Green Calgary will be on-site all weekend at the upcoming Market Collective to provide you with the tools, education and inspiration you need to lead a greener life here in Calgary!
MARKET COLLECTIVE takes place at 148 10th St. NW (Kensington- the old Anthill Fabrics building) on Saturday June 19th from 10am-6pm and Sunday June 20th from 11am-5pm. Admission is $2 or a food bank donation.
Come visit Green Calgary’s upstairs ‘Green Room’. Be inspired, learn about backyard composting, vermi-composting (worms eat our garbage!) and make an artistic commitment to an environmental action that you will take.
Watch Artists at Work for Water Conservation in Green Calgary’s EcoStore from June 22 to July 3! Rain Barrels as Canvasses, June 22nd-July 3rd, EcoStore
Artists and aspiring artists will be signing up at this weekend’s Market Collective event for a chance to share their talents and promote water conservation at our upcoming Rain Barrels as Canvasses week. This creative approach to conservation will run from June 22nd to July 3rd and will feature local artists in action painting on rain barrels. Come down to the store to watch artists as they create, get inspired, and pick up a plain barrel of your own to take home and decorate!
Summer Volunteer Opportunities
Over the summer, Green Calgary will be hosting booths at a number of events, continuing to visit Calgarians in their homes to help them reduce waste and energy and run healthier households, and continuing to provide service with a smile in our EcoStore. As such, there are plenty of ways to help us out at the moment!
We look to fill EcoStore shifts on an ongoing basis, and especially need help from Tuesdays-Fridays from 10am-5pm. If you’d like to commit to one regular shift per week, please contact Heather or 403-230-1443 x232. A training will be held on Wed. July 7, 6-7:30. Please RSVP to Heather if you're interested in joining us!
We’ll be attending the Calgary Stampede (July 9-18) & the Calgary Folk Festival (July 22-25) so if this appeals, see below for shift times and details.
For volunteers with daytime hours available who are looking to engage in a deep way with Green Calgary and commit to a few regular daytime, weekday shifts per month, we are recruiting new volunteers for our Healthy Homes program. Training will be held Tuesday, July 20thfrom 5:00-6:30pm at Green Calgary's office at 809 4th Ave SW. Please RSVP to Heather or 403-230-1443 x232 if you're interested in joining us!
On another front, The Arusha Centre has let us know that the Bow River Flow, Calgary's human powered transportation event is looking for volunteers. This event takes place on August 22, 2010. Roles include: set up/take down, site security, kids' zone, info/lost and found tent, roving bike route ambassadors, musician and artist support, and more! Various shifts are available. Opportunities are also available with our Planning Committee. Call to get involved: 403-270-3200 or email
Green Calgary's Commercial Environmental Services program has a number of renewing sponsors we would like to share with you. We really appreciate their support and couldn’t continue our programs and work without them.
Ask Ashley:
Cheese, Louise!
Q:
Dear Ashley, I recently saw a Kraft commercial stating that Kraft Cracker Barrel cheese was made from Canadian milk and was therefore free of growth hormones and antibiotics. If this is true, what makes organic cheese different from regular cheese? Thanks,
Dawn
A:
Hello Dawn,
Canadian per capita dairy consumption has increased steadily over time, with the average person drinking 90 litres of milk and cream and eating 11 kilograms of cheese each year. Thankfully, though, while Americans have been fighting to rid their milk of Monsanto’s bovine growth hormone (rBGH), it has never been approved for use in Canada. This much is true. But where things become a bit more muddled is when we begin to talk about antibiotic use, animal welfare, feed quality and the treatment of milk before it appears on the shelf.
