Green Calgary EcoStore proudly supports small businesses in
Calgary and area, such as The Barrelman Inc., an eco-wise business created and operated by Dirk and Nanja Struck which makes good (re)use of food-grade plastic barrels by retrofitting them into rain barrels.
Congratulations to Office Manager Jessica Duchin on the birth of her son, Finn, and likewise to Executive Director Natalie Odd on the birth of her son, Sebastian, on April 27th. Finn entered the world with crazy blond hair, and Sebastian with dark. Both boys have green sensibilities.
New Faces
Green Calgary is pleased to introduce:
Gina Staley. Program Liaison and Assessor, Commercial Environmental Services Lynn Meadows, Interim Office Manager
Every drop is sacred. Every drop is great. (Encore)
Q:
I have a relatively new roof and the usual granular material in runoff is obvious. That settles out, of course, but it makes me wonder about other things added after the rain lands. Are chemicals from roofing carried into rain barrels collecting rain water? I would appreciate any information you can give me.
