Calling all 7th and 8th graders!
Write a maximum 700 word story or essay about “how climate change is affecting you and your community,” and send by March 3 to Ontario Nature Youth Writing Contest and you could win cool prizes.
Visit Ontario Nature for details. Send a copy to tweedgreenup@yahoo.ca and we’ll post [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 16, 2008
Tip of the Week: Essay Contest
February 16, 2008
Our First Year
Tweed Green-Up Archive of Accomplishments
February 2007 – February 2008
February 13, 2007
Inaugural Meeting
April 1, 2007
Launched Tweed Green-Up blog.
April 18, 2007
Presented programs for Earth Day at S.H. Conner Public School and St. Carthaghs Elementary School.
May 1, 2007
Partnered with Eastminster United Church in Bellville to present the program, Climate Change: Despair and Empowerment with Australian environmental [...]
February 8, 2008
Sustainable Living Symposium
3rd Annual Sustainable Living Symposium, March 29, all day, Loyalist College, Belleville (for more information see www.quintesustainability.ca or www.harvesthastings.ca).
For more Green Events, check out this page.
February 5, 2008
A meal at the world dinner table; Learning to eat well with low energy costs
By LACY MEEKS
The Tweed News
Close to 40 people gathered at St. John’s United Church in Tweed on Saturday, January 26th for a “Meal at the World dinner table.” The evening included a potluck dinner with dishes prepared from recipes around the world. Members of Tweed Green-up and St. John’s United Church in Tweed worked together [...]
February 4, 2008
Tip of the Week: Shower with a Friend!
That 70s advice is still true: “Save water – shower with a friend!” You’ll save energy, greenhouse gases and money too. Limiting showers to 5 minutes can save around $500 a year for a family of four!
February 3, 2008
Curbside Free-for-All Follow-up
In September, Denice Wilkins of Tweed Green-Up wrote to the Tweed Council to propose a Curbside Free-for-All (see that submission here), to facilitate the transfer of unwanted usable items to good homes instead of landfill. The proposal is winding its way through Municipal Government, and below is her follow-up submission to the Infrastructure Committee. Watch [...]
