Mark the date! BurlingtonGreen in partnership with the City of Burlington will be hosting this year's Community Clean Up Green Up event.

This annual city wide event provides an important (and fun!) opportunity for citizens, schools, churches, businesses and groups to come together and take pride in our City by cleaning it up.

Schools and Businesses are invited to participate during the week of April 16-20,(if preferred) and EVERYONE is encouraged to participate on Saturday, April 21 from 9:00 am to noon.

A special thank you celebration including a FREE BBQ will take place from 12:30 to 2:30 pm at City Hall's Civic Square.

Volunteer Opportunities: our event planning team welcomes volunteer support. If you would like to learn more about how you can get involved in the planning of this event please contact Amy at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Sponsorship Opportunities: this city wide event is a great opportunity for you to showcase your group, agency or business. We have a range of sponsorship opportunities for you to choose from. To learn more, please contact Amy at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Stay tuned for more event details. For now, to learn about the tremendous efforts and results of last years Community Clean-Up Green-Up Day, click here.

Halton Waldorf School was one of the nearly 800 entries in the Recycling Council of Ontario WFLC and one of the 30 winners ~ the only Burlington school in Ontario !

Collectively 200,000 students from 62 Ontario school boards diverted 25 tonnes of lunch waste from entering landfills – roughly the weight of 2 school buses!

Congratulations – Students from class 4 are featured in the RCO media release here.

Halton Waldorf School encourages parents and students from ALL Burlington schools to pack zero waste lunches every day by using reusable bottles & food containers.

Thanks to the RCO and their partners, Metro and Tetra Pak Inc. fifty students have won an educational experience. To view the winners click here.

Photo: Grade 4 students show school lunch waste from one day's lunch waste collected from Kindergarten to Grade 8.

Back by popular demand, BurlingtonGreen in partnership with the Burlington Central Library are pleased to present the 2012 Eco-Film festival!

Watch ~ Learn & Take action as we present 5 award-winning documentaries about important environmental issues that threaten the health of our planet.

Following each film presentation, our events will each include an important ACTION component where the audience can learn ways they can tackle the issue at the local level.

• All films will be shown at Central Library (2331 New Street, Burlington) and include $5 admission at the door.
• Doors open at 6:30 with films beginning promptly at 7:00 pm.
• Please help us to host a green event - bring your own mug for a complimentary refreshment. Carpool/public transit if you can please.
• The eco-fillm festival offers great SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES! To learn more please contact Festival Co-ordinator, Amy Schnurr at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 905-466-2171

Mark the dates! Titles and Trailers below.....(festival poster will be available for download soon)

*March 21: In honour of of World Water Day we present: White Water, Black Gold - an investigative point-of-view documentary that follows David Lavallee on his three-year journey across western Canada in search of answers about the activities of the world's thirstiest oil industry:the Tarsands.

BurlingtonGreen would like to thank Heron Instruments for sponsoring this event.

In honour of World Water Day, BurlingtonGreen will be presenting: White Water, Black Gold on March 21st to kick-off our 2012 eco-film festival. You can learn more about this great event here.

What is World Water Day?

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

 Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater and 2012 focuses on Water and FOOD.

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres. Learn more about this important issue by checking out this video and World Water Day website here.

Click here to view our winter issue:

• A Look Back at 2011
• Youth in Action
• President's Thanks
• Central Park Community Garden Project
• Go Local Food Network News
• Connor's Corner
• ...and more.