April 21, 2012 Community Cleanup Greenup Planning Committee

BurlingtonGreen will again coordinate Burlington’s annual Cleanup Greenup in 2012. The Cleanup is the largest collective clean up of the city. The Greenup involves the restoration of a selected habitat removing litter, invasive non-native plant species and potentially planting native species. Individuals, groups, schools and businesses participate in the week leading up to Earth Day. Everything culminates with a free eco-celebration BBQ at City Hall for volunteers and participants.

We are currently forming our Planning Committee and supporting teams. This is a fun and very rewarding opportunity. If you want to help, contact us indicating if you have a particular interest in any of the following:

• Promotions
• Eco-Celebration at City Hall
• Cleanup Coordination
• Sponsorship
• School Participation
• Business Participation

Together we CAN make a difference !

Nominations are now being accepted for BurlingtonGreen's Board of Directors!

 Learn more about this great opportunity here

BurlingtonGreen Local Food and Urban Agriculture                                         

 There are several areas related to the Go Local Food Network we'd love your help with:  

• Advocate for the inclusion of urban agriculture and local food security policies in the City's Offical Plan review and at Halton Region
• Participate at local public events with the Go Local Food display
• Provide content for the Go Local Food Network web pages
• Plant, maintain and help harvest the Growing Roots demonstration gardens at the new Central Park Community Garden that BurlingtonGreen is managing
• Provide "How To" expertise and resources for the Growing Roots web pages, related workshops and on site monthly meetings

 Biodiversity Committee
As a member of the Biodiversity Committee, you'll have a variety of options to participate in fun and rewarding habitat restoration activities. In addition to restoration activities like invasive species removal and native species planting, there are some fun opportunities for outreach and education too! International Biodiversity Day on May 22 is our flagship event each year and we are always looking for volunteers to help celebrate this day with hands-on ACTION! Evergreen has kindly funded a BurlingtonGreen restoration project located at Lasalle Park and 2012 will include continued restoration work including 1 or 2 popular planting days. Contact us if you'd like to sign up for our Biodiversity Committee!

BurlingtonGreen Eco-teams....

While all environmental topics are interrelated, to support a co-ordinated approach for our many Awareness, Advocacy & Action activities, BurlingtonGreen supports a number of "Eco-teams" that focus on specific topics and campaigns.  We are currently looking for volunteers to support each of our teams. Each Eco-team meets once a month to review  community inquiries, government policy & planning, outreach and event support pertaining to the team's subject area.

Experience/knowledge in the subject areas is an asset but not a requirement. A strong interest in working collaboratively to achieve common objectives to help the planet locally IS a requirement.

Please contact us today and let us know which of the following teams you would like to learn more about. You can volunteer on more than one eco-team if you like as well!

• Zero-waste eco-team
• Water protection and conservation eco-team
• Air & Transportation eco-team
• Renewable Energy eco-team
• Land Use Planning eco-team (greenspace protection, development issues, biodiversity,local food security)

 * Fundraising team: to support and sustain all of the important efforts of BurlingtonGreen, a dedicated team is currently being established and WE NEED YOUR HELP. If you or someone you know has some experience in helping to raise funds and/or sales, we want to hear from you! Being a part of this team effort is an important and rewarding, networking opportunity.

Contact us today. 

Events team

BurlingtonGreen hosts a number of important events each year to support our mandate to heighten environmental awareness at the community level.  Doing so will encourage a stronger committment to protect the health of the environment.

Our events are fun, engaging and each includes an ACTION component where attendees are encouraged to direct their learning into positive action efforts in the community.

Members of our events team help with one or more of the following areas to achieve event success: event promotion, sponsorship, registration, communications, set-up, clean-up & event greening.

Our annual events include:

• Eco-film festival (5 events per year)
• Youth Environmental Conference
• 2012 Eco-Awards Celebration
• Annual AGM (annual general meeting)
• April Community Clean-up Green-up (see above)
• May 22 International Biodiversity Day

 Contact us here to get involved!

More volunteer opportunities to support BurlingtonGreen...... 

Website Support:

• time committment - regular
• great opportunity to support BurlingtonGreen from your home computer!
• experience with website software (i.e.Joomla Content Management System) see: http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html
• assist webmaster with regular email updates, event postings, enhancements, ongoing site maintenance needs

Membership/Public Relations:

• time committment- periodic or regular
• "staff" BG booth at various Halton events
• assist with the membership drive program (membership outreach, program improvements etc)

Communications/Media Relations assistance:

• time committment - periodic or regular
• writing & editing of press releases, articles, newsletters
• public speaking engagements (optional)

Your gift of time, energy and ability is welcomed and appreciated at BurlingtonGreen. Contact us today.

Together we CAN make a difference.