Delegation to Council–Promoting the 3 R’s

September 25, 2007
Dear Chair and members of Council,
In an effort to create as many opportunities as possible to keep materials from the dump, Tweed Green-Up has another suggestion – the Curbside Free-For-All. This initiative would only work in town where I understand garbage is picked up on Fridays. In short, the idea would be [...]

Presentation in Tweed

 
Film Night
FREE EVENT
St. John’s United Church
&

Present

The Power of Community:
 
How Cuba Survived
Peak Oil

 
 
From the streets of Cuba comes a powerful film with a promising message for achieving community and environmental sustainability.  After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba [...]

Tweed Green-Up Partners with the Gateway Community Health Centre to Relay a Green Message!!

Next time you’re are at the Gateway Health Centre look for our announcement about the new Tweed reusable shopping bags on the waiting room monitor!
Did you know?
In Canada, 10 to 15 billion bags are used annually, or about one bag per day for every Canadian man, woman, and child. If every shopper [...]

Where do they stand?

On October 10 we go to the polls in Ontario to elect a new provincial government. In honour of the occasion, we have drafted a series of five questions for our local candidates, some dealing with dealing with very specific issues and others more general in the hope of learning more about where they stand.
We [...]

Eat Local

Eating locally produced food wherever, whenever, possible reduces the carbon footprint of your food, supports our local producers, and thus our community as a whole.
And of course, when you buy at the farmgate or the market, you know  a whole lot more about the food you’re bringing home than you do about the shrink-wrapped food [...]