INITIATIVES
RAISING AWARENESS
Issues of concern that we have advocated for (and in some cases, continue to) are:
- Community supported agriculture & local organic food
- GMO food awareness and labelling advocacy
- Zero waste, reduced packaging & single use plastic
- What we all can do to reduce single use plastics
- Toxicity of dryer sheets and fabric softeners
- Keeping roadsides natural and unmowed to attract pollinators
- Garlic mustard control and management
- Introduction to industrial hemp growing
- Benefits of growing industrial hemp worth a try? industrial hemp farming
- Pesticide bylaws
- Ban incineration
- Planning for sustainability – triple bottom line
- Clean air bylaw
- Tree bylaws
- Sustainable development
- Higher, more energy efficient building standards
- Investing in green technology & renewable energy
- Addressing waste management in planning stage of multi use building design
- Greenhouse gas emissions – local Kyoto
Our campaigns have included:
Pesticides & GMOs, a review of the science
Community outreach
Eat your weeds
