2012 Grow Learn & Eat Healthy Speaker Series

Click HERE to download our 2012 Grow Learn & Eat Healthy Speaker Series poster

~ Crops that Wow with Steven Biggs - Thursday, May 17^th, 7pm, Centennial Hall, Central Library - FREE

If your veggie garden space is limited, why grow what you can easily buy? Find out how to paint the supper table with a surprising array of coloured veg. Then add an exotic touch with intercultural crops treats that are hard to find at the supermarket. If you grow veg or want to grow veg, but want to be a bit different, this talk is for you. Register HERE and enter to win!

~ Edible Healthy Gardens with Jodi Vanderhayden -Tuesday, June 12, 7pm, Centennial Hall, Central Library -FREE

Achieve good health and well being while in your garden this year by including beneficial vegetables and herbs. Jody is a Horticulturist Royal Botanical Gardens who manages the Veggie Village demonstration gardens. Register HERE and enter to win!

~ Garden Harvest Recipes with Michelle Gatien - Tuesday, July 31st, 7pm, St. Christopher’s Church kitchen (TBC) Registration will open soon. -$5 per person (payment at the door or by paypal when you register)

Need to know what to do with all those cukes and tomatoes? Join us in the kitchen to explore seasonal recipes and preserves with ingredients straight out of your garden. Register HERE and enter to win!

~ Extending the Growing Season with Linda Crago - Tuesday, September 11^th, 7pm, Centennial Hall, Central Library-FREE

Tree and Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farmer, Linda shares her knowledge, seed saving techniques, favourite harvest recipes and preserving methods. Register HERE and enter to win!

LET US APPLAUD YOUR EFFORTS ... Celebrating local achievements to support a better environment are important to BurlingtonGreen.  We recognize that these successes help inspire others to take action!

To support this belief, BurlingtonGreen introduced the city's first Eco-Award Celebration where we honoured the valued work of Burlington individuals, groups, youth and businesses who are all taking action to help the environment locally. Singer, song writer and Juno award winning Sarah Harmer inspired the audience with both her music and her keynote presentation about the important efforts she and her team at PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Lands) are doing to protect the beautiful Mount Nemo lands on the Niagara Escarpment.

Our next Eco-Award Celebration event is tentatively planned for October, 2012.

Stay tuned for your opportunity to recognize that individual, organization, school club or business for their greening efforts to help create a greener, healthier Burlington!

On November 30, 2011, BurlingtonGreen celebrated it's 4th "birthday" by hosting our Annual General Meeting with a focus on renewable energy and community power. Keynote Mayor Rick Goldring provided the audience with an update on the City's Community Energy Strategic Plan initiative and representatives from event sponsor:  Hamilton Halton Energy Awareness Team (H.H. E. A. T.) provided an engaging presentation about the H.H.E.A.T. initiative and how the citizens of Burlington can participate in a renewable energy co-operative locally. 

Left to Right: BG President: Ken Woodruff, Executive Director: Amy Schnurr, Mayor Rick Goldring

• 25 tires
• 85 kg of metal was recycled
• 200 kg recyclables
• 2 Green totes with compostable paper coffee cups & dirty newspapers
• 12 bags of yard waste
• plus....."More recyclables & GreenCart waste was also diverted from the landfill as school Clean Ups had their recyclables/GreenCart waste picked up with their regular school collection as did some smaller groups who put out collected green/blue waste at their curbs."

 

  

  

Thank you Nelson Ravine Rats !

 

 

 

  

• Staples
• EcoChefs
• Goodness Me !

Hamilton Halton Energy Awareness Team (HHEAT) is a new project under HERE! Halton Enablers of Renewable Energy. HEN is partnering with Environment Hamilton to promote ways to enable everyone to participate in renewable energy projects and the Green Energy Act.

Thanks to an education grant from the Community Energy Partnerships Program, they are working with communities across Halton and Hamilton to assist them in starting community power projects.

The project started August 1, 2011. The intent is to create awareness about renewable energy and its connection to community power. Their goal is to work within local hub areas through educational initiatives and guidance via resources across Hamilton and Halton regions.

Visit HHEAT for more information on this great opportunity to participate in creating a greener future.