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Members | Green Communities Canada

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Positive Action Today for a Green and Healthy Future. What we work on. To find the Green Community in your area click on the map or check our member listing below. Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley. E Melanie Watt, Ph.D., Executive Director. 210, 600 9th St. Email: Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley. Areni Kelleppan, Executive Director. 100-301 14th Street NW, . Tel: (403) 230-1443 x 222. Peter Sundberg, Executive Director. 220 – 620 View Street. Tel: (250) 381-9995 or Toll Free: 1 866 381 9995.

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Blog | Green Communities Canada | Positive Action Today for a Green and Healthy Future

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Positive Action Today for a Green and Healthy Future. What we work on. Groundbreakers aims to keep basements dry. August 15, 2016. MPP Sophie Kiwala and Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson planted together at the project launch. GREEN COMMUNITIES Canada’s RAIN Community Solutions program. Red Squirrel launched its project in July in the Kingscourt neighbourhood, an area with shallow soil and bedrock close to the surface that prevents water from sinking into the ground. Along with partners Kingscourt Community ...

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Community Groups | RAIN Community Solutions

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Is stormwater a high priority in your organization? Are you looking for training, tools, funding and support to help your organization take an enhanced role in promoting ecological solutions to stormwater issues in your community? Bring the RAIN Program to your community. RAIN Community Solutions works with community-based environmental organizations like yours, to develop customized plans to address local stormwater issues and priorities. Workbees that transform unused pavement into greenspace. Photo: A...

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News | RAIN Community Solutions

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The Umbrella Stormwater Bulletin. Rain gardens blooming across North America. Oct 19, 2016. Photo: A mature rain garden in North Bay, Ontario (Source: http:/ www.raingardentour.ca/ontario.html. With all the benefits this simple green infrastructure provides it is no surprise a growing number of North American cities are supporting the installation of rain gardens. The City of Calgary has created three large demonstration. Since 1996, Maplewood has installed over 700 boulevard rain gardens maintained by h...

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Rain Community Solutions | Helping Municipalities and Property Owners Manage Rain Where it Falls

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L’histoire des eaux pluviales. A l’epreuve de la pluie. RAIN Community Solutions ( Solutions communautaires à la gestion de la pluie) aide les collectivités à gérer la pluie là où elle tombe dans le but d’économiser de l’argent, de réduire les risques d’inondation, et de protéger notre eau. Pour en savoir davantage sur ce que vous pouvez faire et comment nous pouvons vous aider:. Je travaille au sein d’une. Je fais partie d’un a. Nos programmes sont utiles. Pour épargner de l’argent. La réduction de la p...

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Projects and Initiatives | SNAP

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June 23, 2016. Green Home Program 2015 (County Court SNAP). April 03, 2015. Earn Prizes for Green Home Actions. If you’ve made upgrades to your home, let us know and receive prizes. How? Which actions you have done (*below). To submit your actions. Your prize once you have submitted your information. GHP Actions 2010-2014 Submission Form. GHP Actions 2015 Submission Form. Other ways to let us know what you have done:. Come out to one of our Coffee Night meetings (see below for the Coffee Night Schedule).

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dandelions and concrete: July 2014

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. An East York woman is saving the salamanders of cottage country, rescuing them from local trails and raising them in her backyard. Carolyn Forbes, 28, says she has collected about 350 yellow and blue-spotted salamander egg sacs, each with the possibility of hatching between 20 and 50 babies, from ditches and dips in local roads near her Highlands cottage near Bancroft. Link to Toronto Star News Article. Posted by Urban Girl. Links to this post. Sunday, July 27, 2014. Wilderness ...

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The Stormwater Story | RAIN Community Solutions

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The story of stormwater. Most of us don’t give rain a second thought – unless we’ve got too much or too little, but rain is becoming a big problem. Thanks to climate change, extreme weather and ever-increasing paved areas, it’s going to get a lot worse. It is imperative that we do something to change the urban landscape and the way rainwater is currently managed. What happens when it rains? Property damage from the 8 July 2013 storm in Toronto reached over $850 million. After the June 2013 storm in s...

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Property Owners | RAIN Community Solutions

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Keep your basement dry, be a good neighbour, and use rain as a resource. As a property owner you want to protect your most valuable asset from water-related damage. Damage from flooding or seepage can cost a bundle and is often not covered by insurance. Minimize flooding, reduce runoff. Your basement is a hole in the ground – it wants to fill up with water! Take action to keep the water out. Minimize flood risk for your neighbours. Protect your nearest water body (creek, river or lake). RAIN Community So...